Brock, see this page.
The symptoms seems to be consistent with Acidovorax.
I would sugest to do nothing right now. Let's see if someone else, more experienced in diseases, gives another possible cause.
Thank you. I read through that page and a few others. I will try to find cattleya pictures of acidvorax. I will wait. I haven't isolated the plant. Theres a dendrobium stem that doesn't have a thing wrong with it. I started second guessing everything. I thought there was at least one cattleya bulb that was fine. The cattleya has fissures healed on the bulb some parts of the leaves all look old enough. Hopefully it is not fatal. It has a nice rhizome but I thought I saw black on it. But seems like normal dead sheath. I'll cut it down to one bulb or would i just remove leafs? As we wait what do you do with the infected tissue burn it?