Editing Psion Conclave

|objectives= Serve the will of Yirix & Amtec<ref name="Palindrome">'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Weapon|Weapon Lore]]: [[The Palindrome]]''</ref><br> Cripple the command of the [[Last City]] and the [[Guardians]]<br> Falsely serve the [[The Witness|Witness]] and [[Emperor Calus|Calus]] <br> Form a unitary Psion Nation<ref name="Vox Obscura 3rd Week">'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Risen]] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FbYrH86UBI Kill the Messenger {{!}} Vox Obscura: Third Infiltration]''</ref>  

|war= [[The Coalition]] <br> [[Sol Collective]]

|ally= [[Cabal Deserters]] <br> [[The Witness]]

{{Quote|We are Amtec's vengeance …and while she struck from the sun, we strike from the shadow.|[[Yirix]]}}

They would seek retribution against the [[Guardian]]s, their [[The Coalition|allies]] and the [[Last City]]; largely for their role in thwarting the [[Psion Flayer]]s [[Niruul, the Hollow Voice|Niruul]], [[Tazaroc, the Sun Eater|Tazaroc]] and [[Ozletc, the Sky Piercer|Ozletc]] when they nearly accomplished their objective with the Sundial.<ref name="Vox Obscura 3rd Week"/> The conclave also sought vengeance for their remaining sister [[Amtec]] and her role during the [[The Almighty Crisis|Almighty Crisis]].<ref name="Palindrome"/>

The Conclave of Psion defectors initially sided with the [[The Witness|Witness]] and its [[Black Fleet]] through its newly christened [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]] [[Emperor Calus]] and his [[Shadow Legion]] as intermediaries. Their loyalty, however, was later proven dubious by [[Micah-10]] as they sought its favor only to fuel their own self interests.{{citation needed}}

===Rise to Prominence ===

The initial inception and history of the conclave remains largely unknown, but exists in the mutual congress among a majority of Psions in different Cabal legions and is inferred to have existed long before the events of the Almighty Crisis.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Captain's Log#ENTRY 3 - Lust and Reappropriation Pt. II|Captain's Log: ENTRY 3 - Lust and Reappropriation Pt. II]]''</ref> Their shared solidarity in creating a Psion nation freed of the [[Cabal Empire]]'s influence lead a [[Red Legion]] council of [[Psion Flayer]]s to seek out the [[Infinite Forest]] on [[Mercury]], hoping to find a simulated future of their vision. Instead they found the [[Sundial]], built by [[Osiris]] to navigate the [[Corridors of Time]]. In the device the three sisters: [[Ozletc, the Sky Piercer|Ozletc]], [[Tazaroc, the Sun Eater|Tazaroc]] and [[Niruul, the Hollow Voice|Niruul]], saw the means to create a timeline that suited all their goals; fracturing time on Mercury into different past, present and future iterations.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]], Playstation 4, [[Weblore]]: [[Weblore:Season_of_Dawn#Sisters|Sisters]]''</ref> Their efforts would be challenged by the Guardians of the Last City, however, as Osiris called for their assistance to mend the time rift they caused and undo all their efforts. In a desperate ploy to challenge the Guardians, the three Flayer sisters undergone a permanent metaconcert that melded all their minds and even bodies into a single entity: [[Inotam, Oblivion's Triune]]. During their mental mergence, the three Psions had met with their youngest [[Amtec]] and gave her their final instructions: to enact vengeance upon their enemies if they should fall.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]], Playstation 4, [[Weblore]]: [[Weblore:Season_of_Dawn#Joining|Joining]]''</ref>

The story of the sisters' near-attempt at creating a freed Psion civilization with the Sundial and their subsequent defeat would spread amongst the rank-and-file of the Psions, inspiring several including Yirix to follow in Amtec's call of vengeance against the [[Vanguard]].<ref name="Palindrome"/> Amtec herself would enact it in a desperate ploy by setting the derelict ''[[Almighty]]'' on a collision course with the Last City.<ref>https://www.bungie.net/7/en/seasons/seasonoftheworthy</ref> Her gambit would be thwarted instead by the intervention of the [[Warmind]] [[Rasputin]], using his orbital defense system to shot down the massive superweapon before it reached the city. Amtec's fate afterwards is unclear, but Yirix would continue to carry out their mission onward in her name; rallying other likeminded Psions and even several Cabal to her cause.<ref name="Palindrome"/>

{{Quote|This is not his credit. Ghaul did not invent this technology, but we will learn from his [[Red War|failure]].|Yirix to her Sister}}

The conclave of Psions would meddle in secrecy before acting in the cover of [[Empress Caiatl]]'s advent to the system. Understanding the inability to destroy [[The Last City]], [[Yirix]] would instead seek crippling of its leadership in Amtec's name. These same ideas would coincide with the ravings of [[Ixel, the Far-Reaching]] and even influence the mind of [[Ignovun, Chosen of Caiatl]]. Gathering fellow conspirators under her, Yirix and the cell worked in secret - dispatching members to [[Nessus]] in the [[Battlegrounds|hopes]] of harnessing the [[Vex]] Prediction Engines to assist them in their goal. Acting on Ixel's foretellings of the future where the Vanguard Commander [[Zavala]] suffered a final death, three Psions snuck into the Last City and stole remnants of the [[Traveler Cage]] from a [[Häkke]] facility.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Weapon|Weapon Lore]]: [[Salvager's Salvo]]''</ref> After amassing the information they had sought the conspirators aimed to destabilize the [[Guardian]]s and their leadership, using the refined Light-Extraction and Detainment tech derived from [[Dominus Ghaul]] to achieve so after having tested it repeatedly in the field.<ref name="Palindrome"/><ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/the-crow-challengers-proving-iv</ref> The conspirators first sent a lone assassin into the Last City to slay Zavala in a garden while he was distracted, but he was warned of the assailant by [[Uldren Sov|Crow]] and killed the Psion.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Haunted]]''</ref>

Challenged to a Rite of ceremonial combat after weeks of conflict, Caiatl would send forth Ignovun as her anointed representative, along with a bulk of Imperial loyal Red Legion, to challenge the chosen Champion of The Last City in the [[Proving Ground|Proving Grounds]] inside the [[Halphas Electus]].<ref>https://youtu.be/7CSU_B7HwD4</ref><ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/interactions/war-table-challengers-proving-3?highlight=ancient+rites</ref> Taking place after the aforementioned Rite, Yirix sent [[Qalec]] and [[Valir]] to try again at a ceremony marking the beginning of an armistice between the Cabal Empire and the Vanguard. The second assassination attempt was close to success, but Crow once again interfered and saved Zavala's life with the aid of Empress Caiatl who slew Valir in the attempt. <ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Proving Ground]]''</ref> Dispatching one of her [[Imperial Guard]] to seize the other who pulled the trigger, Qalec was captured and executed by Caiatl who vowed to hunt down and exterminate the rest of the Psion conspiracy as traitors to the Empire.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[H.E.L.M.]] Radio Message: [[H.E.L.M.#Qalec's_Execution|Qalec's Execution]]''</ref> After Ignovun's defeat in the Proving Grounds and the armistice, Caiatl would lose a lot of support, despite the honorable rite, and several Cabal dissidents of the Red Legion defected, swelling the ranks of the [[Cabal Deserters|deserters]] and conspirators once more.<ref>https://youtu.be/otPbHX-YJng</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJYMwZBFZTo</ref>

{{Quote| Only one Psion alive would have such intimate knowledge of this. The traitor Yirix|[[Empress Caiatl]]}}<ref>https://youtu.be/JWny5cNtr34</ref>

After Caiatl's unilateral emancipation of all Psions within the Empire,<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]] - [[Lore]]: [[Lore:Empress#CHAPTER_8:_EMPRESS|Empress: CHAPTER 8: EMPRESS]]''</ref> some Psions who had attained high rank under the old order were indignant at what they perceived to be their loss of status. During the events of ''[[The Witch Queen]]'', a group of these rebellious Psions led by [[Qabix, Insurgent]] deserted from the Imperial Cabal, stole a [[Cabal frigate]], and somehow made contact with the Loyalists of Emperor Calus.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Ghost shell|Ghost Shell Lore]]: [[Coalition Shell]]''</ref> With Loyalist funding, the rebel Psions reactivated an abandoned Cabal base on the recently-returned [[Mars]] and began transmitting psionic propaganda across the Solar System from it. Detectable only to other Psions, the transmission encouraged further defections from Caiatl to join Calus and the [[Pyramids]] for  "salvation". Unwilling for Cabal soldiers to be seen attacking Psions, Empress Caiatl brought the matter to her ally, Commander Zavala of the [[Vanguard]], who deployed the [[The Guardian|Guardian]] to assault the facility with air support from [[Amanda Holliday]], stopping the transmission.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[The Witch Queen]] - [[Vox Obscura]]''</ref>

With the transmisison shut down, Empress Caiatl finds that the broadcasts are comprised not of words but images, feelings and impressions. Using her Optuses, Caiatl is able to see the message being transmitted, seeing a Psion at the head of a full Cabal Legion. Above them hovers a black Pyramid but behind them stands a towering golden statue. A statue of her father, the former Emperor Calus, with arms outstretched and beckoning. Caiatl can hear her father's voice promising refuge and salvation which leaves the Cabal Empress unnerved. Following this, the Guardian also finds a storage vault filled with golden treasures similar to those found on Calus' Leviathan leading Zavala to believe that Calus is funding the rebellion against Caiatl. In this, Zavala agrees to have the Vanguard conduct a search for the Leviathan and Calus, and once they do, they will inform Caiatl, with the empress promising that once they do, she will deal with her father herself.

About a week later, the Vanguard discover that the base had been reinforced quicker than anticipated, forcing them to travel back to the bunker and shut down the broadcasts again. After shutting down the broadcast, Caiatl looks into the message and, this time, sees a scene of violence, along with herself, realizing that what she is seeing is the failed attempt on Commander Zavala's life, through the eyes of the assassin, and the memory of his death at Caiatl's hands. From this message, Empress Caiatl is able to deduce that only one psion would be left alive to have such intimate knowledge of the event: the traitor [[Yirix]] and her enclave.

Now knowing the identity of their foe, the Vanguard works on disrupting her operations as much as possible, leading the Guardians to attack another base sending out psion propaganda that are eroding Caiatl's legions. The Guardians enter the bunker and battle with more defectors and possible clones funded by Calus. In the message, Caiatl can see a group of Psions conducting a religious ceremony, during a time before they were assimilated into the Cabal Empire, leading the empress to believe that Yirix is attempting to stir a sense of forgotten Psion unity, under the banners of Calus and the Black Fleet. The Empress would find this message ridiculous as the Psions had long subjugated such beliefs themselves before the Cabal conquered them.

The Guardian would return to storm the base after Yirix resumes to spread her messages amongst the Legions, leading tensions to run high amongst the Psions and defections to occur. With Calus's cloning operations in full swing, the loss of life is of no concern, regardless of how many times the base is taken or destroyed, as Caiatl would comment. After defeating the Insurgent Psion and shutting down the broadcast once more, Caiatl sees the latest of Yirix's messages, which shows the same message over and over again, flashing almost too quickly to perceive. However, Caiatl is able to deduce that the messages must actually be Psion divination, impressions of things yet to come. In them, Caiatl can see [[Neomuna]] besieged, [[Eramis|The Shipstealer]] revived, the Leviathan reborn and the Traveler itself infected with Darkness. With the death of the Psion within the Psisorium at Crow's hands and [[Saladin Forge]]'s approval into the Empress' [[War Council]], an entire cruiser defected from the Empress' fleet. <ref> https://youtu.be/YMYjGje4O0g </ref>.

*'''[[Amtec]]''' {{c|Fate Unknown}}

*[[Kargen, the Technocrat]] {{c|Clone}}

*Due to the Conclave's goals, spite for the emancipation of Psions and alignment with Calus, it is possible that Otzot may be involved. It is later confirmed in ''The Final Shape'' that their allegiance with the Witness was merely duplicitous in nature.

*''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]]'' {{Fm}}