Psion Conclave

Psion Conclave
Overview
Objectives:	Serve the will of Yirix & Amtec Cripple the command of the Last City and the Guardians Falsely serve the Witness and Calus Form a unitary Psion Nation
Commander(s):	Yirix Amtec (inferred) Otzot
Keep(s):	Scablands
Deployed:	European Dead Zone Sunken Cavern Meridian Bay
Affiliation:	Red Legion (infiltrated) Loyalists (infiltrated) Imperial Cabal (infiltrated) Shadow Legion (infiltrated)
At war with:	The Coalition Sol Collective
Allied with:	Cabal Deserters The Witness (temporarily)

"We are Amtec's vengeance …and while she struck from the sun, we strike from the shadow."

— Yirix and her Sister

The Psion Conclave, sometimes referred to as the Enclave, are a rebel faction of Psion and Cabal that operate in clandestine cells infiltrating the ranks of the Red Legion, Imperial Cabal, Loyalists and Shadow Legion; all seeking to achieve a united Psion state based around the ancestral worship of the Y-goblet dating back to ancient Pre-Cabal history.

They would seek retribution against the Guardians, their allies and the Last City; largely for their role in thwarting the Psion Flayers Niruul, Tazaroc and Ozletc when they nearly accomplished their objective with the Sundial. The conclave also sought vengeance for their remaining sister Amtec and her role during the Almighty Crisis.

The Conclave of Psion defectors initially sided with the Witness and its Black Fleet through its newly christened 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.

History

Origins

The initial inception and history of the Conclave are largely unknown, but it seems to exist 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. Their shared solidarity in creating a Psion nation freed of the Cabal Empire's influence led a council of four Psion Flayers of the Red Legion 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, Tazaroc and Niruul, saw the means to create a timeline that suited all their goals; fracturing time on Mercury into different past, present and future iterations. However, their efforts would be challenged by the Guardians of the Last City who came to assist Osiris in mending the time rift they caused and undo all their efforts. In a desperate ploy to challenge the Guardians, the three Flayer sisters would undergo a permanent metaconcert that melded all their minds and even bodies into a single entity: Inotam, Oblivion's Triune. During their mental merging, the three Psions met with their youngest sister, Amtec, and gave her their final instructions: to enact vengeance upon their enemies if they should fall.

The story of the sisters' 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, such as Yirix, to follow Amtec's call of vengeance against the Vanguard. Amtec herself would enact it in a desperate ploy by setting the derelict Almighty on a collision course with the Last City. Her gambit would be thwarted instead by the intervention of the Warmind Rasputin, using his orbital defense system to shoot 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 like-minded Psions and even several Cabal to her cause.

Shadow Operations

Conclave Members with a Vex Predicition Engine

"Ghaul was no fool."

"This is not his credit. Ghaul did not invent this technology, but we will learn from his 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 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. After amassing the information they had sought the conspirators aimed to destabilize the Guardians 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. 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 Crow and killed the Psion.

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 Grounds inside the Halphas Electus. 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. 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. 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 deserters and conspirators once more.

Vox Obscura

Qabix within the Psion Bunker on Mars

" Only one Psion alive would have such intimate knowledge of this. The traitor Yirix"

— Empress Caiatl

After Caiatl's unilateral emancipation of all Psions within the Empire, 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. 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 Guardian to assault the facility with air support from Amanda Holliday, stopping the transmission.

With the transmission shut down, Empress Caiatl finds that the broadcasts are comprised not of words but images, feelings and impressions. Using her Optuses, Caiatl can 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 search for the Leviathan and Calus, and once they do, they will inform Caiatl, with the empress promising that she will deal with her father herself.

About a week later, the Vanguard discovered 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 can 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 is 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 show the same message over and over again, flashing almost too quickly to perceive. However, Caiatl can deduce that the messages must be Psion divination, impressions of things yet to come. In them, Caiatl can see Neomuna besieged, 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. .

Members

Leadership

• Amtec (Fate Unknown)
• Yirix
• Otzot

Other Members

• Ba'aruk, Dissident
• Kargen, the Technocrat (Clone)
• Qabix, Insurgent
• Qalec
• Valir

Unique Forces

• Psion Spotter
• Psion Codewarden
• Psion Commander

Trivia

• The Psion Conclave may have been active long before Season of the Worthy.
• Due to the Conclave's goals, despite 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.

Gallery

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  Conspirator Assassin

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  A group of unknown Psion conspirators

List of appearances

• Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen (First mentioned)
  • Season of the Risen
  • The Final Shape