Editing Astral Wardens (section)

==Reunion with their Gene-Sire==
By the time they met their Primarch, [[Calael Bishop]], the V<sup>th</sup> had become a sullen and beaten-down group, and yet the rapport with their gene-sire was instant. Bishop saw a kinship in this barely-trained mob of military castaways, and was swift to adopt them as though they were recent arrivals on his home-station of Providence. Harking back to the traditions of his adoptive home, one of this first actions was to see to the elevation of the Hellbenders to half-Astartes, and though all among the V<sup>th</sup> could see that these men were not the transhuman demigods that even the greenest marine was, their skill and discipline by comparison was beyond reproach. In the months to come, these men became the unbreakable spearhead that led the V<sup>th</sup> to their first unqualified victories. His methodology proven by the sudden and considerable turnaround in the legion's martial capability, Bishop's demand for the other heroes of Providence's Warden corps to be elevated to half-Astartes status was quickly granted, and the Primarch set them among the stunned, if now hopeful, rabble of the V<sup>th</sup> to teach them the way of the Shield, the Line, and of Brotherhood. 

The organization of the V<sup>th</sup> Legio Astartes soon came to resemble the Wardens of Providence more than their cousin legions structures, but their unorthodox doctrine found success in boarding actions, void combat, and the tight confines of hives, where the solid wall of shields often left the enemy incapable of doing much beyond dying in droves under the tightly-commanded volleys of boarding shotgun shell fire and carefully interlocking swings and stabs of blades. With these successes, the straggling legion finally found purpose in their existence, and a firm brotherhood in their half-brothers of Providence that they had lacked when serving with their cousin legions. In addition, while access to their Primarch's genetic code did not remove their geneseed's issues, it substantially reduced the negative effects, allowing the legion to at least grow incrementally even during campaigns, for the first time since before their founding. While the V<sup>th</sup> would always remain a small legion, slow to grow and slow to recover from catastrophe, their methodology and philosophy ensured was a reliable core for whom such losses were extremely rare, and thus the legion would never again risk the risk of disbandment due to low numbers. The Greenboots were no more- the V<sup>th</sup> Legion had been reborn as the Astral Wardens, heirs to the Breachers' code of Providence.