Editing Calael Bishop (section)

==Brotherwar==
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Following the Edict of Nikaea, Bishop felt betrayed and abandoned by many he had considered close allies. Je'she's choice to stand against Imperial use of psykers wounded him particularly deeply. He saw not a leader seeking to further the Emperor's will, but an appeaser kneeling to the whims of the maddened [[Kinnevail Kincaid]] in a vain attempt to soothe the bard's fury. Nevertheless, even if his brothers had lost his trust, he trusted that the Emperor had a plan, and would not have made such a ruling without ample cause. He fitted his sons with collars to restrict their psychic powers, returning to the conventional breaching strategies they had begun with so many years ago, and simply hoped the Edict would be lifted before greater tragedy befell them.
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That hope died when the Emperor fell on Ullanor. With the "Burned Prophet" consolidating more and more power, his tyranny and influence growing daily, the prospects of any future reversal of the Edict grew dim. The psychic legions all felt increasing pressure under the Imperial yoke, but the Vth alone had recourse to escape it.

The next few years would see the Astral Wardens slowly withdraw from Imperial space, retreating to familiar holdouts and working their way towards the warp storm that surrounded Providence. Employing the help of Rahman's intelligence assets, the Imperium's records of the safe paths through the maelstrom were destroyed or confounded. So it was that the Vth Legion was the first to secede from the Imperium.

Bishop had expected the V<sup>th</sup> would be alone in their rebellion, as realistically no other possessed a redoubt that could hope to avoid the Imperium's retribution. It might have been so, but Warmaster [[Jon-Frederic Aristide]] had gotten wind of the Wardens' movements and, anticipating Bishop's state of mind, intercepted the Lodestar hoping to dissuade him from secession. In a tense encounter on an asteroid base near the Ghoul Stars, the two met. Aristide, far more clever and eloquent than Bishop, delivered an expertly-prepared entreaty to his disillusioned brother. He had anticipated it would be difficult to sway the stubborn psyker,  but he had not expected Bishop's simple response, one that would burn in Aristide's mind all the way to the meeting at New Hope:

"If you truly believe Kincaid hears the Emperor's voice, then follow him."

Aristide proceeded to New Hope without Bishop, and would go on to declare formal secession from the excesses of Kincaid's growing ecclessiarchy, founding the Union Astartes with the worlds of the Astral Wardens, Nova Dragoons, Ussaran Liberators, Corsairs Gallant, Iron Guard, Dusk Phantoms and Pale Hounds. To Bishop's great surprise, his quiet mutiny found itself in the company of fully third of his brothers and their legions.

There was little time to celebrate, however. [[Mot Hadad]]  had prepared a segmentum-spanning ritual to precipitate the rise a new Chaos God and secure the power to fill the Emperor's place as the Master of Mankind.

Bishop attended the attempted Sanction of Zharr-Hadad, hoping to talk sense into his brother- while Mot was surly, the two had developed a surprising rapport over the Crusade, and Calael was certain Mot's wanton slaughter of so many worlds must have been the work of Daemonic influence rather than the will of the usually tidy beurocrat. The Lodestar's words were in vain, and Mot began his ascension to Daemon Princehood with the rise of Hashut, Lord of Avarice. Bishop and his brothers were forced to retreat, the Wardens covering their escape. The losses the V<sup>th</sup> suffered at the Sanction were greater than they had seen in any single previous engagement.

As the Union Astartes developed, Aristide's ideology of posthuman supremacy saw Providence significantly refurbished to play host to the newly-founded Collegium Astronomica, an education center for the Union's prized psykers that took advantage of the oasis of warp-calm surrounding the Hulk to ease training and minimize perils. Bishop was awestruck by the transformation his homeland had underwent from the harsh survivalist frontier he had grown up upon, and eagerly threw his full support behind the burgeoning Union. In addition to assisting with the training of new psykers for service in the Union's government, the V<sup>th</sup> took a special interest in their acquisition- especially by raiding the Imperium's Black Ships, spiriting away those fated to join the Golden Throne's choir. Calael largely recused himself from politicking between the states, having little confidence in his judgment after Zharr-Hadad. He focused his efforts primarily on the place of psykers within their developing society, and the prosecution of the ongoing conflict with the Imperium of Man.

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