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When the Light and Darkness began to fight with one another in the primordial state of reality, the final patterns which had dominated their previous "games" escaped into the nascent universe. The patterns manifested themselves within matter, influencing the chemistry within the cores of comets orbiting young stars. These comets then rained down on lifeless planets, and the molecules they carried developed into the first radiolaria. From this point forward, the Vex were driven to once more totally dominate the reality they found themselves in, though operating on "outdated" rules that did not account for the acausal powers of the Darkness or the Light.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Unveiling#Patternfall|Unveiling]]''</ref> | When the Light and Darkness began to fight with one another in the primordial state of reality, the final patterns which had dominated their previous "games" escaped into the nascent universe. The patterns manifested themselves within matter, influencing the chemistry within the cores of comets orbiting young stars. These comets then rained down on lifeless planets, and the molecules they carried developed into the first radiolaria. From this point forward, the Vex were driven to once more totally dominate the reality they found themselves in, though operating on "outdated" rules that did not account for the acausal powers of the Darkness or the Light.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Shadowkeep]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Unveiling#Patternfall|Unveiling]]''</ref> | ||
The rest of the Vex's evolutionary history is a matter of speculation, but [[Clovis Bray I]] hypothesized some likely intermediate steps during his studies of the Vex structures around [[2082 Volantis]]. In particular, he suggested that Vex radiolaria began as radiotrophic, colonial microbes that coordinated via [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence swarm intelligence]. Vex colonies formed self-replicating "patterns" capable of collectively performing cognition and storing information. The first Vex "chassis" was likely a sac composed of hydrogel or silica plating, which would have initially served to guard radiolaria colonies against radiation and dehydration. The level of cooperation necessary to create these precursor-chassis would gradually be refined into the development of larger and more complicated structures, and the knowledge of how to create those structures would be encoded in the pattern of the colony | The rest of the Vex's evolutionary history is a matter of speculation, but [[Clovis Bray I]] hypothesized some likely intermediate steps during his studies of the Vex structures around [[2082 Volantis]]. In particular, he suggested that Vex radiolaria began as radiotrophic, colonial microbes that coordinated via [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence swarm intelligence]. Vex colonies formed self-replicating "patterns" capable of collectively performing cognition and storing information. The first Vex "chassis" was likely a sac composed of hydrogel or silica plating, which would have initially served to guard radiolaria colonies against radiation and dehydration. The level of cooperation necessary to create these precursor-chassis would gradually be refined into the development of larger and more complicated structures, and the knowledge of how to create those structures would be encoded in the pattern of the colony. All further Vex growth would be fractal outgrowths of this pattern, repeating itself endlessly from microscopic to macroscopic scales and becoming the foundation of the Vex "group mind". | ||
===The Ancient Past=== | ===The Ancient Past=== | ||