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===The Ancient Past=== | ===The Ancient Past=== | ||
[[File:Vex_Army.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The Vex invading Oryx's Throne, led by [[Quria, Blade Transform|Quria]]]] | [[File:Vex_Army.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The Vex invading Oryx's Throne, led by [[Quria, Blade Transform|Quria]]]] | ||
{{Quote|But the Vex? The Vex seek neither Light nor Darkness. They seek Convergence, the reduction of all life to its simplest, most meaningless form. An entelechy of zeros and ones.|Sister [[Faora]]}} | |||
The earliest historical event associated with the Vex is when the [[Hive]] god [[Crota, Son of Oryx]] opened a portal to a place where the Vex were present, hoping to find a secret power for himself. Instead, he allowed the Vex to invade [[Oryx, the Taken King]]'s throne world, the [[Dreadnaught|High War]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVIII:_The_partition_of_death|Books of Sorrow - The partition of death]]''</ref> At first unsuited to the Ascendant Realm and the rules governing its reality, the Vex quickly learned of the Hive's Sword-Logic, creating [[Quria, Blade Transform]] to investigate it. Through Quria, the Vex learned to achieve divinity by killing all who opposed them and adopting worship as a primary function. Though Oryx eventually succeeded in eliminating the Vex from his realm, they preserved what they learned and passed it on to the rest of the Vex hive mind.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XL:_An_Emperor_For_All_Outcomes|An Emperor For All Outcomes]]''</ref> Quria would later ambush Oryx when he attacked the [[Nicha Thought-ship]]. In the ensuing battle, Quria generated a simulation of Oryx's original form: Aurash. As Oryx was distracted by the simulation, Quria devoted the rest of its resources to sending what it had learned to the rest of the Vex hive mind. Quria was then [[Taken]] and given to his sister, [[Savathûn, the Witch-Queen| Savathûn]] as a gift, however, Oryx allowed Quria to retain a portion of its own will. | The earliest historical event associated with the Vex is when the [[Hive]] god [[Crota, Son of Oryx]] opened a portal to a place where the Vex were present, hoping to find a secret power for himself. Instead, he allowed the Vex to invade [[Oryx, the Taken King]]'s throne world, the [[Dreadnaught|High War]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVIII:_The_partition_of_death|Books of Sorrow - The partition of death]]''</ref> At first unsuited to the Ascendant Realm and the rules governing its reality, the Vex quickly learned of the Hive's Sword-Logic, creating [[Quria, Blade Transform]] to investigate it. Through Quria, the Vex learned to achieve divinity by killing all who opposed them and adopting worship as a primary function. Though Oryx eventually succeeded in eliminating the Vex from his realm, they preserved what they learned and passed it on to the rest of the Vex hive mind.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XL:_An_Emperor_For_All_Outcomes|An Emperor For All Outcomes]]''</ref> Quria would later ambush Oryx when he attacked the [[Nicha Thought-ship]]. In the ensuing battle, Quria generated a simulation of Oryx's original form: Aurash. As Oryx was distracted by the simulation, Quria devoted the rest of its resources to sending what it had learned to the rest of the Vex hive mind. Quria was then [[Taken]] and given to his sister, [[Savathûn, the Witch-Queen| Savathûn]] as a gift, however, Oryx allowed Quria to retain a portion of its own will. | ||
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====The Golden Age==== | ====The Golden Age==== | ||
[[File:Dendron_Root_Mind.jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[Dendron, Root Mind]]]] | [[File:Dendron_Root_Mind.jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[Dendron, Root Mind]]]] | ||
{{Quote|I have destroyed myself to do this. They have taken my Ghost. They are in my blood and brain. But now there is hope. [...] Now it is done. If I speak again, I am not Kabr.|[[Kabr, the Legionless]]<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Raids#Relic:_The_Aegis|Relic: The Aegis]]''</ref>}} | |||
During humanity's [[Golden Age]], Vex structures were found on [[Venus]] dating back to a few billion years before humanity's existence.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Ishtar Collective (mission)|Ishtar Collective]]''</ref> Ishtar researchers suspected that the Vex ruins came from an alternate Venus and came into being when the Traveler transformed Venus into a habitable world.<ref name="GFV4">'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost_Fragment:_Vex_4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref> | During humanity's [[Golden Age]], Vex structures were found on [[Venus]] dating back to a few billion years before humanity's existence.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Ishtar Collective (mission)|Ishtar Collective]]''</ref> Ishtar researchers suspected that the Vex ruins came from an alternate Venus and came into being when the Traveler transformed Venus into a habitable world.<ref name="GFV4">'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost_Fragment:_Vex_4|Ghost Fragment: Vex 4]]''</ref> | ||
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====The City Age==== | ====The City Age==== | ||
[[File:Atheon1.png|300px|right|thumb|[[Atheon]] standing at the [[Vault of Glass]]]] | [[File:Atheon1.png|300px|right|thumb|[[Atheon]] standing at the [[Vault of Glass]]]] | ||
{{Quote|They want me to send a message... The creatures will soon reach the heart of the Vault. When they do, they'll destroy the Vex. Once they [[Taken|take]] the Vex, they'll come for the Light.|[[Praedyth]]}} | |||
When the [[Guardian]]s [[Kabr, the Legionless]], [[Pahanin]], and [[Praedyth]] ventured into the [[Vault of Glass]] on Venus, a major confluence of the Vex network, they were thwarted by the [[Templar]] and its [[Gorgons]]. Pahanin managed to escape, but Kabr became assimilated and Praedyth was trapped and lost to time. The Guardians, seeking to further break the Vex's power in the wake of the Black Garden Heart's destruction and avenge Kabr's team, formed a new raid team to breach the Vault of Glass. After a dangerous struggle, the Guardians manage to breach the Templar's indestructible shield and destroy the Mind. Further, the Guardians evade the Gorgon's abilities and bypass their labyrinth, proceeding to the core of the Vault. At the center of the Vault, the Guardians face off against [[Atheon, Time's Conflux]], the Vault's overseer. Battling the powerful Axis Mind across the time-ways, the Guardians succeed in destroying Atheon, dealing a critical blow to the Vex. | When the [[Guardian]]s [[Kabr, the Legionless]], [[Pahanin]], and [[Praedyth]] ventured into the [[Vault of Glass]] on Venus, a major confluence of the Vex network, they were thwarted by the [[Templar]] and its [[Gorgons]]. Pahanin managed to escape, but Kabr became assimilated and Praedyth was trapped and lost to time. The Guardians, seeking to further break the Vex's power in the wake of the Black Garden Heart's destruction and avenge Kabr's team, formed a new raid team to breach the Vault of Glass. After a dangerous struggle, the Guardians manage to breach the Templar's indestructible shield and destroy the Mind. Further, the Guardians evade the Gorgon's abilities and bypass their labyrinth, proceeding to the core of the Vault. At the center of the Vault, the Guardians face off against [[Atheon, Time's Conflux]], the Vault's overseer. Battling the powerful Axis Mind across the time-ways, the Guardians succeed in destroying Atheon, dealing a critical blow to the Vex. | ||
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====The Taken War==== | ====The Taken War==== | ||
[[File:DTK Seditious Mind.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Seditious Mind]], one of many Axis Minds Taken.]] | [[File:DTK Seditious Mind.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Seditious Mind]], one of many Axis Minds Taken.]] | ||
{{Quote| | {{Quote|If the Taken are here in the Vault, they are at the heart of the Vex collective mind. Imagine—the machine-planets of the Vex surging with Taken power. This must not be, Guardian.|[[Ikora]]}} <ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Paradox]]''</ref> | ||
In recent times, the Vex had suffered numerous setbacks across the system - a large number of Vex Axis Minds were destroyed by Guardians, leaving the Vex network in disarray. With the arrival of the [[Taken]], attacks against the Vex had only escalated. The Vex have yet to counter these failures, though some believe the cybernetic machines have begun preparing countermeasures as [[Variks, the Loyal]] notes, following [[Skolas|Skolas']] defeat, "''[[Vex Sol Collective|Old machines]] are waking up''...".<ref>'''Bungie (2015-4-13)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Leadership#Skolas:_Defeated|Skolas Defeated]]''</ref> | In recent times, the Vex had suffered numerous setbacks across the system - a large number of Vex Axis Minds were destroyed by Guardians, leaving the Vex network in disarray. With the arrival of the [[Taken]], attacks against the Vex had only escalated. The Vex have yet to counter these failures, though some believe the cybernetic machines have begun preparing countermeasures as [[Variks, the Loyal]] notes, following [[Skolas|Skolas']] defeat, "''[[Vex Sol Collective|Old machines]] are waking up''...".<ref>'''Bungie (2015-4-13)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Fallen_Leadership#Skolas:_Defeated|Skolas Defeated]]''</ref> | ||
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====The Red War==== | ====The Red War==== | ||
[[File:Brakion.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Guardians engaging [[Brakion, Genesis Mind]]]] | [[File:Brakion.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Guardians engaging [[Brakion, Genesis Mind]]]] | ||
{{Quote|Some speculate that the radiolarian fluid is the last vestige of a biological life-form that became the Vex.|Sister Faora}} | |||
By the time of the [[Red War]], two years after the Taken War, the Vex had come under attack by the [[Fallen]] [[House of Dusk]] and the [[Cabal]] [[Red Legion]] on [[Io]], [[Mercury]], [[Mars]], and [[Nessus]]. Of note, on Mars the Red Legion quickly succeeded against the Vex where other Cabal legions had failed for decades: they destroyed the gate to the [[Black Garden]] and drove the Vex out of [[Meridian Bay]].<ref name="D2GS">'''Bungie (2017/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Console, Activision Blizzard - [[Ghost Scans]]''</ref> According to [[Cayde-6]], the Red Legion has brought even more of their might to bear on Mars than on Earth. With the gate to the Black Garden having been destroyed by the Red Legion, it is unknown if the Vex still have the means to access the Garden itself. It's possible the entrance from the [[Tharsis Junction]] still exists and the Garden is still accessible.<ref name="C6T">'''Bungie (2017/9/14)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Console, Activision Blizzard - [[Cayde-6]] dialogue: "You should see some of these reports I'm reading about Mars. And you thought the Cabal weren't messing around on Earth."''</ref> | By the time of the [[Red War]], two years after the Taken War, the Vex had come under attack by the [[Fallen]] [[House of Dusk]] and the [[Cabal]] [[Red Legion]] on [[Io]], [[Mercury]], [[Mars]], and [[Nessus]]. Of note, on Mars the Red Legion quickly succeeded against the Vex where other Cabal legions had failed for decades: they destroyed the gate to the [[Black Garden]] and drove the Vex out of [[Meridian Bay]].<ref name="D2GS">'''Bungie (2017/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Console, Activision Blizzard - [[Ghost Scans]]''</ref> According to [[Cayde-6]], the Red Legion has brought even more of their might to bear on Mars than on Earth. With the gate to the Black Garden having been destroyed by the Red Legion, it is unknown if the Vex still have the means to access the Garden itself. It's possible the entrance from the [[Tharsis Junction]] still exists and the Garden is still accessible.<ref name="C6T">'''Bungie (2017/9/14)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: Console, Activision Blizzard - [[Cayde-6]] dialogue: "You should see some of these reports I'm reading about Mars. And you thought the Cabal weren't messing around on Earth."''</ref> | ||
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====''Curse of Osiris''==== | ====''Curse of Osiris''==== | ||
[[File:Mercury_-_Panoptes_11.jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]] fighting [[Osiris]]]] | [[File:Mercury_-_Panoptes_11.jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[Panoptes, Infinite Mind]] fighting [[Osiris]]]] | ||
{{Quote|I never found Osiris, but I've killed enough Vex to end a war.|[[Saint-14]]}} | |||
Following the death of [[Dominus Ghaul]] and the reawakening of the [[Traveler]], Vex Minds began to call the modern Vex, [[Precursors]], and [[Descendants]] to [[Mercury]], in order to bring forth a dark future in which only they dominate all life and both Light and Darkness no longer exist, through the means of the [[Infinite Forest]]. This required the [[Vanguard]] to locate [[Osiris]], in the hopes of stopping them.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gjl690gN1s</ref> Despite her reservations, Ikora Rey, the former student of Osiris, gives her blessing to the mission and gains assistance from the Cult of Osiris. | Following the death of [[Dominus Ghaul]] and the reawakening of the [[Traveler]], Vex Minds began to call the modern Vex, [[Precursors]], and [[Descendants]] to [[Mercury]], in order to bring forth a dark future in which only they dominate all life and both Light and Darkness no longer exist, through the means of the [[Infinite Forest]]. This required the [[Vanguard]] to locate [[Osiris]], in the hopes of stopping them.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gjl690gN1s</ref> Despite her reservations, Ikora Rey, the former student of Osiris, gives her blessing to the mission and gains assistance from the Cult of Osiris. | ||