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|homeworld=[[Black Garden]] (Place of Interest)<ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Legend:_The_Black_Garden|Legend: The Black Garden]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#On_the_Hunt|On the Hunt]]''</ref> <br> "[[2082 Volantis]]"<ref>[[Mysterious Logbook]] | |homeworld=[[Black Garden]] (Place of Interest)<ref>'''Bungie (2014-9-9)''', ''Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies#Legend:_The_Black_Garden|Legend: The Black Garden]]''</ref> <ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken (expansion)|Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The_Forsaken_Prince#On_the_Hunt|On the Hunt]]''</ref> <br> "[[2082 Volantis]]"<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "ENTRY 9", ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#-043-|Page 43]]''</ref> | ||
|focalworld(s)= [[Mars]] <br> [[Mercury]] <br> [[Venus]] <br> [[Nessus]] <br> [[Io]] <br> [[The Leviathan]] <br> [[Moon]] <br> [[Europa]] <br> [[Black Garden]] | |focalworld(s)= [[Mars]] <br> [[Mercury]] <br> [[Venus]] <br> [[Nessus]] <br> [[Io]] <br> [[The Leviathan]] <br> [[Moon]] <br> [[Europa]] <br> [[Black Garden]] | ||
|goals= Weave their way into the fabric of reality <br> Protect [[Nessus]] from the [[Red Legion]] <br> Unite on Mercury within the [[Infinite Forest]] | |goals= Weave their way into the fabric of reality <br> Protect [[Nessus]] from the [[Red Legion]] <br> Unite on Mercury within the [[Infinite Forest]] | ||
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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forward, the Vex were driven to once more totally dominate the reality they found themselves in, though operating on "outdated" rules that did not account for the acausal powers of the Darkness or the Light.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 [[wikipedia: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 enmeshed, specialized radiolaria that produced hydrogel or silica plating, which would have initially served to guard the rest of the colony against radiation and dehydration. Under this theory, 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, and this pattern would become the foundation of the Vex "group mind". Everything the Vex are and everything the Vex do (if any meaningful distinction exists between the two) is ultimately an outgrowth of this pattern.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', " | 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 [[wikipedia: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 enmeshed, specialized radiolaria that produced hydrogel or silica plating, which would have initially served to guard the rest of the colony against radiation and dehydration. Under this theory, 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, and this pattern would become the foundation of the Vex "group mind". Everything the Vex are and everything the Vex do (if any meaningful distinction exists between the two) is ultimately an outgrowth of this pattern.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "NOTE—FORGE STAR", ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#NOTE—FORGE STAR|NOTE—FORGE STAR]]''</ref> | ||
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{{quote|The Vex have no hope. No imagination, no drive, no fear. All they have is the Pattern. Everything must fit. If it can be made to fit, good. If it can't, it gets cut away.|[[Praedyth]]}}<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Paradox]]''</ref> | {{quote|The Vex have no hope. No imagination, no drive, no fear. All they have is the Pattern. Everything must fit. If it can be made to fit, good. If it can't, it gets cut away.|[[Praedyth]]}}<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]], PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Paradox]]''</ref> | ||
The ultimate goal of the Vex is to remake all of reality in their image. [[Praedyth]] described the Vex as being motivated by a "Pattern," which drives the Vex to either reshape or destroy everything in their path. [[Osiris]] referred to the Vex's objective as "Convergence," an outcome where all life in the universe has been converted to a simplified, digital form. According to [[Maya Sundaresh]], a universe ruled by the Vex would be one in which every star is collapsed into a black hole and every new universe created as a result similarly conquered, and their combined processing power used to simulate and conquer every possible past, and these simulated pasts used to host and invade additional simulations in infinite recursion.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', " | The ultimate goal of the Vex is to remake all of reality in their image. [[Praedyth]] described the Vex as being motivated by a "Pattern," which drives the Vex to either reshape or destroy everything in their path. [[Osiris]] referred to the Vex's objective as "Convergence," an outcome where all life in the universe has been converted to a simplified, digital form. According to [[Maya Sundaresh]], a universe ruled by the Vex would be one in which every star is collapsed into a black hole and every new universe created as a result similarly conquered, and their combined processing power used to simulate and conquer every possible past, and these simulated pasts used to host and invade additional simulations in infinite recursion.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "NOTE—ELISABETH'S PLEA", ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#NOTE—ELISABETH'S PLEA|NOTE—ELISABETH'S PLEA]]''</ref> As part of this ideal future, the Vex seek to bring about a state where neither the [[Light]] nor the [[Darkness]] exist any longer. The [[Vault of Glass]] on Venus serves as a testing ground for the Vex to manipulate reality through ontological means. | ||
In his studies of the Vex, [[Clovis Bray I]] noted that the Vex were so utterly adapted to survival and adaptation that any destructive input would automatically be used as a means to enable a self-correcting or reparatory response; an analogy he used was that, if a Vex unit were exposed to a fire, then the energy of that fire would be utilized in putting it out. This approach to existence permeates every aspect of the Vex, so much so that even their thoughts and language are intrinsically virulent when other minds and software are exposed to them.<ref name = "Mysterious Logbook Page 38"/> | In his studies of the Vex, [[Clovis Bray I]] noted that the Vex were so utterly adapted to survival and adaptation that any destructive input would automatically be used as a means to enable a self-correcting or reparatory response; an analogy he used was that, if a Vex unit were exposed to a fire, then the energy of that fire would be utilized in putting it out. This approach to existence permeates every aspect of the Vex, so much so that even their thoughts and language are intrinsically virulent when other minds and software are exposed to them.<ref name = "Mysterious Logbook Page 38"/> | ||