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Praedyth himself was forgotten until the time of the [[Taken War]], when the [[Taken]] began to blight the Vex network. After receiving a distress signal from Praedyth, [[The Guardian]] was sent to the Vault to investigate and was unexpectedly granted access by the Vex. Inside, the Guardian discovered a series of [[Dead Ghost]]s Praedyth had left behind. Praedyth revealed through recordings within the Ghosts that he had seen what the Vex had calculated would be their future: eons hence, they would be completely corrupted by the Taken, becoming an eternal part of the legacy of Oryx, the Taken King. Although the Vex were able to foresee this future and compelled to seek a way to avert it, they concluded that this grim fate was inevitable without the [[Light]]; allowing the Guardian to fight the Taken [[blight]] that plagued them was an act of desperation. Traveling through a portal, the Guardian was transported to the Vex's future, where the blight was defeated, the Vex were spared from their fate, and Praedyth's remains and Ghost were recovered. Despite this moment of cooperation, however, the Vex still had no intention of returning the favor or sparing [[the Last City]].<ref name = "Destiny"/>

[[File:DTK Seditious Mind.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Seditious Mind]], one of many Axis Minds Taken.]]

On Mars, the Vex (under the [[Virgo Prohibition]]) waged an intense war with the [[Cabal]], who managed to repel the machines despite the vast numbers of them that continually assaulted Cabal positions.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]</ref> The reason for this massive, if ineffective, offensive against the Cabal is that the Vex were surging to protect the [[Black Garden]],<ref name = 'A Rising Tide'/> which the Vex are being summoned to for an unknown purpose. Guardians who succeeded in breaking into the Black Garden discovered that the Vex in fact ~~worshiped~~ an entity within the Garden known as the [[Black Heart]], an aspect of the [[Darkness]] that had lent power to the Vex.<ref name = "Destiny"/> Even after the destruction of the Sol Progeny and the Black Heart, the Vex sought to control the Black Garden and pull it back out of space and time. Besides the Black Heart, the Vex may have another connection with the Darkness; [[Osiris]] speculated that Vex structures such as the Timekeeper are designed to activate in the presence of the Darkness.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Crucible Arenas#Timekeeper|Timekeeper]]''</ref>

On Mars, the Vex (under the [[Virgo Prohibition]]) waged an intense war with the [[Cabal]], who managed to repel the machines despite the vast numbers of them that continually assaulted Cabal positions.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]''</ref> The reason for this massive, if ineffective, offensive against the Cabal is that the Vex were surging to protect the [[Black Garden]],<ref name = 'A Rising Tide'/> which the Vex are being summoned to for an unknown purpose. Guardians who succeeded in breaking into the Black Garden discovered that the Vex in fact worshipped an entity within the Garden known as the [[Black Heart]], an aspect of the [[Darkness]] that had lent power to the Vex.<ref name = "Destiny"/> Even after the destruction of the Sol Progeny and the Black Heart, the Vex sought to control the Black Garden and pull it back out of space and time. Besides the Black Heart, the Vex may have another connection with the Darkness; [[Osiris]] speculated that Vex structures such as the Timekeeper are designed to activate in the presence of the Darkness.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Crucible Arenas#Timekeeper|Timekeeper]]''</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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{{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>

On Nessus, the Red Legion had begun drilling into [[The Inverted Spire]], hoping to study and utilize [[Protheon, Modular Mind]] as a weapon but the Vex responded violently, causing a warzone to break out near the drilling sites. The Vanguard found out about the legion's efforts and sent in Guardians to destroy Protheon before the Red Legion could capture the Vex Mind. After fighting through Vex and Cabal forces, the Guardians descended into the Inverted Spire and faced off against the Vex entity. Despite its firepower and altering the battlefield, the Guardians succeeded in destroying Protheon, depriving the Vex of an Axis Mind and the Cabal of a potential new weapon.

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After an exhausting campaign, the Guardians were successful in destroying all the copies of the Undying Mind. However, upon finally destroying the true Undying Mind, the timeways over Mercury became disrupted. As a result, access to the Vex timeways became available to other factions. Taking advantage of this, a council of [[Cabal]] [[Psion Flayers]] seek to assume control of the timeways to undo their defeat during the [[Red War]] and create a better future for themselves. Seeking to prevent this, [[Osiris]] emerges once more to organize the Guardians to prevent the Cabal from perverting the timeways, preserve their reality and possibly save a legend, [[Saint-14]].

During the past, after Saint-14’s last mission to find Osiris and prior to the Guardian's awakening, the Vex, in their desperate attempt to kill Saint-14, built [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]] at [[Infinity's Siphon]], specifically designed to kill the legendary Titan by draining him of his Light. However, the Martyr Mind would get into a skirmish with the Guardian who used [[~~The~~ Sundial]] to travel through time to save Saint-14. As a result of this distraction, the Martyr Mind would manage to detain the Guardian instead, but releasing Saint-14 in the process, where it would be destroyed by the Titan it was designed to stop.

During the past, after Saint-14’s last mission to find Osiris and prior to the Guardian's awakening, the Vex, in their desperate attempt to kill Saint-14, built [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]] at [[Infinity's Siphon]], specifically designed to kill the legendary Titan by draining him of his Light. However, the Martyr Mind would get into a skirmish with the Guardian who used [[the Sundial]] to travel through time to save Saint-14. As a result of this distraction, the Martyr Mind would manage to detain the Guardian instead, but releasing Saint-14 in the process, where it would be destroyed by the Titan it was designed to stop.

Due to the Guardian's actions, Agioktis, Martyr Mind failed in its specific purpose to kill Saint-14, thus changing the course of time where Saint-14 never died and bringing him to the present.

===Seraph Towers===

With the failure to control Vex timeways with the Sundial, the Red Legion, under the leadership of the Psion Flayer [[Amtec]], enacted a last resort plan to crash the warship known as ''[[the Almighty]]'' into the Last City. To stop ''the Almighty'' in its tracks, Guardians began arming the Warmind [[Rasputin]] on Earth, the Moon, and Io. Operations on Io attracted the attention of Vex forces, much to the chagrin of [[Asher Mir]], who would complain to [[Ana Bray]] about "stirring up" the Vex. In addition, Vex responsible for machine conversion managed to excavate their way into the [[Seraph Bunker]] outside the Pyramidion, requiring it to be cleared out frequently for Rasputin to maintain a connection to it.

===Arrival===

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 Praedyth himself was forgotten until the time of the [[Taken War]], when the [[Taken]] began to blight the Vex network. After receiving a distress signal from Praedyth, [[The Guardian]] was sent to the Vault to investigate and was unexpectedly granted access by the Vex. Inside, the Guardian discovered a series of [[Dead Ghost]]s Praedyth had left behind. Praedyth revealed through recordings within the Ghosts that he had seen what the Vex had calculated would be their future: eons hence, they would be completely corrupted by the Taken, becoming an eternal part of the legacy of Oryx, the Taken King. Although the Vex were able to foresee this future and compelled to seek a way to avert it, they concluded that this grim fate was inevitable without the [[Light]]; allowing the Guardian to fight the Taken [[blight]] that plagued them was an act of desperation. Traveling through a portal, the Guardian was transported to the Vex's future, where the blight was defeated, the Vex were spared from their fate, and Praedyth's remains and Ghost were recovered. Despite this moment of cooperation, however, the Vex still had no intention of returning the favor or sparing [[the Last City]].<ref name = "Destiny"/>
 [[File:DTK Seditious Mind.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Seditious Mind]], one of many Axis Minds Taken.]]
-On Mars, the Vex (under the [[Virgo Prohibition]]) waged an intense war with the [[Cabal]], who managed to repel the machines despite the vast numbers of them that continually assaulted Cabal positions.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]</ref> The reason for this massive, if ineffective, offensive against the Cabal is that the Vex were surging to protect the [[Black Garden]],<ref name = 'A Rising Tide'/> which the Vex are being summoned to for an unknown purpose. Guardians who succeeded in breaking into the Black Garden discovered that the Vex in fact worshiped an entity within the Garden known as the [[Black Heart]], an aspect of the [[Darkness]] that had lent power to the Vex.<ref name = "Destiny"/> Even after the destruction of the Sol Progeny and the Black Heart, the Vex sought to control the Black Garden and pull it back out of space and time. Besides the Black Heart, the Vex may have another connection with the Darkness; [[Osiris]] speculated that Vex structures such as the Timekeeper are designed to activate in the presence of the Darkness.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Crucible Arenas#Timekeeper|Timekeeper]]''</ref>
+On Mars, the Vex (under the [[Virgo Prohibition]]) waged an intense war with the [[Cabal]], who managed to repel the machines despite the vast numbers of them that continually assaulted Cabal positions.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Virgo_Prohibition|Virgo Prohibition]]''</ref> The reason for this massive, if ineffective, offensive against the Cabal is that the Vex were surging to protect the [[Black Garden]],<ref name = 'A Rising Tide'/> which the Vex are being summoned to for an unknown purpose. Guardians who succeeded in breaking into the Black Garden discovered that the Vex in fact worshipped an entity within the Garden known as the [[Black Heart]], an aspect of the [[Darkness]] that had lent power to the Vex.<ref name = "Destiny"/> Even after the destruction of the Sol Progeny and the Black Heart, the Vex sought to control the Black Garden and pull it back out of space and time. Besides the Black Heart, the Vex may have another connection with the Darkness; [[Osiris]] speculated that Vex structures such as the Timekeeper are designed to activate in the presence of the Darkness.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Activities/Crucible Arenas#Timekeeper|Timekeeper]]''</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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 {{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>
 On Nessus, the Red Legion had begun drilling into [[The Inverted Spire]], hoping to study and utilize [[Protheon, Modular Mind]] as a weapon but the Vex responded violently, causing a warzone to break out near the drilling sites. The Vanguard found out about the legion's efforts and sent in Guardians to destroy Protheon before the Red Legion could capture the Vex Mind. After fighting through Vex and Cabal forces, the Guardians descended into the Inverted Spire and faced off against the Vex entity. Despite its firepower and altering the battlefield, the Guardians succeeded in destroying Protheon, depriving the Vex of an Axis Mind and the Cabal of a potential new weapon.
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 After an exhausting campaign, the Guardians were successful in destroying all the copies of the Undying Mind. However, upon finally destroying the true Undying Mind, the timeways over Mercury became disrupted. As a result, access to the Vex timeways became available to other factions. Taking advantage of this, a council of [[Cabal]] [[Psion Flayers]] seek to assume control of the timeways to undo their defeat during the [[Red War]] and create a better future for themselves. Seeking to prevent this, [[Osiris]] emerges once more to organize the Guardians to prevent the Cabal from perverting the timeways, preserve their reality and possibly save a legend, [[Saint-14]].
-During the past, after Saint-14’s last mission to find Osiris and prior to the Guardian's awakening, the Vex, in their desperate attempt to kill Saint-14, built [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]] at [[Infinity's Siphon]], specifically designed to kill the legendary Titan by draining him of his Light. However, the Martyr Mind would get into a skirmish with the Guardian who used [[The Sundial]] to travel through time to save Saint-14. As a result of this distraction, the Martyr Mind would manage to detain the Guardian instead, but releasing Saint-14 in the process, where it would be destroyed by the Titan it was designed to stop.
+During the past, after Saint-14’s last mission to find Osiris and prior to the Guardian's awakening, the Vex, in their desperate attempt to kill Saint-14, built [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]] at [[Infinity's Siphon]], specifically designed to kill the legendary Titan by draining him of his Light. However, the Martyr Mind would get into a skirmish with the Guardian who used [[the Sundial]] to travel through time to save Saint-14. As a result of this distraction, the Martyr Mind would manage to detain the Guardian instead, but releasing Saint-14 in the process, where it would be destroyed by the Titan it was designed to stop.
 Due to the Guardian's actions, Agioktis, Martyr Mind failed in its specific purpose to kill Saint-14, thus changing the course of time where Saint-14 never died and bringing him to the present.
+===Seraph Towers===
+With the failure to control Vex timeways with the Sundial, the Red Legion, under the leadership of the Psion Flayer [[Amtec]], enacted a last resort plan to crash the warship known as ''[[the Almighty]]'' into the Last City. To stop ''the Almighty'' in its tracks, Guardians began arming the Warmind [[Rasputin]] on Earth, the Moon, and Io. Operations on Io attracted the attention of Vex forces, much to the chagrin of [[Asher Mir]], who would complain to [[Ana Bray]] about "stirring up" the Vex. In addition, Vex responsible for machine conversion managed to excavate their way into the [[Seraph Bunker]] outside the Pyramidion, requiring it to be cleared out frequently for Rasputin to maintain a connection to it.
 ===Arrival===
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 ==Sociology==