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===The Ancient Past===

[[File:Vex_Army.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The Vex invading Oryx's Throne, led by [[Quria, Blade Transform|Quria]]]]

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 name = "An Emperor For All Outcomes">'''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.

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> This massive, if ineffective, offensive against the Cabal was an effort by the Vex to bar entry to the [[Black Garden]], which the Vex were being summoned to for a then-unknown purpose. Upon successfully infiltrating the Black Garden, [[the Guardian]] discovered a collective of Vex dedicated to worshipping an entity within the Garden known as the [[Black Heart]], an aspect or construct of the [[Darkness]].<ref name = "Destiny"/> This seemingly-uncharacteristic behavior was later thought to have been as rational as everything the Vex do; they simply determined that worshiping the Heart would be the most advantageous course of action. This hypothesis was supported by the presence of the [[Sol Progeny]], a trio of Vex frames meant to serve as vessels for the Heart—and to use its power to further the ends of the Vex network.  

The destruction of the Heart had caused the Black Garden to become a part of normal spacetime, with several entryways on and beneath the surface of Mars. [[The Undying Mind]], an ancient Vex Hydra, would later attempt to seal the Garden away from normal spacetime once more, to secure it against further intrusion. Following the destruction of [[Crota]] on the [[Moon]], a strike team entered the Garden and destroyed the Mind, stopping its work—though, true to its name, it would eventually return.

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]].  

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.

===Radiolaria===

[[File:VexRadiolarian1.jpg |300px|thumb|right|A pool of Vex radiolaria]]

{{Quote|The Vex will not rest until every star has been crushed into a black hole and every newborn cosmos filled with more Vex. And in the unending array of their enslaved cosmos, they will simulate all possible pasts, and fill those with Vex, so that all things that have ever lived or might ever live will experience infestation and consumption and torment by the silica nightmare. <br> <br>And in those devoured simulations, the simulated Vex will use our flesh as hosts for yet more nested universes full of yet more nested copies of us eternally tormented by yet more Vex.<br> <br>An infinite regression of pain and madness inflicted upon every possible version of us in every possible world. Not because they hate us, or fear us, or want to punish us. But because they are indifferent and curious, and they will do every possible thing to us in every possible way.|[[Elisabeth Bray]] in a letter to her father, [[Clovis Bray I]]}}

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"/>

According to notes taken by [[Clovis Bray I]], Vex gates appear to lack meaningful structure or instrumentality, instead being a seemingly arbitrary arrangement of elemental metallic components. He speculated that a gate's structure instead serves as a kind of "password" that is recognized by some technology far away in time and/or space, which will manifest a gate only when the component pieces of the gate have been assembled in the correct shape.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "ENTRY 6 AMENDMENT", ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#-029-|Page 29]]''</ref> An AI analysis included in his notes shows that transport through a gate appears to be facilitated by a non-gravitating, geometric [[wikipedia:Ellis wormhole|Ellis wormhole]] that can be traversed into another point in local spacetime, or a nearby parallel universe.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "ENTRY 7", ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#-033-|Page 33]]''</ref>

===Teleportation===

[[File:VexMoon2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Vex teleporting to the Moon]]