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According to the Lore Book "Unveiling", in the state before time and the universe began, the [[Light]] and [[Darkness]] engaged each other in a "game", analogous to a massively more complex version of the "Game of Life" invented by Earth mathematician John Conway; in the Book, this game is described allegorically as being played using flowers in a garden. This game would always end in one outcome: a self-perpetuating pattern which subsumed all others in the game. While this pleased the [[Darkness]], the [[Light]] is said to have become "vexed" by this result. | According to the Lore Book "Unveiling", in the state before time and the universe began, the [[Light]] and [[Darkness]] engaged each other in a "game", analogous to a massively more complex version of the "Game of Life" invented by Earth mathematician John Conway; in the Book, this game is described allegorically as being played using flowers in a garden. This game would always end in one outcome: a self-perpetuating pattern which subsumed all others in the game. While this pleased the [[Darkness]], the [[Light]] is said to have become "vexed" by this result. | ||
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. | 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forward, the Vex were driven to once more totally dominate the reality they found themselves in, though operating on "outdated" rules that did not account for the acausal powers of the Darkness or the Light. | ||
===The Ancient Past=== | ===The Ancient Past=== | ||