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{{Quote|Ask yourself: what threatened your Golden Age ancestors so much that they constructed the Exos to defend themselves?|Card blurb<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Guardian/Races#Exo|Exo]]''</ref>}}

The Exo are a race of humanoid war machines built long ago for an unknown purpose and fashioned in humanity's image. Many of the City's Exo citizens live and work alongside their organic brethren. But others fight again, re-forged in the Light of the Traveler to serve as Guardians. <ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Guardian/Races#Exo|Exo]]''</ref>

Exos appear unyielding and tireless.<ref name = "GI">'''Game Informer January 2014''', ''page 53''</ref> Mechanically, they are so advanced that only a [[Ghost]] can comprehend their inner workings. In many ways, Exos like to think of themselves as human, or having human minds in machine bodies.<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Guardian#Ghost Fragment: Exo|Ghost Fragment: Exo]]''</ref> Mysteriously every Exo has a number appended to their name. The meaning of this number is unknown, but may possibly signify how many times an Exo has had its memory wiped.<ref>[[Banshee-44]] dialogue: ''"Ugh, how many times has my memory been wiped? Forty-one, forty-two, forty... three?"''</ref> Not all wipes are successful in completely removing past memories, though, especially for [[Guardian]]s<ref name = "Cayde"/> and some can gain access to these buried memories by purposefully dying or killing themselves.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Console, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Guardian/Races#Ghost Fragment: Exo 2|Ghost Fragment: Exo 2]]''</ref>

The Exo were built during [[human]]ity's [[Golden Age]]<ref name = "GI"/> for a long forgotten struggle,<ref name = "ExoGrimoire">'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Guardian#Exo|Exo]]''</ref> with the purpose of protecting their creators.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/28/destiny-hands-on-bungie-xbox-playstationshared-world-shooter '''The Guardian''': ''how the makers of Halo plan to change the future of shooters'']</ref> The conflict itself has long been forgotten and the Exo remain ciphers, even to themselves, for their purpose has been forgotten as well.<ref name = "ExoGrimoire"/> But there is one clue to their origins; many Exo experience a dream they call [[Deep Stone Crypt]], or the "place where they were born."<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire/Allies#Ghost Fragment: Legends|Ghost Fragment: Legends]]''</ref> It is described as "the infamous subroutine which seeded the first Exo consciousness."<ref>'''Bungie (2014-6-12)''', ''Destiny: Alpha PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Item Description: [[Deep Stone Crypt]]''</ref> [[Cayde-6]]'s memories stretch further, where he recalls being a human before traveling to [[Europa]] to become an Exo, as he "came there in flesh and bone. Gave everything to the ice. Started over. Rebooted."<ref name = "Cayde">'''Bungie (2015-9-15)''', ''Destiny: The Taken King Collector's Edition'', [[Cayde's Treasure Island Book|Modified Treasure Island Book]]</ref>