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====Seizing the Spire====

Following the Endless Night and the Vex's failed assault on the Last City, the Vex would remain relatively quiet as the Guardians handled rising threats such the Witch Queen and her [[Lucent Brood]] gaining the Light, Calus's return and becoming a Disciple of the Witness and Eramis's return. However, as the Guardians toppled these threats and made full-time alliances with the Reefborn Awoken, Empress Caiatl's Cabal Empire and the Eliksni of House Light, they still needed to prepare for the Witness's return and prevent another Collapse. To do so, Ana Bray believed they need to find a way to repair the Warmind Rasputin, who has remained incapacitated since its encounter with the Black Fleet. However, do to so, Osiris forced Ana Bray to work with her grandfather, Clovis Bray I, housed in an AI construct within the Creation wing of Bray Exoscience on Europa. The Bray patriarch agreed to aid in restoring Rasputin albeit for different reasons.

As the Guardians worked in gathering the necessary data from the Subminds needed to regain control over the Warsat Network, stop Xivu Arath's plan to weaponize them to be used against the Last City, and restore Rasputin, the Guardians were asked by Osiris and Ikora to investigate a Seraph complex that powered up for the first time since the Collapse and discover Vex of the Sol Divisive attempting to seize control over it. If the Vex succeed then they will be able to wrest control over the subminds' data from the Vanguard, leading to catastrophic results. As they arrive however, the Guardian team finds the facility being destabilized by Arc surges as the Vex breach into the command matrix, making their window of opportunity a short one. As the Guardian's ascended the Seraph Spire, they collect as much Golden Age data as they can, discovering that the Witness is also interested in what's in the files. Nonetheless, the Guardians confront the Vex Mind linking into the tower and attempting to imprison the subminds, [[Akelous, the Siren's Current]]. Though the Guardian destroys the Vex Mind, breaking the Vex's control over the Spire's security systems, Osiris discovers, to his horror, that the Arc surges were intentional, as it was sending the reactor into meltdown. Forced to race towards the bottom of the tower to the reactor, the Guardians clash with another Vex Mind, [[Persys, Primordial Ruin]], who has been directing power to the reactor. Despite Persys's power and the reactor going prompt critical, the Guardians destroy the Vex Mind, stopping the meltdown and allowing the complex to stabilize. Osiris speculates that this assault was a clever incision employed by the Witness; to sabotage a valuable facility to harm the Vanguard, gain vital knowledge from the Golden Age and then destroy the facility outright to deny humanity any advantage it could bring.

====Neomuna====

Following the battle over Earth between the Traveler and the Black Fleet, leaving the former subdued, the Witness sent his disciple, [[Calus]], and his [[Shadow Legion]] to [[Neptune]] to acquire a paracausal artifact called [[The Veil]]. The Guardian and Osiris followed with the goal of stopping them but encountered an entire city, [[Neomuna]], the same one that Osiris had been looking for after seeing visions of it. They learned that its people are descendants of Ishtar Collective survivors who fled to Neptune during the Collapse and built Neomuna over the Veil but refrained from reaching out to the other survivors of the Sol System, instead being protected by cybernetically-augmented warriors called [[Cloud Striders]]. Sharing a common foe, the Cloud Striders, [[Rohan]] and [[Nimbus]], join forces against Calus.

Following the Guardians besting Calus, yet failing to stop the Witness from using the Veil in creating a connection with the Traveler, they would nonetheless continue to aid the Cloud Striders in defending Neomuna from both the Shadow Legion and the Vex, mainly against the latter from entering the CloudArk. However, Nimbus, the sole Cloudstrider left after the sacrifice of Rohan in the fight against Calus, struggled to bear the burden alone but believed he could carry on Rohan's work by following his notes about the Black Garden, enlisting the aid of Osiris and the Guardian. They learn that Rohan actually managed to sneak into the Black Garden without the Sol Divisive noticing and had theorized that the Heart of the Black Garden was actually a prototype of a Vex effort to create a copy of The Veil. Despite the Heart's destruction years ago, Nimbus and Osiris believe that the Sol Divisive would keep information on the Heart's creation in one of the Vex Minds, which would possibly give the Vanguard a means to enter the portal the Witness had created upon the Traveler. Though Nimbus wanted to partake in the journey, Osiris believed their duty was to Neomuna and should let the Guardian complete the mission, which Nimbus reluctantly complied with. The passkey allows the Guardian to enter the Black Garden undetected as hoped but as they venture deeper, the Sol Divisive are alerted to an intruder's presence which turned out to be Nimbus, much to Osiris's annoyance. However, as the Guardian chases after Nimbus, they find the Sol Divisive under assault by the Taken leading Osiris to speculate that The Witness is looking to cover all its tracks thereby ordering the [[Conceptual Mind]] bearing the information on the Heart to be destroyed, something which the Sol Divisive refused to do, leading to the Taken to be given the task instead. Despite this complication, the Guardian reach Nimbus after he had found a Cloud Strider's weapon, [[Deterministic Chaos]], and finally convinces Nimbus to return to Neomuna where they are needed before giving The Guardian the weapon. With their new weapon, the Guardian clears through the Vex before reaching the Conceptual Mind they were looking for. Despite the Sol Divisive Vex's efforts, the Guardian managed to destroy the Conceptual Mind and retrieve its data core, leading the Taken to clear out, which is given to Osiris for study to which they hope that the Heart's blueprint will help them in understanding The Veil.

==Command structure==

{{quote|There's no hierarchy among the Vex—just specific functions. The ones you're after serve the purpose of being tough and mean.|Cayde-6}}<ref>[http://www.destinygamewiki.com/wiki/Heavy_Duty_Models Destiny Game Wiki - Bounty: Heavy Duty Models]</ref>

The Vex are all connected to one another in a massive hive mind, but individual Vex units called Axis Minds act as leaders by storing all information necessary to complete a particular goal, freeing up individual Vex to pursue local tasks while the Axis Mind can plan globally. This creates a centralized weakness for the Vex, but they seem to consider it worth the risk.<ref>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]]: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Prohibitive_Mind|Prohibitive Mind]]''</ref> The Vex are divided up into different programming collectives, each with a different set of directives intended to advance the Vex race as a whole. Whether the Vex in question are devoted to engineering projects, full-scale war, or religious devotion, all Vex are united by a single, unfathomable purpose.<ref name="GV"/>

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| <center>[[File:Grimoire Sol Divisive.jpg|200px]]</center> || '''[[Sol Divisive]]''' || Tasked with worshiping the [[Black Heart]] and the defence of the [[Black Garden]]. Currently following the orders of the [[The Witness|Witness]].

*[[Vex Warden]]

*[[Temporal Shielding]]

==Gallery==

VexStructure2.jpg|Vegetation growing on Vex structures

VexStructure3.png|A unique Vex structure

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==List of appearances==

***''[[Season of the Seraph]]''

**''[[Lightfall]]''

==References==