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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 name="tpod">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow|Books of Sorrow]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XXXVIII: The partition of death|XXXVIII: 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]]: [[The Taken King]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow|Books of Sorrow]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XL: An Emperor For All Outcomes|XL: An Emperor For All Outcomes]]''</ref> Quria would later ambush Oryx when he attacked the [[Nicha Thought-ship]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow|Books of Sorrow]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XLI: Dreadnaught|XLI: Dreadnaught]]''</ref> 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.<ref name="End of Failed Timeline">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow|Books of Sorrow]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XLIII: End of Failed Timeline|XLIII: End of Failed Timeline]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow|Books of Sorrow]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books of Sorrow#XLIV: strict proof eternal|XLIV: strict proof eternal]]''</ref>

During or before the [[Collapse]], the colony ship [[Exodus Black]] left Earth on a trajectory out of the solar system. It was intercepted, however, by the planetoid known as [[Nessus]], which had become fully converted into a Vex Machine World and had left its usual orbital patterns.<ref name="Six">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Six]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - Item Description: [[Exodus Down Suit#Lore|Exodus Down Cloak/Mark/Bond]]''</ref> The entire crew of the Exodus Black was captured or killed, with some being kept alive by the Vex for a time for experimentation and analysis.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[O Captain]]''</ref>

{{Quote|Some speculate that the radiolarian fluid is the last vestige of a biological life-form that became the Vex.|Sister [[Faora]]}}<ref>'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]] - Item Description: [[Kairos Function Suit#Kairos Function Mark/Cloak/Bond|Kairos Function Mark/Cloak/Bond]]''</ref>

Further, the Guardians made constant travels into the Infinite Forest, preventing any Vex experiments from bearing anything significant that would work against the Last City. One experiment involved the simulated Cabal [[Valus Thuun]]. After the simulation failed to prevent the Guardians from finding the Infinite Mind's lair, Thuun was resurrected as part of a glitch and continuously attempts to destroy the map, only to fail. Osiris contacts the Guardians again and has them eliminate Valus Thuun for good.<ref name="TOP">'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]] - [[Tree of Probabilities]]''</ref>

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.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/7)''', ''[[Weblore]]:[[Weblore:Season of Dawn|Season of Dawn]] - [[Weblore:Season of Dawn#Actions of Mutual Friends|Actions of Mutual Friends]]''</ref> Taking advantage of this, a council of Cabal [[Psion Flayer]]s seek to assume control of the timeways to undo their defeat during the Red War and create a better future for themselves.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/8)''', ''[[Weblore]]:[[Weblore:Season of Dawn|Season of Dawn]] - [[Weblore:Season of Dawn#Sisters|Sisters]]''</ref> 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]].<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]]''</ref>

The Black Garden is another example of a Vex effort to harness paracausal forces for their own use, in this case with the rogue Vex faction known as the Sol Divisive that the rest of the Vex Collective either avoid or are opposed to.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/10/1)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Undying]] - [[Lore]]:[[Lore:Aspect|Aspect]], [[Lore:Aspect#Epistemic|Epistemic]]''</ref> All Vex seek to survive and dominate the universe, but while the main Vex Collective seek to simulate a future where both Light and Darkness don't exist and only Vex remain,<ref name="BI"/> the Sol Divisive seek to become one with and be remade by the Darkness to achieve supremacy. The Sol Divisive worshipped the Black Heart, initially believed to be a fragment of the Darkness, as they could not understand it with all their intelligence and predicted the best course of action was to worship it and remake themselves in its image. They created the [[Sol Progeny]] as vessels for its power, to bind it to the Vex and the Vex to it,<ref name=SolP/> in what the [[Speaker]] believed to be an attempt to bring forth the powers the Vault of Glass was designed to achieve.<ref name=VoGSP>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Activities|Activities]]/[[Grimoire:Activities/Story: Mars, Meridian Bay|Story: Mars, Meridian Bay]], [[Grimoire:Activities/Story: Mars, Meridian Bay#The Black Garden|The Black Garden]]''</ref> It is noted in [[Deterministic Chaos]] that the Sol Divisive follow a lonelier path compare to other Vex, as they chose to aim for the chance to create something, something truly paracausal, instead of to simply simulate or remake in their image.<ref name="DC"/>

The Vex are all connected to one another in a massive hive mind, but individual Vex units called [[Vex Mind]]s 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]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex Axis Minds|Vex Axis Minds]], [[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>'''Bungie (2014/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex|Vex]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#The Vex|The Vex]]''</ref>

| <center>[[File:CompelledVexInfo.png|200px]]</center> || '''[[Nessian Schism]]''' || A Collective that recently emerged on Nessus when the [[Echo (object)|Echoes]] were ejected from the Pale Heart, distinguishable by the silica neck-braces around their frames.

Overall, the Vex network is compartmentalized and operates in localized nodes called "subnets", which can each work independently from one another. If one suffers, it will not affect the rest of the network as a whole. They all function differently but work toward the same goal of Convergence. The Infinite Forest, and possibly the Vault of Glass, are their own subnets, where the former represents only a fraction of Vex's overall power.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]] - Item Description: [[Kairos Function Suit#Warlock|Kairos Function Suit]]''</ref>

 

As machine intelligences with incredible amounts of processing power at their disposal, the Vex are capable of generating simulations of reality to a degree of accuracy and realism exceeding even the best efforts of Golden Age humanity. According to records from the Ishtar Collective, Vex are capable of generating simulations of real-world events with perfect fidelity and predictive ability — essentially running a parallel reality in their minds which is arguably indistinguishable from the "real" universe. Even lone Goblins have the processing power to nest such simulations up to 227 times through the simple expedient of simulating themselves along with their surroundings in the pockets of the universes that are being simulated. <ref name="GFV"/><ref name="GFV5">'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Enemies|Enemies]]/[[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex|Vex]], [[Grimoire:Enemies/Vex#Ghost Fragment: Vex 5|Ghost Fragment: Vex 5]]''</ref> Due to the nature of Vex cognition, they cannot actually distinguish between their simulations and reality, and only recognize that the two must match.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "NOTE—FORGE STAR", ''[[Mysterious_Logbook#-048-|-048-]]''</ref> The predictive capacity of these simulations appears to be limited only to ordinary physics, as the Vex are unable to simulate complex phenomena that are linked to a paracausal power. These include [[Guardian]]s,<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves]] - [[Grimoire]]:[[Grimoire:Allies|Allies]]/[[Grimoire:Allies/Osiris|Osiris]], [[Grimoire:Allies/Osiris#Osiris|Osiris]]''</ref> and [[Oryx]]; in the latter case they were only able to bootstrap a simulation of his original incarnation as Aurash.<ref name="End of Failed Timeline"/> [[Warmind]]s are also complex enough to resist simulation, at least by a single Vex unit.<ref name="GFV3"/>

As a collective intelligence spanning across alternate realities, the Vex are intrinsically tied to the [[Corridors of Time]] that they can traverse through it like time travel; the Precursors and Descendants subtypes having originated from the past and future respectively, and numerous Vex units have titles or functions that allude to an ability to manipulate time. [[Skolas, Kell of Kells]] attempted to leverage Vex time-travel technology to pull the entire [[House of Wolves]] through time from the past to the present.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[House of Wolves (expansion)|House of Wolves]] - [[Queen's Ransom]]''</ref> However, according to Sister [[Faora]] of the [[Cult of Osiris]], the Vex may not be capable of "time travel" as is commonly understood; if they were, she claims, neither the Guardians nor any other obstacles to the Vex would still exist.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/12/5)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Curse of Osiris]] - Item Description: [[Kairos Function Suit#Kairos Function Greaves/Boots/Boots|Kairos Function Greaves/Boots/Boots]]''</ref>

While hacking into a major Vex terminal, the A.I. Failsafe was captured by the Vex in the network; by the time the Guardian retrieved her, she explained that a decade had passed inside the network despite only a few minutes passing outside as time works differently between the two. <ref name="HTP">'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Hack the Planet]]''</ref> On Nessus, the Vex have apparently also engaged in spacetime engineering and "folded" the dimensions of normal spacetime, adding 6 new dimensions to the 4 dimensions of the spacetime continuum and making past and future interchangeable from the present moment on the planetoid.<ref>'''Bungie (2017/8/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Exodus Down Suit]]''</ref> Certain Vex Minotaurs on Nessus and in the Infinite Forest are equipped with "Temporal Shielding," which will retroactively eliminate projectiles as if they were never fired at all.{{Citation needed}}

*[[Kairos Function Suit]]