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At some point, Clovis Bray I, the patriarch of the [[House Bray|Bray]] family and founder of the [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray corporation]], arranged for a Vex to be stolen from the Ishtar Collective and transported to his research site on [[Europa]].<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "[[Mysterious Logbook#ENTRY 6 AMENDMENT|ENTRY 6 AMENDMENT]]"</ref> This Vex then built a gate leading from Europa to 2082 Volantis, a blue giant star system in which the star had been surrounded by Vex megastructures.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "[[Mysterious Logbook#ENTRY 7|ENTRY 7]]"</ref> Clovis I's ensuing research into Vex radiolarian fluid and the mysterious paracausal power he called "[[Darkness|Clarity]]" resulted in a breakthrough in the development of [[Exos|exominds]].{{Citation needed}} Bray also oversaw the creation of an AI based on Vex technology on [[Vesper Station]] in orbit around Europa, which was quarantined after it became hostile; centuries after the Collapse, it would be released when debris from the destroyed Morning Star station impacted Vesper Station and allowed the AI to seize control of a [[Fallen]] [[Exo]] body, becoming the [[The Corrupted Puppeteer|Corrupted Puppeteer]].<ref name="VP">'''Bungie (2024/10/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Revenant]] - [[Vesper's Host]]''</ref> | At some point, Clovis Bray I, the patriarch of the [[House Bray|Bray]] family and founder of the [[Clovis Bray (corporation)|Clovis Bray corporation]], arranged for a Vex to be stolen from the Ishtar Collective and transported to his research site on [[Europa]].<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "[[Mysterious Logbook#ENTRY 6 AMENDMENT|ENTRY 6 AMENDMENT]]"</ref> This Vex then built a gate leading from Europa to 2082 Volantis, a blue giant star system in which the star had been surrounded by Vex megastructures.<ref>'''[[Mysterious Logbook]]''', "[[Mysterious Logbook#ENTRY 7|ENTRY 7]]"</ref> Clovis I's ensuing research into Vex radiolarian fluid and the mysterious paracausal power he called "[[Darkness|Clarity]]" resulted in a breakthrough in the development of [[Exos|exominds]].{{Citation needed}} Bray also oversaw the creation of an AI based on Vex technology on [[Vesper Station]] in orbit around Europa, which was quarantined after it became hostile; centuries after the Collapse, it would be released when debris from the destroyed Morning Star station impacted Vesper Station and allowed the AI to seize control of a [[Fallen]] [[Exo]] body, becoming the [[The Corrupted Puppeteer|Corrupted Puppeteer]].<ref name="VP">'''Bungie (2024/10/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Episode: Revenant]] - [[Vesper's Host]]''</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#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> | 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> | ||
===Destiny 1=== | ===Destiny 1=== | ||
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====The Red War==== | ====The Red War==== | ||
[[File:Brakion.jpg|300px|thumb|Guardians engaging [[Brakion, Genesis Mind]]]] | [[File:Brakion.jpg|300px|thumb|Guardians engaging [[Brakion, Genesis Mind]]]] | ||
{{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 | {{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> | ||
By the time of the [[Red War]], two years after the Taken War, the Vex had come under attack by the [[Fallen]] [[House of Dusk]] and the Cabal [[Red Legion]] on Io, Mercury, Mars, and Nessus. Of note, on Mars the Red Legion quickly succeeded against the Vex where other Cabal legions had failed for decades: they destroyed the gate to the Black Garden and drove the Vex out of [[Meridian Bay]].<ref name="D2GS">'''Bungie (2017/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Ghost scan]]: [[Ghost scan#Arcadian Valley, Nessus|NE-CST-4]]''</ref> According to [[Cayde-6]], the Red Legion has brought even more of their might to bear on Mars than on Earth.<ref name="C6T">'''Bungie (2017/9/14)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Cayde-6]]: [[Cayde-6#Destiny 2|"You should see some of these reports I'm reading about Mars. And you thought the Cabal weren't messing around on Earth."]]''</ref> | By the time of the [[Red War]], two years after the Taken War, the Vex had come under attack by the [[Fallen]] [[House of Dusk]] and the Cabal [[Red Legion]] on Io, Mercury, Mars, and Nessus. Of note, on Mars the Red Legion quickly succeeded against the Vex where other Cabal legions had failed for decades: they destroyed the gate to the Black Garden and drove the Vex out of [[Meridian Bay]].<ref name="D2GS">'''Bungie (2017/9/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Ghost scan]]: [[Ghost scan#Arcadian Valley, Nessus|NE-CST-4]]''</ref> According to [[Cayde-6]], the Red Legion has brought even more of their might to bear on Mars than on Earth.<ref name="C6T">'''Bungie (2017/9/14)''', ''[[Destiny 2]] - [[Cayde-6]]: [[Cayde-6#Destiny 2|"You should see some of these reports I'm reading about Mars. And you thought the Cabal weren't messing around on Earth."]]''</ref> | ||
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[[File:Vex10.jpg|thumb|300px|The Martyr Mind, Agioktis]] | [[File:Vex10.jpg|thumb|300px|The Martyr Mind, Agioktis]] | ||
{{Quote|Martyr Mind, time to die!|Saint-14}}<ref>'''Bungie (2020/04/08)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]], [[Saint-14#Quotes|Saint-14]]''</ref> | {{Quote|Martyr Mind, time to die!|Saint-14}}<ref>'''Bungie (2020/04/08)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]], [[Saint-14#Quotes|Saint-14]]''</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/ | 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> | ||
During the past, after Saint-14's last mission to find Osiris and before the Guardian's awakening, the Vex, in their desperate attempt to kill Saint-14, built [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]] at [[Infinity's Siphon]], specifically designed to kill the legendary Titan by draining him of his Light.<ref name="PP">'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]] - Item Description: [[Perfect Paradox#Lore|Perfect Paradox]]''</ref> However, the Martyr Mind would get into a skirmish with the Guardian who used [[the Sundial]] to travel through time to save Saint-14. As a result of this distraction, the Martyr Mind would manage to detain the Guardian instead, but releasing Saint-14 in the process, where it would be destroyed by the Titan it was designed to stop. 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.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]] - [[Corridors of Time Part 2]]''</ref> | During the past, after Saint-14's last mission to find Osiris and before the Guardian's awakening, the Vex, in their desperate attempt to kill Saint-14, built [[Agioktis, Martyr Mind]] at [[Infinity's Siphon]], specifically designed to kill the legendary Titan by draining him of his Light.<ref name="PP">'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]] - Item Description: [[Perfect Paradox#Lore|Perfect Paradox]]''</ref> However, the Martyr Mind would get into a skirmish with the Guardian who used [[the Sundial]] to travel through time to save Saint-14. As a result of this distraction, the Martyr Mind would manage to detain the Guardian instead, but releasing Saint-14 in the process, where it would be destroyed by the Titan it was designed to stop. 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.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]] - [[Corridors of Time Part 2]]''</ref> | ||
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{{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>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - Item Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/heavy-duty-models Heavy Duty Models]''</ref> | {{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>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] - Item Description: [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/items/heavy-duty-models Heavy Duty Models]''</ref> | ||
[[File:VexDestiny2.jpg|300px|thumb|Lesser units on the attack, directed by an Axis Mind]] | [[File:VexDestiny2.jpg|300px|thumb|Lesser units on the attack, directed by an Axis Mind]] | ||
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 | 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> | ||
===Infantry=== | ===Infantry=== | ||
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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-|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-|33]]''</ref> | 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-|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-|33]]''</ref> | ||
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 | 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> | ||
===Teleportation=== | ===Teleportation=== | ||
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===Time travel=== | ===Time travel=== | ||
[[File:VexLunaGate2.jpg|300px|thumb|A Vex Warp Gate]] | [[File:VexLunaGate2.jpg|300px|thumb|A Vex Warp Gate]] | ||
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 | 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]]''</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}} | 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}} | ||
===Weaponry=== | ===Weaponry=== | ||
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**[[Armor of the Hezen Lords]] set | **[[Armor of the Hezen Lords]] set | ||
*Omega Mechanos set | *Omega Mechanos set | ||
*Kairos Function | *[[Kairos Function Suit]] | ||
{{Col-2}} | {{Col-2}} | ||
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**''[[Episode: Echoes]]'' | **''[[Episode: Echoes]]'' | ||
**''[[Episode: Revenant]]'' | **''[[Episode: Revenant]]'' | ||
**''[[Episode: Heresy]]'' {{Nc}} | |||
*''[[Destiny: Fall of Osiris]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Destiny: Fall of Osiris]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Destiny: Warmind (comic)|Destiny: Warmind]]'' | *''[[Destiny: Warmind (comic)|Destiny: Warmind]]'' | ||