Vex Network
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- "This is the Nexus. Every path leads here and ends."
- — Osiris
The Vex Network (also known as The Nexus) is a massive, trans-dimensional and trans-temporal supercomputer-like virtual network the Vex operate in, hoping to incorporate it and themselves into the very fabric of the universe.[1] Mithrax, Kell of Light refers to it as a "potential reality".[2]
Overview
The network is detached from the linear flow of time, allowing the Vex to move through it. It also stores information. It appears to have some relation to physical space, as Praedyth mentions some of the Ishtar teams trapped within are "based in Vex network systems near Venus, [..] within ambit of the Vault's entrance"[3] and others further out in the system. The simulations Vex create within the network are real enough to kill a person.[4]
The Books of Sorrow describe the Hive's first contact with the Vex, where Ir Anûk, Ir Halak and Crota fought them in both the Ascendant realm and the "Vex world". It is unclear if said "Vex world" was the network itself, but the Hive would lose some of their power upon entering it.[5]
Scientists of the Golden Age had learned to interact with the Vex network enough to send data into it.[6] Ghosts can tap into the network, pulling information from it;[7] Skolas, Kell of Kells attempted to use the Oracles to do a similar thing in order to equip his soldiers with Vex technology.[8] An access point found on Io had apparently been modified to allow Exos to interface with the network.[9]
It is possible for living organisms to enter the Vex network, the Warlock Praedyth being the first known example of that following this imprisonment in a locked-out-of-time cell somewhere in the Vault of Glass. The 227 simulations of Maya Sundaresh, Chioma Esi, Dr Shim and Duane-McNiadh had also been sent into the realm in order to explore it.[6] In Season of the Splicer, the Vanguard finds out Mithrax, Kell of Light has learned to create portals into the network and send Guardians forth.
Purpose
{{The Vex understand time in a way we never will. [...] We live in time. They use it as a tool. Any moment that's ever happened, any moment that will ever happen, they can go back to it. Play it again till they get it right. Simulate it.|Tevis Larsen}}
It is theorized that the Vault of Glass is a confluence of timelines within the network, with Atheon, Time's Conflux overseeing and regulating it.[1]
Sekrion and the Hezen Protective are the architects for transforming Venus into another node of this network,[10] however, through the efforts of Guardians, this endeavour has been stunted and any further attempts from the Vex to restart it have been met with failure.
The Infinite Forest is yet another simulated reality within the Vex Nexus that is controlled by Panoptes, Infinite Mind. It was created on Mercury by hollowing out the planet's core.
Locations
Vex Network
The Nexus
Vex Domains
Gallery
A Vex projection
The Haunted Forest, a branch of the Infinite Forest
Sekrion within The Nexus of Venus
List of appearances
References
- ^ a b Bungie (2014/9/9), Destiny: PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Atheon, Time's Conflux
- ^ Bungie (2021/5/11), Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer - Splicer's Volley
- ^ Bungie (2019/10/1), Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Aspect - Deontic
- ^ Bungie (2017/12/5), Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris, Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Beyond Infinity
- ^ Bungie (2015/9/15), Destiny: The Taken King Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Books of Sorrow XXXIX: open your eye : go into it
- ^ a b Bungie (2015/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves, Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Ghost Fragment: Vex 4
- ^ Bungie (2017/12/5), Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris, Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Hijacked
- ^ Bungie (2015/5/19), Destiny: House of Wolves, Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Wolves' Gambit
- ^ Bungie (2017/9/8), Destiny 2: Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, Ghost Scan: Terrabase Charon, Io
- ^ Bungie (2014-9-9), Destiny, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, Grimoire: Hezen Protective
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