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All of these games would end with a single, self-sustaining pattern emerging and dominating the entire simulation.

The Vex originated in the " flower game" conducted between the Light and Darkness in the primordial " garden" that existed prior to the creation of the universe. They learned those rules, because they were those rules.Īnd in time the gardener became vexed." - The Darkness " They learned the rules that governed which patterns would flourish in the game, and which would dwindle. History Origins Ī Vex machine world seen in the cinematic

The Vex travel to the Floating Gardens to recycle their mechanical bodies when they are no longer functional. Headshots on humanoid Vex do not do much damage and instead send them into a berserk state however, shooting the exposed mind cores in their abdomen will cause them to explode. Despite their often animalistic appearance, the Vex appear to be mass-produced units, constructed of an unknown metal alloy resembling hammered brass. Vex come in a diverse array of shapes and sizes, but the majority share features such as triangular or conical "heads," single glowing photoreceptors, jointed limbs, and in several cases arrays of flexible tentacles. The mobile Vex machines encountered by Guardians are merely containers for these intelligences, which carry mind cores filled with milky radiolarian fluid - hypothesized to be the only remnant of their distant biological origin. The Vex have been described as a "hyperintelligent time-spanning thought-mesh", a collective mind composed of countless component intelligences distributed across time and space. Incomprehensible intelligence." - Grimoire description. Some Vex locations, such as the Black Garden or the Vault of Glass, are artificial realms existing outside of normal space and time. The Vex have been present in the Solar System for billions of years, predating humanity their sophisticated and watchfully guarded structures can be found on multiple planets, including Venus, Mars and Io. They cannot be conciliated or reasoned with, and are hostile to every other lifeform but their own. The Vex are capable of great feats of engineering such as reconstructing entire planets like Mercury and Nessus into their Machine Worlds, portal-based space travel, data processing, and timeline manipulation on a scale impossible for humanity, but lack language, thought and sentience in the human sense of those words. While individual Vex units are robotic in appearance, they are merely walking tools for radiolaria, microscopic organisms suspended in Vex milk that contains the species' collective intelligence. The Vex are a cyber-organic species as ancient as the Universe itself. Inside is the same as outside, and the two must be made to correspond." - Clovis Bray I. There is no difference between reality and simulation to them. " When the world does not match their eternal pattern, they alter the world to suit it. Indefinite (possibly thousands of years or eons) Sparse frame, tails, and long claw-like fingersīiological Mind/Power Core (critical point) Large, fan-like head with a beak-like protrusion Weave their way into the fabric of reality