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Sol Imminent
Descendants
Survivors of the Vault of Glass report sightings of ancient Vex -ancient in the sense that they have endured for eons. Convergentanalysis from multiple Ghosts suggests that these Vex exist in our
future.If the Vex exist in our future - or in a possible future - should we takethis as evidence that their defeat is impractical or unattainable? TheGuardian Vanguard is quick to point out that time travel remains a
mystery, and that the continued existence of the Vex is not remotelya sure indication of humanity's extinction.
Mars
Role: Attacks on the Cabal Exclusion Zone.
Prohibition = A rule or law that forbids something.
Build: Vex SubtypeVirgo Prohibition
Venus
Role: Defensive units around VoG and the Citadel.
Gender: Vex
Build: Vex Subtype.Hezen Protective
Source: Destiny Official Strategy Guide
"Our shots dissolved in the translucent matrix around it, useless."
Hydra
The Hydra is a miniature fortress. Despite itsphysical slowness, it is a rapid processor of thedata fed to it by other Vex, and what it lacks inmobility it makes up for in impregnable defenses
and rock-melting firepower.
Gender: Vex Construct
Role: Combat State: Gun Platform / Sentry
Has a Mind Core
Build: Space Travel Beacon / Intelligence SensorCyclops
Line Rifle
The Vex Line Rifle fires high-velocity Solar particle jets. Deployed on theHobgoblin chassis, the Line Rifle serves as a sniper weapon, pinning
down targets or delivering the killing blow. Like the Slap Rifle, the Line Rifle is a terminal weapon, although its
source is much more energetic. Some believe the weapon pulls materialfrom the accretion disk of a galactic singularity. This would imply the Vex
are near - or have already achieved - access to a terrifying range ofcivilization-killing weapons. Others consider this unlikely, and propose
that the Line Rifle simply draws from a central Vex power supply.
Slap Rifle
From a tactical perspective, the Slap Rifle is a Vex directed-energyweapon that fills their analog of the light infantry role. From anengineering perspective it's something much more interesting: a
terminal. The Slap Rifle receives a bolt of Solar energy fromsomewhere (or somewhen) else and it points it at a target.
The terminal's flexibility is impressive. In non-combat conditions,the Slap Rifle seems like it might serve as a viable field transmitter,construction tool, navigational beacon, network repeater, or any
of a number of other utility functions.
"It swam back and forth through the air, spinning, the single red eye looking - I realized - for me."
Harpy
The fastest and most mobile Vex,the Harpy is an airborne unit oftendeployed in flocks on patrols andscouting missions. They must stop
and stabilize before attacking.
Torch Hammer
The Torch Hammer is a devastatingVex heavy weapon. Firing projectilesof strange matter, the Hammer mauls
targets with exotic particle decayand deadly radiation.
"I thought it was at a safe distance. I was wrong."
Minotaur
Minotaurs pack brutal heat, but most of theirprocessing power is devoted to the physics ofbuilding massive Vex complexes, suspected toextend through multiple dimensions. Minotaur
models are thicker and harder to crack than anyother bipedal Vex, and they use theirteleportation capability aggressively.
Venus
Role: Main force on Venus. Focuses on attacking Fallen and sarching ruins.
Gender: Vex
Build: Vex Subtype.Hezen Corrective
Role: Elite units.
Grey frame & Red Eyes. Rods over body.
Build: Vex SubtypeAphix Invasive
Sol Primevil
Gender: Past Vex Hull
Exists in the Past, and in the VoG
Build: Vex SubtypeSol Precursors
Sol Imminent
Exist in the Future, and in the VoG
Gender: Future Vex Hull
Build: Vex SubtypeSol Descendants
Has the power to shape the world according to the Oracles design.
Role: Axis Mind
Gender: Vex Hydra Shell
The Templar
Hezen Corrective
We understand the Vex as a network of thoughts, unified and vast. But not all Vexare the same. The Hezen Corrective is one example of a Vex subtype, set apart from
other Vex by distinct behaviors and objectives. Swarming across the Ishtar Sink, these Vex aggressively seek out and attack theFallen House of Winter, perform inscrutable operations around shining Confluxes,
and even show interest in the Golden Age ruins left by the Ishtar Collective. The bulk of our contact with Vex forces on Venus has involved the Corrective. Thosescholars willing to risk their reputations speculating about the Vex often assert thatthe Corrective is an agent of change, designed to solve problems and remake the
world in a form suitable to the Vex. Others contend that Corrective is simply astrategic distraction - meant to draw attention away from the actions of the Hezen
Protective.
Harpy | Axis | Zealot | Supplicant
Role: Scout and patrol.
Gender: Vex Harpy Hull
Swims through the air. No Radiolara.
Harpy
Zealot | Disciple |Goblin | Fanatic | Depraved | Qodrons Eye
Build: Constructor of networks/Structures
Role: Combat State: Basic grunt
Gender: Vex Goblin Hull
Contains Milky Radiolarian fluids
Goblin
Hobgoblin | Axis | Chord | Conductive Disciple | Disciple | Iso
Build: Energy Source
Role: Combat State: Sniper
Gender: Vex Goblin Hull with added optics
Can trigger a stasis. Contain Radiolaria fluids
Hobgoblin
Minotaur | Axis | Chord | Point | Praetorian
Build: Planner/Constructor of space & time for Structures
Teleportation powers.
Role: Combat State: Heavy Weapons Platform
Gender: Vex Minotaur Hull
Minotaur
Sol Divisive
Beyond the towering Meridian Bay gate lies the Black Garden, adrift in time andspace. And within the Garden dwell the Vex of the Sol Divisive, frozen in rapture.
We have precious little insight into the Divisive's behavior. They seem central to Vexactions in the solar system: the Garden is clearly a place of enormous power.
Legends and scant field reports all indicate that the Divisive Vex behave religiously.Why would a hyperintelligent, time-spanning thought mesh exhibit religious
behavior? The answer seems as obvious as it is chilling: if the Vex found worshipand devotion more effective than any other behavior, they would adopt worship.
Whatever the Vex found - or made - in the Garden, it transcends even their power.
Centered around the Black Garden on Mars
Role: Behave Religiously. Uses Worship
Gender: Vex
Divisive = causing a lot of disagreement between people and causing them to separate into different groups
Sol Divisive
Sol Primeval
Precursors
Those who delve deep into the Vault of Glass haveseen time itself torn asunder. Awestruck Ghostsreport encounters with ancient Vex, their casings
built long before the age of humanity.It would be easy to assume these Vex are the
ancestors of those we face today - but with the Vexit is never so simple.
The Nexus
"Far below the Ishtar Academy, the Vexhave set something in motion, a world-eatingmachine transforming Venus into another linkin their intergalactic chain. This Nexus mustbe stopped and the Mind that controls it,
destroyed." - Ikora Rey
"All their joints turning together. Moving together. Towards you."
Goblin
The Goblin is the basic unit in the vastcomputational network that is the Vex.
Shattering the large, fan-shaped head doesnot seem to cause lasting damage but sends
the Goblin into a crackling frenzy.
Rahool Dialogue
Vex encryption,Unbreakable, so
they say...
VenusEndless Steps
MarsScablands
MarsValley of the Kings
MarsTharsis Junction
VenusIshtar Commons
Travel to the Reef and present the Gate Lord's head to the Queen for entrance into the Black Garden.
"The Vex continue to impress me. And depress me. Is it wrong to think that cybernetic life and organic life can get along without everybody wanting to murder each other?"
—Ghost
BUCKET_QUESTSA Key Awaits
"Atheon's story is still being written. The wielder holds the pen." - Unknown
BUCKETPRIMARYWEAPONAtheon's Epilogue
Radiolaria
"Have you walked the ruins? Seen the machines born from the lightning? We face a mighty foe."
BUCKETCLASSITEMSCloak of Perception
Particles of Vex mind fluid. Potentially a source of insight into the Vex threat for your Vanguard mentor to study.
BUCKET_MISSIONRadiolaria
"Could the Vex build a model of us? A simulated City, a whole simulated Earth, adrift in the ocean of the Vex intellect?"
BUCKETCLASSITEMSCloak of the Unfactorable
"Living metal. Incomprehensible intelligence."
The Vex
The Vex are architects of ancient and complexstructures thought to be buried within every
celestial body. Linked by a network unlike any onEarth, they operate in unison, directed by a
single unfathomable purpose.
Race
Iridescent glass baubles that seem to contain inscribed Vex logic. Always of interest to the Cryptarch in the Tower.
BUCKET_CONSUMABLESAxiomatic Beads
Can be used by your Ghost to gather more Glimmer from Vex enemies. Lasts 10 minutes.
BUCKET_CONSUMABLESBlue Polyphage
THE PATTERN
Role: The Vex obey the Pattern in every decision they make
Praedyth dialogue Paradox Mission
I had a friend back at the Tower. She used to say, "Praedyth, there's always room in the mind for hope. It's the crack that lets the Light in." The Vex have
no hope. No imagination, no drive, no fear. All they have is the pattern. Everything must fit. If it can be made to fit, good. If it can't, it gets cut away.
They think this is the end of them, a path with no escape. And yet, here they are, there they were, and there they will be, and there they will have been.
For them, there is no paradox. There is only the pattern. And the pattern needs the Vex to see it to completion. And so the Vex must be. For the mind of
the Vex, is that faith?
Welcome to the end of the Vex. Their "immutable" future.Enslaved to a will they don't understand. A will long dead here. Dead eons ago.
But then, they won't end, will they? Because you're here.
The helm's nerve interface incorporates Vex cells. They're dead, of course. But not too dead to dream…
BUCKET_HEADCowl of the Hezen Lords
"Slept in the armor last night. Woke to feel my heart stuttering to the pattern of an unknown signal."
BUCKET_CHESTCuirass of the Hezen Lords
BUCKETCLASSITEMS
"Have you walked the ruins? Seen the machines born from the lightning? We face a mighty foe."
Cloak of Perception
Slap Grenade
The Vex use Slap Grenades to drive targetsout into the open. These devices behave
more like miniaturized gates thanconventional explosives, channeling a Void
energy pulse from a remote location.
Hydra | Axis |
Role: Miniature Fortress. Rapid processor fed by data from other Vex.
Gender: Vex Hydra Hull
Hydra
Build: Designed for specific tasks
In charge of global planning so local clients can focus on specific tasks
Role: Stores a copy of all information needed to pursue a particular Vex Objective
Gender: Vex Goblin, Harpy, Minotaur or Harpy Hulls
Axis Minds
Role: Storage and Transport/Communications
Converted in days.
Planet sized Machines
The mind core of a Cyclops is substantial and contains a fluid apparently central to Vex functionality.
BUCKET_MISSIONCyclops Mind Core
Cyclops
The Cyclops is a huge, stationary Vex construct with a powerful Voidweapon. Guardians think of Cyclops as gun platforms - batteries installed
to protect key points with devastating mortar fire.But some evidence suggests that the Cyclops is in fact an enormous
sensor or beacon, and that its weapons capabilities are secondary. Whatthe Cyclops senses remains unknown, although its mind core is vast. It
may play a role in the Vex networked intelligence, or in navigation acrossspace and time.
A damaged Cyclops can be forced into a state of punch-drunk confusion,its inputs overwhelmed by hostile fire. This can result in fratricidal kills on
other Vex units.
"The air by my cheek twanged twice, stinking of ozone, before I saw it."
Hobgoblin
Specialized for sniping, this lean, tough Vex modelis fitted with improved optics and acute sensors inits horns. Like the Goblin, the Hobgoblin contains a
milky radiolarian fluid. Attacking a Hobgoblin often triggers a defensive
reflex - the Hobgoblin seals itself in stasis andwaits for help.
Hezen Protective
The mysterious Hezen Protective is the second major Vex behavioral unit onVenus. Concentrated around the legendary Vault of Glass and the Endless Steps,the site of a massive Vex gate and the access point to the towering Citadel, the
Protective's behavior seems very defensive.But leading Cryptarchs and experienced Guardians warn that it would be a fatal
mistake to think of the Vex as a conventional military occupying an area. Vexbehavior is always a process, active and purposeful. The Protective is clearly
engaged in a colossal project, but as with much Vex behavior, it's unclearwhether their ultimate purpose is even comprehensible to us. The Protective maybe reacting to an event that has yet to occur, or working towards a goal that - to
us - is already historical fact.
Virgo Prohibition
Mars is wracked by an ongoing theater-level conflict between the Cabal and a Vex subtypeknown as the Virgo Prohibition. These aggressive, relentless Vex constantly test the Cabal
exclusion zone, apparently heedless of losses.In spite of the Vex onslaught, the Cabal have managed to expand its beachhead and maintaina hold on several mysterious Vex structures. The Prohibition's tactics seem to be failing in the
short run.But it seems unlikely that an organization with the sheer computational scope of the Vex couldbe dragged into a losing war of attrition. Is it possible that the Vex are trying to draw out theCabal strength? Or that their surface losses are a distraction from a deeper strategic ploy?Ikora Rey has proposed that the Vex units can best be understood as algorithms - each a
unique mapping of inputs to behavioral responses. Perhaps the Virgo Prohibition is simply thewrong algorithm for its environment, and its failure will drive the greater Vex network to adapt
and improve.
Gate Lord
Role: Vex Axis Mind
Build: Vex Minotaur HullZydron
Zydron, Gate Lord
The intelligence we call Zydron seems to exist in a liminal state,stretched between gates in the Vex network. It manifests as a physical
being only when called.Warlock scholars believe that Gate Lords regulate traffic between Vexgates, and that their minds contain codes that might open the way intoforbidden realms. An enormous amount of hope and anger has been
spent on a particular debate - could we find a Vex gate that opens ontoa place and time before the Collapse, and somehow forestall it?
The Conductive Mind
Gender: Vex Hydra Hull
Vekron
Sekrion, Nexus Mind
The Vanguard's intelligence sources now believe, with goodconfidence, that Sekrion oversees the expansion of the Vex
network through the crust of Venus.The Hydra chassis common to many Vex Axis Minds boastsimpressive computational capacity. Sekrion likely uses thiscapacity to regulate coordination and crosstalk between
Minotaurs operating in the construction role.Destroying Sekrion should significantly hamper the Vex effort to
incorporate the entire planet into their network.
Creates bridges to specific points in time in the Vex Network
Role: Axis mind
The Restorative Mind
Gender: Vex Hydra hull
Theosyion
Role: Coordinates Vex actions against Cabal in Meridian Bay.
Gender: Vex Axis Mind Minotaur Hull
Prohibitive Mind
Prohibitive Mind
Vex Axis Minds are individual Vex hulls that contain local instances ofsuperordinate Vex goal sets. This cryptic phrase means something reasonably
simple - the Axis Mind contains a copy of all the information required to pursue aparticular objective.
This allows other nearby Vex to focus on their local tasks, leaving global planningto the Axis Mind. Of course, this also introduces a centralized weakness forenemies to target. But the Vex seem to consider the tradeoff worthwhile.
The Prohibitive Mind seems to coordinate Vex action against Cabal positions inMeridian Bay. The current Vex operational plan - to the extent that we assumethe Vex have operational plans - appears to involve an attritional campaign on
the surface, supplemented by disruptive use of gates to bypass Cabalhardpoints.
Defeat Nexus Mind Sekrion in the "Nexus" Strike on Venus.
Somewhere below the Academy on Venus a powerful Vex Hydra is infecting the planet. Take a fireteam to the Ishtar Sink and stop this machine before it spreads further.
BUCKET_BOUNTIESTARGET: Sekrion
Actually a Cyclops in game
Role: Axis Mind?
Gender: Vex Hydra Hull
Corrective MindDefeat the Corrective Mind in the "Ishtar Collective" mission on Venus with the Heroic modifier active.
The Corrective Mind, an advanced Vex Hydra, has secured an area near the Waking Ruins on Venus. Destroy it.
BUCKET_BOUNTIESTARGET: Corrective Mind
Turn in at the Bounty Tracker to collect your reward.
The Corrective Mind has been shattered.
BUCKET_BOUNTIESCorrective Mind
Weaves ripped time.
Role: Axis Mind
Build: Vex Axis Mind Hydra HullThe Undying Mind
- Maya Sundaresh, Fragmented Entry 10938, Ishtar Collective Archive
"We are starting to believe that time is home to the Vex, and somewhere in those unmappable voids dwell their undying minds."
The Undying Mind
Commander Zavala: And you believe it's different than the others.Ikora: I know it is.
Cayde-6: Let me guess... Chasing more Vex "minds"?Ikora: The readings from nearby surges hold no time function. It could quitepossibly be resealing the Black Garden back into whatever void it once hid.
Cayde-6: Any more Hidden intel?Zavala: Negative. Just some old Osiris riddles.
Cayde-6: They are starting to feel like the same thing.Ikora: We cannot just ignore it. We have to keep the Garden here, among the
Light. We are just beginning to match its pathways to this fractured data from theArchive.
Cayde-6: Interesting, undying, huh? What do you suppose they meant by that.Zavala: I'll alert the Speaker. Let's find out.
The Undying Mind
“The Black Garden may not stay among us for long.Something has begun to repair the schism torn byits destruction. Vex now flood the Garden channels
to protect it. We must stop the weavers beforethey seal the Garden and begin to summon back its
heart.“ - Ikora Rey
To Commander Zavala - My Thoughts on Recent Events
Sol Progeny
Zavala -How like you to ask me for the bad news, even in this moment of triumph. I've finished going
over that Ghost's report. It is my hypothesis - a hypothesis at best - that the Vex saw the abominable presence at theheart of the Garden as a divine power. I can hear your protest already: how can machines
have a god?The answer is simple. The Vex, for all their voracious intelligence, could not understand or
decipher what they found. They searched through all available reactions, and they settled onthe course with the greatest payoff...to worship this power, and to remake themselves in its
image.I believe the three Axis Minds found in proximity to the abomination were Vex machines built
to serve as vessels for this power: a way to extend its reach across space and time, binding itto the Vex, and the Vex to it. If they had succeeded, I cannot begin to guess what horrors
they would have unleashed.Attend carefully. There is cause for hope. When endangered, the abomination activatedthese vessels and defended itself. This tells us that it was threatened. Whatever it was,
Guardians could harm it.And it activated only a single vessel at a time. Its strength was limited. Whatever it intended,
it was not ready yet.We must assume the abomination was part of something greater. And we cannot flinch fromthe terrible, obvious comparison: just as the Traveler acts through us, this power was able to
act through its own servants.Let us be wary. There may be other abominations, and other vessels.
Ikora
Controlled by the Darkness. Killed by Guardians
Gender: Vex Minotaur Hull
Build: Current Axis Mind Minotaur BuildEschaton Mind
Controlled by the Darkness. Killed by Guardians
Gender: Vex Minotaur Hull
Build: Ascendant Axis Mind Minotaur BuildPrimeval Mind
Controlled by the Darkness. Killed by Guardians
Gender: Vex Minotaur Hull
Build: Descendant Axis Mind Minotaur BuildImminent Mind
One Past, One Present, One Future.
Religion: Controllable by Darkness.
Gender: Vex Minotaur Hulls
Build: Axis Mind Platforms for darkness.Sol Progeny
Head to the tunnels under Freehold on Mars and face down the Conductive Mind for your own source of Arc. Complete mission "A Spark in Shadow."
"The Vex are practical, focused. They store energy in all its forms. The Conductive Mind contains a powerful Arc source. Seek out this construct, destroy it, and claim the source as your own."
Ikora
BUCKET_QUESTSA Spark in Shadow
A Rising Tide
"Of all the tactics we have to use against the Vex,shutting down their gates may be the most
effective. You may have saved Freehold frombeing overrun. I sense a pattern here - a
connection between this Vex outbreak, the BlackGarden, and the Vault of Glass...I need to know
more." - Ikora Rey
Atheon, Time's Conflux
To speak of Atheon is to accept certain limitations. We are ill-equipped to understand anentity that defies simple causality. Let us accept these limitations and proceed.
Atheon waits in the Vault of Glass. Just as Atheon sidesteps 'past' and 'future', it is impossibleto say whether Atheon created the Vault or the Vault created Atheon. Causal pathways
converge on Atheon from every axis in the space-time bulk.Atheon has a function. We hazard that it regulates and oversees the Vex conflux system.
What are these confluxes? How do they relate to the physical Vex network that has devouredso much of Mercury and Venus?
We might guess that the Vex confluxes represent the extension of this network across spaceand time. Perhaps the Vex use closed timelike curves to solve unfathomable computations. Orthe Vex may seek to transcend a physical substrate, and move their thoughts directly into the
fundament of the universe. If physics is a set of rules that the cosmos uses to calculate itself, perhaps the Vex seek to
worm their way into these calculations: to become a law of reality, inseparable fromexistence. A virus in the system. Perhaps Atheon was the centerpiece of this project, a
command nexus that unified efforts across time.But we must accept that all of this is speculation.
The Templar
Even among the Axis Minds, the Templar is extraordinary.Fragmentary glimpses and scattered reports suggest a Hydra of
impossible capabilities - a creature out of time.The Templar and the Oracles guard the way into the deeper Vault.Legends say that the Oracles foresee what is to come, a world asthe Vex desire it - and that the Templar has the power to shape
reality to match the Oracles' design, expunging any threats.The power of the Vault flows through the Templar. It will take
something extraordinary to shatter its shield.
The Gorgons
Deep in the Vault of Glass, the fabric of reality bends to the will of the Vex.Warlocks speak in tones of awe of the Gorgons - creatures that seem to
possess a dreaded, almost unimaginable strength: an ontological weapon.Like the Oracles and the Templar, the Gorgons reputedly possess the ability to
define what is and is not real. Whatever they perceive becomes subject toerasure at their will. Until a countermeasure can be found, Guardians must
avoid their gaze at all costs - or reply to any detection with immediate,overwhelming force.
The Gorgons' ability must be tied to the nature of the Vault of Glass. We cantake some solace in the clear fact that the Vex cannot manifest this power in
the world outside.
The Vault whispers of a world beyond.
BUCKET_SHIP"Glass Minuet"
You fly unbound beneath eternity.
BUCKET_SHIP"Aspect of Glass"
Vex Raid
The Vault of Glass
Role: Transforms Venus into a link in the Vex intergalactic chainThe Nexus
Transit Map
MarsThe Drift
MarsFreehold station
MarsFreehold Station
MarsBuried City
VenusWaking Ruins
VenusThe Citadel
VenusN/Gen Branch
VenusCampus 9
Coordinates Minotaur building efforts.
The Nexus Mind
Gender: Vex Hydra hull
Role: Axis MindSekrion
Gatelords
Build: Vex Axis Mind.
Time´s Conflux
The Center of the conflux system. Sidesteps time.
Gender: Vex presumably Minotaur Hull.
Atheon
Role: Ontological Weaponry
Gender: Vex Harpy shell
Possess the ability to defy what is real and what is not real. Can erase guardians from time.
Build: Can only use powers within the Vault of GlassThe Gorgons
S E LogoVenus Aphrodite Terra Maxwell Montes Ishtar Cliffs
Unknown E Logo
Ishtar Collective Transit Map
VenusIshtar Cliffs
Mechanical Race with a Biological Core.
The Vex
-Ikora Rey
"Restorative Minds are of the Weavers, carrying the means to undo any Mind's undoing."
Theosyion, the Restorative Mind
The appearance of the Restorative Mind purports that the death of theNexus Mind was a devastating blow to Vex efforts on Venus. But with its
appearance comes many questions: if the Vex could unleash time as aweapon against humanity, why does humanity still stand? Are we so
insignificant a threat that the Vex haven’t bothered with totalannihilation? Or is it that the very state of mankind, diminished to a LastCity, is of Vex doing? That the Vanguard exists in a causal loop that the
Vex control in its entirety, one from which there is no escape?
Echo Chamber
“The Vex still mourn the loss of the Nexus Mind. But forthe Vex, time is relative. In one moment, a construct is
lost. In the next, it is reborn. When a powerful part of thenetwork is lost, the Restorative Mind is summoned. It hasbegun creating a bridge through time. A bridge that, if it is
not destroyed, will see the Nexus Mind reborn.” - IkoraRey
Complete "The Nexus" Strike.
BUCKET_QUESTS
"The world-eating machine beneath Venus has restarted, Guardian. The Ishtar Sink requires your Light once again." —Ikora Rey
The Nexus Revisited
Venus turns more quietly because of you.
BUCKETCLASSITEMSMark of the Nexus Undone
Role: In Game Dialogue
A Stranger's Call
GHOST Our new friend must have access to extraordinary methods to reach out to us likethat. The radio message she sent came from somewhere in the jungles of Venus.
GHOST I don't like us getting dragged out here and not being able to get the lay of the land.There used to be a Guardian outpost nearby. Let's see what they have on this place.
GHOST We're linked. Sparrow's accessible.There's a lot here about some war machines called the Vex. Indestructible, relentless,
supremely intelligent. And they can teleport. Great. Guardians used to have sensors to trackthem. Let's get them back online.
GHOST The Vex sensors should be up ahead.
GHOST These sensors are extensive.
GHOST OK. I should be able to track these machines. Let's head to those coordinates and findout what she wanted us to see.
GHOST Detecting Vex. Like we're surrounded.
GHOST The coordinates lead here? What is it? Let me get a close look.
GHOST Fascinating. A conflux of non-baryonic streams going... where?
GHOST Oh no! No! No! It's the Vex! Better find some cover...
GHOST What are these things? Are there any still intact that I can analyze?
Role: In Game Dialogue
Eye of a Gate Lord
GHOST The more we learn about the Vex, the more I understand why our Exo friend is soworried about them. During the Collapse, the Vex transformed the planet Mercury into amachine in days. They would have spread to every planet if The Traveler hadn't stopped
them. We need to get into the Black Garden. We need a Gate Lord's head.
HEADLANDS, ISHTAR SINK, VENUS
GHOST First thing we're going to have to do is get me into the Vex network so I can lure out aGate Lord. I'll lead the way.
GHOST Here's what we have on Gate Lords: "Three stories tall. Protect the realms the Vexkeep locked out of time." Time? That can't be right.
THE CITADEL, ISHTAR SINK, VENUS
GHOST I'm picking up a heavy conflux nearby. I can use it to get into their network.
THE GUARDIAN APPROACHES THE CONFLUX AND DEPLOYS THE GHOST TO SCAN IT.
GHOST And I thought you had the hard job.
GHOST Okay, we've got to head for a place called the Endless Steps. That's where we'll findthe Gate Lord.
THE GUARDIAN PROCEEDS THROUGH WAKING RUINS AND APPROACHES CAMPUS 9.
GHOST To find the Gate Lord, I sort of had to mess with all their transfer gates here. You'reprobably going to have your hands full.
THE GUARDIAN APPROACHES A GATE.
GHOST The Gates are waking. They'll keep coming unless you can shut them down.
THE VEX KEEP COMING
GHOST You've got to destroy the Gates!
FOLLOWING GHOST'S COMMAND, THE GUARDIAN DESTROYS A GATE.
GHOST That worked! Keep it up!
ENDLESS STEPS, ISHTAR SINK, VENUS
GHOST And that is where we'll find the Gate Lord. Let's go.
THE GUARDIAN CLEARS OUT ALL OF THE VEX AT THE TOP OF THE STEPS.
GHOST I guess you're going to have to step inside the ring.
THE GUARDIAN STANDS ON THE SYNC PLATE FOR A FEW SECONDS.
GHOST Here we go.
ZYDRON, GATE LORD APPEARS. THE GUARDIAN BATTLES THE VEX AND DESTROYS ZYDRON,GATE LORD.
GHOST Nice work! This better get us into the Black Garden. Let's go get our key from theQueen.
Role: In Game Dialogue
Ishtar Collective
GHOST I wish you'd check with me before making insane promises. If we're going to takedown a Gate Lord we've got
to find out how these machines operate. Let's find the biggest one we can, pull out its brainand see what we can learn about them.
GHOST Ok, there's a big Vex signature just up the coast. Let's kill it, whatever it is, and bringits mind core to one of the old Academy research labs.
GHOST Up ahead. A ridiculously large Vex emission. Sounds like what we're looking for.
GHOST Fascinating! Let's head for that research station.
GHOST Their mind cores are actually biological, not relative to any known life forms recorded.Maybe the Collective's research can tell us more.
GHOST These ruins predate humanity by a few billion years. Vex are coursing through them.
GHOST The research station.
GHOST Nice work. There's got to be a central terminal around here... Found one! Let's see if Ican get it to work.
GHOST It's revivable! I'll see what they discovered here.
GHOST Vex! They're coming!
GHOST The Vex share one mind across a million units! That's why they react so fast.
GHOST Amazing, they can warp across star systems in an instant.
GHOST I'm almost done.
GHOST I know how to find a Gate lord. Each Vex is part of a giant network that spreadsthrough the mantle of the entire planet. If I can just get into their system, we can draw a
Gate Lord out.
Amputated from a creature that stumbled out of a Vex gate. A vestigial defensive reflex still remains.
BUCKET_ARMSDon't Touch Me
Turn in at the Bounty Tracker to collect your reward.
The Divisive Mind has been silenced.
BUCKET_BOUNTIESDivisive Mind
Gender: Vex Hydra HullDivisive Mind
Amputated from a creature that stumbled out of a Vex gate. A vestigial defensive reflex still remains.
BUCKET_ARMSDon't Touch Me
Role: Teleports Vex units across time/spaceVex Gate
Role: Network that all Vex connect to. Vex Network
Slivers of glass used by the Vex. Isotopic dating suggests their age ranges across billions of years - past and future.
BUCKET_MATERIALSEpoch Splinter
Delivering the inevitable, one pull at a time.
BUCKETPRIMARYWEAPONFatebringer
The helm's nerve interface incorporates Vex cells. They're dead, of course. But not too dead to dream…
BUCKET_HEADFaçade of the Hezen Lords
Role: In Game Dialogue
Paradox Daily
IKORA The Vault of Glass. It is one of the Vanguard's greatest triumphs. The destruction ofTime's Conflux. A victory over the Vex collective mind. From deep in that vault, we've
received a signal laced with an old Vanguard signature. Vex technology disrupts the weft andweave of time itself. If a Guardian has become lost, unstuck in time, we must return them
home.
WAKING RUINS, ISHTAR SINK, VENUS
IKORA The message we received was this:PRAEDYTH [static] a message. The creatures will soon reach the heart of the vault. When
[static] once they take the Vex, they'll come for the Light.IKORA That's why you're here.
PRAEDYTH [static] where I am. My name is Praedyth, and I was a member of Kabr's Fireteam.I just hope[static].
IKORA Praedyth. I've heard that name before. Scattered pieces of gear, references in themargin of a text. He is real.
COLLECTS GHOST MEMORY
PRAEDYTH So the Vex have predicted their own annihilation. When did they believe this wouldhappen? Can the calculations of minds the size of planets be wrong?
IKORA If the Taken are here in the vault, they are at the heart of the Vex collective mind.Imagine the machine-planets of the Vex surging with Taken power. This must not be,
Guardian.PRAEDYTH [static] [I don't know why they're letting] me speak. Now, after so long. But if
anyone is listening [static] [I came] into the vault with two others. Kabr was intensesometimes. And Pahanin was always talking to himself [static] [but] they don't deserve this.
No one does.GHOST I'm tracking the signal. Just a little further.
TEMPLAR'S WELL
GORGON'S LABYRINTH. COLLECTS GHOST MEMORY
PRAEDYTH I had a friend back at the Tower. She used to say, "Praedyth, there's always roomin the mind for hope. It's the crack that lets the Light in." The Vex have no hope. No
imagination, no drive, no fear. All they have is the pattern. Everything must fit. If it can bemade to fit, good. If it can't, it gets cut away.
GHOST I've lost the signal. Something down here is blocking it.
DISCOVERS THE BLIGHTED MIND HYDRA
GHOST That's it! That Hydra is causing the block. Take it out or we may never find Praedyth.
DESTROYS THE BLIGHTED MIND
GHOST I think...yes. We've cleared the vault of Taken. For the moment, anyway.PRAEDYTH I think that's it. They're closing the door. I lived! Just remember, tell them I lived
[static]GHOST Signal's gone. But I can pinpoint the source.
COLLECTS GHOST MEMORY
PRAEDYTH They think this is the end of them, a path with no escape. And yet, here they are,there they were, and there they will be, and there they will have been. For them, there is noparadox. There is only the pattern. And the pattern needs the Vex to see it to completion.
And so the Vex must be. For the mind of the Vex, is that faith?
ENTERS THE VAULT OF GLASS
PRAEDYTH Welcome to the end of the Vex. Their "immutable" future.PRAEDYTH Enslaved to a will they don't understand. A will long dead here. Dead eons ago.
But then, they won't end, will they? Because you're here. PRAEDYTH The Vex won't spare the City. They won't even thank you. But that's the thing
about Light. You never know where it will shine.
OPENS CHEST
GHOST Another dead Ghost. This is...wait, I think this is Praedyth's Ghost. She's still got filesin her core memory. They're marked with Future War Cult headers. I'd bet Lakshmi will want
to see this.
"Are you afraid? Listen closely: so are they."
BUCKET_CHESTFear Eater
Stay at the top of the food chain.
BUCKET_ARMSFear Eater
When I wear the mask I am a machine, the purpose of which is consumption.
BUCKET_HEADFear Eater
No one's impervious to psychological warfare. Even the Vex develop reactions to certain foes.
BUCKET_LEGSFear Eater
Ghost Fragment: Rasputin 2
She hunts the Valus named Ta'aurc by the grunting radio traffic of his bodyguards. Caydesent her to Mars to track and so track she will even if it kills her a hundred times. For him she
will hunt forever.When Ta'aurc goes down into Meridian Bay she follows him in the night and finds herself
caught up in the war. Like this—Something's happening, her Ghost says, something's wrong. She leaps from the Sparrow and
gets cover between slabs of ancient stone haunted by quiet firefly light.Harvesters sweep overhead, cautious, prowling. On the Cabal command network a low voice
mutters in their tongue, saying: Stand by to fire. They are coming. Stand by to fire.Hearing this she climbs a stone obelisk and perches on its point to watch the night sky. She
wonders whether she will ever stand in the Tower courtyard and look up at the stars waitingfor ruin.
The Vex erupt from nothingness and crash down over the Cabal in formations of golden light.Lightning arcs and snaps and gives birth to marching ranks of bronze warrior hulls. Gun
positions thunder back. Tracers sweep the sky and she can feel on her skin theelectromagnetic howl of Cabal munitions seeking targets and the prickle of stranger signals
that whisper of broken space and bent time. A Harvester spins down burning to shatter itselfon the sand and now the command network drums with grim Cabal war-speak, a Centurion
somewhere crying Black Shield, Black Shield, Firebase Thuria, perimeter compromised, requestterminal protective fire, zero six zero, one three eight, immediate effect—
Something else is watching too.Do you feel that? her Ghost whispers, awestruck.
Yes, she says, yes, what is it?A third song, a stealthy regard, something high above them not Vex nor Cabal narrowing itsgreat eye to measure the battle with instruments of light and gravity. Does she—remember
it? Does it remember her? It feels like she should...She has the sense of something old lifting a long spear. Testing its heft.
Then dawn light, a terrible dawn—the sky opens up to admit devastation, thrown down fromorbit: Minotaurs fall burnt and broken with their fluids boiling out. Cabal guns detonate inthunderous chains as tiny piercing flechettes fall out of the sky and find their ammunition
bunkers.The battle stops. The Vex wink out. On the Cabal network the voice of Valus Ta'aurc roars:
Find the source! Rouse the Flayers and find the source!She remembers word from Earth: the Array opened. A ghost of the Cosmodrome set loose.And she wonders who won this battle, who learned the most, the Vex baiting out this new
power, or the Cabal hunting it. Or the Warmind itself, testing its reborn strength.When someone kills Ta'aurc and the Flayers, as they killed Draksis, whose purpose will they
serve?But this is not for her. Her purpose is the hunt.
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