Big Picture (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 08:20 (2590 days ago) @ dogcow

It might be more of a question of a Warmind having enough processing power to overwhelm the Vex. For the Humans, the Vex seemed to have enough information to predict their actions with 100% accuracy. So even if they came up with a clever way of escaping, the Vex could already know that way and counter it.

But a Warmind wasn't one small mind. It was a giant network of intelligences spread across huge bunkers dotting planets all over the system. Maybe it was simply too powerful to simulate. Or, maybe it was too spread out to simulate. Perhaps the Vex could see enough of Venus to accurately simulate the Ishtar Scientists, but maybe it could not see what was happening on Mars, Earth, Io, etc which would allow the Warmind to surprise it.

In the end, I think the idea was that a Warmind would be able to outplay the Vex at its game because for one reason or another the Vex would not be able to predict what the Warmind would do. And heck, maybe the whole point was that a Warmind was powerful enough to perfectly predict the Vex's actions and counter actions!

It's interesting, because the idea that the Vex might simulate a reality around us even comes up in the Pyramidion Strike. Asher and Ikora indicate that by entering the Pyramidion we might have entered into a Vex simulation that we couldn't trust and our only way out was to defeat the Vex mind at its center.