Possible support for the Vex's limitations (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, November 03, 2017, 07:17 (2656 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

Yeah.

I would say the Vex understand that the Light and Darkness exist but maybe they want to go their own way. Even though they recognized that both killing and worshiping the Darkness could grant them power, we are specifically told:

Being an efficient machine, Quria manufactured a priesthood and ordered all its subminds to believe in worship. Then it set about abducting and killing dangerous organisms so it could bootstrap itself to Hive godhood. For some Vex reason, Quria never attempted to introduce worm larvae into its mind fluid.

Ultimately, I think the Hive are doomed one way or the other. If the Light defeats the Darkness then the Hive lose. If the Darkness defeats the Light and there is nothing left to kill then the Hive's worm gods will turn on them and they still lose. It seems to me that maybe the Vex were smart enough to tap into the power of the Darkness without tying themselves directly to it. If the Darkness loses, the Vex just have one less powerful enemy.

As for the Cabal, most of them do seem to be separate from this whole Light / Darkness thing. They conquered races through sheer numbers and tactics and willingness to destroy entire systems if things didn't go their way. That said, Gary certainly saw Humanity's Guardians and aspired to be like that. Worse, Calus seems to have directly encountered the Darkness as is leading it to our solar system:

At the edge of the universe, I stared into the infinite deep. It stared back, and was pleased. I would become the herald of its victory, and bear witness for all creation.

The Leviathan came to a halt before a wall of infinite void. It could go no further, as the navigation system had suffered a cataclysmic failure. The course that the conspirators had set crossed a space that simply didn't exist.

I don't know how long we traveled. Years? Millennia? Time had ceased to have meaning as I wallowed in the despair of my exile. But this event shook me out of my stupor. At the edge of the universe, we had found something. No—we had found a nothing.

From the seat of my observation chamber, I stared into the perfect void. Only I, a god, could understand what I witnessed. It was a thing greater than myself. And if such a thing exists, then I, too, can become more.