A More Definitive Answer (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, March 12, 2018, 20:33 (2525 days ago) @ Kahzgul

I obtained the Orpheus Rig exotic Hunter armor over the weekend, and it has this to say:

Quantis Rhee has almost forgotten what colors are. For months, she has prowled the deep, shadowed catacombs of Nessus—the places where the inexorable Vex burrowed into the rogue planet and replaced natural life with a cold, inhuman labyrinth.

This fits with:

Ghost: Centaurs are supposed to be just giant icy rocks. How did all this happen?
Failsafe: A robotic alien entity called the Vex have achieved 92.014 percent conversion of the Centaur Nessus.

Failsafe: Long enough to see the Vex convert this entire planetoid, kill all living organisms, reformat molecules, and digitize brain waves for further study. It's a fascinating process!

There’s also a couple of references to Nessus passing through our solar system and then disappearing for a while before reappearing 127 years ago.

FIRST 25-MATCH CRUCIBLE WINNING STREAK RECORDED. RELATED: REY, I.
CENTAUR PLANETOID "7066 NESSUS" RE-ENTERS SYSTEM AFTER UNEXPLAINED DELAY. RELAT~XXX

Ghost: This is like a… cornerstone for Nessus. Put here by the Vex to mark linear time. It's been 127 of our years since Nessus last traveled through our system. I don't know how many Vex years that is.

My best guess is that the Traveler terraformed Nessus when it was just an icy rock some time ago but later the Vex grabbed it and Vexified it, killing all the life the Travler put there replacing it with the plant and animal life we now see. Yeah, as odd as it seems, the Vex are part time gardeners:

Ghost: All the foliage around this access point is somehow augmenting its firewall. I thought the trees were mostly organic, but… just add this to the pile of things we don't understand about the Vex.

Ghost: If I'm reading this right there are… other Gardens. Like Black Garden Gardens. I couldn't tell if they were being built, or were already destroyed… what does it mean?

Does it make total sense from our perspective? No. But then... the Vex are often intentionally written to be a bit mysterious:

Ghost: This particle beam is responsible for holding this entire structure together! How do the Vex… no, don't think too hard about it. I'm still defragging from the last time I tried to figure out their physics.