A More Definitive Answer (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 10:48 (2524 days ago) @ Kahzgul

We suspect Vex don’t have to inhabit their distinct robot forms. The scientists rescued from the Ishtar Academy approached Vex structures like this:

Up here they have to act by biomechanical proxy. No human being in the Ishtar Academy has ever crossed the safety cordon and walked the ancient stone under the Citadel, the Vex construct that stabs up out of the world to injure space and time. It's not safe. The cellular Vex elements are infectious, hallucinogenic, entheogenic. The informational Vex elements are more dangerous yet— and there could be semiotic hazards beyond them, aggressive ideas, Vex who exist without a substrate. Even now, operating remote bodies by neural link, the team's thoughts are relayed through the warmind who saved them, sandboxed and scrubbed for hazards. Their real bodies are safe in the Academy, protected by distance and neural firewall.

Maybe there are different types of Vex worlds? Mercury was converted to be a massive simulation engine. Maybe Nessus served some different purpose? The vast quantities of “milk” which we also know as Vex “mind fluid” might suggest that Nessus was a place for Vex to... live? Reproduce? Think of Industrial Zones and Residential Zones in Sim City, just on a massive alien robot scale.