Vex spex (Destiny)

by roland , Thursday, August 21, 2014, 14:02 (3547 days ago) @ petetheduck

Some Vex speculation here.

There's something strangely religious about the Vex; their sacrifices on Venus, their Burning Shrine on Mercury. We also know they traveled back in time.

I have this theory about Destiny's story that the ultimate ending will involve the loss of the Traveler, in some form or another, and in that Humanity, will have gained the strength to stand on it's own/seek it's own destiny/yada. That Humans will look up from the Last Safe City and instead of seeing the Traveler loom above them, they will see the stars.

What if the Vex, like the Fallen, are seeking the Traveler. But unlike the Fallen that we speculate were left behind and have been following it in real time, the Vex only know of it from the past.. they found out about it somehow, in relics or archives. So they traveled into the past to find it. To our time, to prevent the Traveler from being lost (quite possibly, to directly prevent US from doing something that causes the Traveler to be lost).

What if they're coming back in time to prevent our victory? :D

I like the parity of having a machine race that is also spiritual... very BSG :)

Perhaps the Vex are warping space-time, and not just time? If they are from a VERY long way away, they might have left their home-world as soon as they saw a few reflected photons with something interesting in them coming from our solar system.

A bit of an aside, but has there been any speculation on the parallels between the Traveler and the Leveler (from Myth)? There's a lot of overlap...

"In the world of Myth, the forces of Light and Dark rule the world successively in thousand-year cycles which has repeated since before recorded history. Every cycle climaxes with the arrival of "The Leveler", whose approach (and fall) is heralded by an ominous comet that appears in the sky. The Leveler inhabits the body of the hero who defeated him in the previous cycle — thus the hero who saves civilization is doomed to destroy it."