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6/18/2024 11:16:57 PM
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Are the Nessus Vex Developing Individuality?

I had considered making this post the previous week when I heard a voice line where Failsafe mentioned individual Vex units seemed to be communicating with each other. But I completed this week's storyline, and the Nessus Vex are up to all sorts of strange behavior. Vex units breaking formation. A trio of Minotaurs staggering shields in combat like Titans and going straight for a Hunter's Ghost when they appeared to resurrect her. Seemingly building sandcastles. A Vex Hobgoblin excitedly waving at a Guardian (before a Titan blew it to smithereens). A Hobgoblin running when it spots a Guardian. A Vex Minotaur breaking its own radiolaria container to dump its contents into the radiolaria after being damaged. Another thing the entry made clear, which is true in gameplay but something I didn't notice before, was that only the Nessus Vex have the energy collars on them. The Precursor Vex you see throughout Echoes activities, on the other hand, lacked the collars. In fact, other Vex showed up and wiped out the collared ones, ripped out the radiolaria cores, and were going to go back through a portal with them. Before a Titan Thundercrashed them. So far, the Echo that crashlanded on Nessus seems to be causing drastic changes to the Vex residing there, and the rest of the Vex Collective seem to be trying to get things under control. Whether this new, potential individuality is due to the Echo fragment, or a product of our mysterious figure from the trailer harnessing the Echo to gain control of the Vex, we'll just have to wait and see.
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  • Individuality would be a bit more difficult on a single Vex frame, as it contains many individuals inside working together. Based on the design and the trailer where Saint-14 has the collar around his neck, it most likely is a "yoke" as I have heard it described, which is typically seen on animal trains such as horses or oxen. My first thought is that they are being manipulated manually, either by subjugation (hence the yokes) or it could be altering their senses so that commands are given in opposition to what they intend to do, sort of like reverse psychology. As for the party responsible, the collars appear as an Ishtar symbol which was also found in the secret room at the end of the Star-crossed exotic mission, along with new voicelines in the Micah-10 Ghost mission for Insight Terminus regarding MSund12.

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