So… what powers do the Vex have over time.
In instances like Venus and Neptune, we see the Vex able to insert themselves at an earlier point in time so as to have existed upon a given world for Millions of years.
Yet conversely, we see things like the Vault of Glass suggest that the Vex only have true temporal control over specific areas, like the Vault of Glass. Does this just mean that Vex have absolute temporal control over everything within the Vault of Glass, and that their temporal Hijinks are limited outside of the Vault, or something else entirely?
Then we’ve got the Corridors of Time, Saint 14, and the Undying Mind. From my understanding, the Undying Mind was made Undying because there were Simulated copies of it within the Vex Network that would replace a Dead Undying mind each time it died. Thus why we had to kill it over and over again.
Was this the same situation as Saint 14, where we found a simulated copy of Saint 14 within the Vex Network, and with our power of Light, pulled him out, but if so, how is Saint existing outside of the Vex Network, and how does he have access to the Light? The Vex can’t predict Light and Paracausal based entities, only record (ie an event happens and they can recreate that event down to the atom, but they can not predict when or how a Paracausal event will happen) so it’s not a recreation of a Ghost. Meaning it has to be a temporal remnant of Saint 14. But how can we have that outside of the Vault of Glass where again, it was suggested that the Vault was the only location of Absolute Temporal Control that the Vex had.
Honestly, Vex Time Stuff has always confused me to no end.
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I blame Osiris for all the Saint-14 stuff. Bungie could have went more in depth in Echoes but Saint-14 himself is a temporal paradox. He has his light because he breaks time just by being here. He’s the same Saint-14 we first meet and due to that paradox at some point our character was supposed to die in Saint-14’s lifetime. That has yet to happen. Or again maybe Bungie fired the person who was crafting that. As far as the Vex are concerned it’s never made much sense to me how we can even stop them. We are talking trillions of simulations. It’s just video game mechanic McGuffins that we even “stop” any of the Vex plans. I mean they are the first beings ever created and originally existed on a higher plane of existence before coming here. That whole flower game nonsense. So far all we know there’s entire galaxies out there that are just Vex minds simulating.