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11/29/2025 6:03:02 PM
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Why Don't Vex Utilize Darkness?
Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe we've seen any faction or even single unit of Vex that has used Stasis, Strand, Resonant, or Nightmare power / technology.
Not even the Sol Divisive care to integrate Darkness into their units, with their closest connection to it being the Black Heart from years ago.
Even Maya hasn't used Darkness weaponry for her Choral Vex .
Maybe this is more of a gameplay thing, but every other race so far has had at least a minor connection to Darkness power in some way.
((Fallen have used both Stasis and Strand across different houses, Cabal Shadow Legion use Strand and Resonance shielding (Barant Imperium probably has more Darkness weapons), Dread and [Dire] Taken are pretty obvious, and Hive use all kinds of things like Nightmares, Ascendant Realm stuff, Resonance probably, Wrathborne (not sure if that counts), and others.))
So anyway, is there a lore reason why Vex don't use Darkness in their weapons or other technology?
I might not have the firmest grasp on the concepts of Stasis and Strand, but anything or anyone should technically be able to wield them right?
Why don't the Vex throw units at the issue like The Guardian did until they learn to master these powers?
And I know right now they're using the Echo, through Maya, to learn and possibly seize paracausality, but why don't they capture and study Taken, Dread, Lightbearers including Hive? They sort of did this in the past, and it probably wouldn't yield anything, but it could lead to them creating Light-suppressing technology like the Cabal did.
Speaking of, how did the Cabal make such tech before the Vex?
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My understanding is not only do the Vex not use any Paracausal (i.e. Light or Darkness) powers (yes, they do those damage types in game, because game mechanics, but I'm talking lore-wise), but they fully cannot comprehend them and (most) actively dislike them. To (most) Vex prediction is everything, and by definition Paracausality is unpredictable: not "Takes a Matrioshka Brain to compute so quasi-unpredictable", but actually, truly impossible to predict. And the Vex [b]hate[/b] that, because it then means they cannot plan, and their entire dominance is based on predicting what you will do and already having a plan in place to counter it. If they used any Paracausal power, they would themselves be introducing an unpredictable element into theior own predictive models, and that is anathema to (most) or them. So by my understanding it's not a technological limitation that prevents the Vex from using Paracausality, but an intellectual/behavioural one. And yes, the '(most)s' are all in reference to the Sol Divisive who you had already identified: they came to the conclusion that since Paracausality ruined every prediction and made a foe truly dangerous, well, if you can't beat them, join them; and they were exiled from the rest of the Vex and excised from the Vex Network because of that. It's literally where the 'Divisive' in their name comes from; their decision that led to them dividing from the rest of the Collective. But in terms of the suppression-tech; that tech might well be itself rooted in Paracausal sources. The Psions have an ancient connection to Nezarec, and the Cabal have also encountered the Hive (whose tech is Darkness-linked) before they encountered humanity; in Duality it is revealed that Caiatl's name bares the Hive prayer-word 'Aiat' intentionally, and that she was named after a star, so that name must be fairly ancient in-universe. Thorn-darts are known to consume the Light (it was a modified recovered Thorn Dart that was used to kill Sundance in Forsaken), and they are linked to Hive tech. If Light suppression does require some other source of Paracausality (aka the Darkness), that is the most likely reason the Vex don't have any.
