List of Vex Programmings, what they look like, and where they are.

These are all the Vex Programmings (In alphabetical order): Aphix Invasive: A dark red-bronze color. A Minotaur of the Aphix Invasive programming spawns outside the Nexus during the Nexus strike. Also, they spawn sometimes during public events. Hezen Corrective: A solid color resembling hammered bronze. Swarming across the Ishtar Sink, these Vex aggressively seek out and attack the Fallen House of Winter, perform inscrutable operations around shining Confluxes, and even show interest in the Golden Age ruins left by the Ishtar Collective. Hezen Protective: Gold armor with white markings. The mysterious Hezen Protective is the second major Vex behavioral unit on Venus. Concentrated around the legendary Vault of Glass and the Endless Steps, the site of a massive Vex gate and the access point to the towering Citadel, the Protective's behavior seems very defensive. Sol Divisive: Gray and green with hanging vines and moss. Beyond the towering Meridian Bay gate lies the Black Garden, adrift in time and space. And within the Garden dwell the Vex of the Sol Divisive, frozen in rapture. We have precious little insight into the Divisive's behavior. They seem central to Vex actions in the solar system: the Garden is clearly a place of enormous power. Sol Primeval (Precursors): White with gold highlights, as well as differently shaped heads that resemble framework or simply a more open head. Those who delve deep into the Vault of Glass have seen time itself torn asunder. Awestruck Ghosts report encounters with ancient Vex, their casings built long before the age of humanity. It would be easy to assume these Vex are the ancestors of those we face today - but with the Vex it is never so simple. Sol Imminent (Descendants): Dark, metallic gray with different shaped heads that resemble large, open circles. Survivors of the Vault of Glass report sightings of ancient Vex - ancient in the sense that they have endured for eons. Convergent analysis from multiple Ghosts suggests that these Vex exist in our future. Virgo Prohibition: Dark gray with blue markings. Mars is wracked by an ongoing theater-level conflict between the Cabal and a Vex subtype known as the Virgo Prohibition. These aggressive, relentless Vex constantly test the Cabal exclusion zone, apparently heedless of losses. Also we have Sol Progeny, the three different heads that protect the Black Garden's Heart: The Sol Progeny are a group of three Vex units located in the Black Garden, resembling enormous Minotaurs of similar size to Zydron, Gate Lord. They are individually named Primeval Mind (Sol Primeval), Imminent Mind (Sol Imminent), and Eschaton Mind (Sol Divisive), and they each bear a different head shape. They each appear as a lifeless statue, until the Black Heart summons them to protect itself. Unlike Zydron, these units are built specifically as vessels for the Black Heart, as darkness can clearly be seen emanating from their bodies. Ikora Rey once said: [quote] It is my hypothesis - a hypothesis at best - that the Vex saw the abominable presence at the heart of the Garden as a divine power. I can hear your protest already: how can machines have a god? The answer is simple. The Vex, for all their voracious intelligence, could not understand or decipher what they found. They searched through all available reactions, and they settled on the course with the greatest payoff...to worship this power, and to remake themselves in its image. I believe the three Axis Minds found in proximity to the abomination were Vex machines built to serve as vessels for this power: a way to extend its reach across space and time, binding it to the Vex, and the Vex to it. If they had succeeded, I cannot begin to guess what horrors they would have unleashed. Attend carefully. There is cause for hope. When endangered, the abomination activated these vessels and defended itself. This tells us that it was threatened. Whatever it was, Guardians could harm it. And it activated only a single vessel at a time. Its strength was limited. Whatever it intended, it was not ready yet. We must assume the abomination was part of something greater. And we cannot flinch from the terrible, obvious comparison: just as the Traveller acts through us, this power was able to act through its own servants.[/quote]