Destiny – Vex
The Vex are a cybernetic alien race of unknown origin in Destiny’s universe. “When the world does not match their eternal pattern, they alter the world to suit it,” Golden Age scientist Clovis Bray tells players. “There is no difference between reality and simulation to them. Inside is the same as outside, and the two must be made to correspond.” They are Destiny’s Borg, but unlike Star Trek’s pale fleshy monsters, they are sleek, metallic, and almost lovely.
Lovelier still to shoot, smash, and blow up. Destiny is renowned for its tactile enemy death animations, and the Vex are no exception. Shoot a Harpy in its eye and it screams like a server rack hit by a freight train. Destroy the Vex core inside a Goblin and it explodes in a splash of white like a gallon of milk. It’s the only way to stop them from rewiring the cosmos to fit their small minds. —Ethan Gach
