Alright, so I'm going to take the leap and create my own forum post. I've seen a lot of speculation regarding the Exo as a race, and while it's all very interesting, there's one bit of information that I'm unable to track down: To what extent can the Exo feel sensation?
The Exo are, of course, sentient, and to that end are able to feel emotion. Banshee-44 seems to maintain a morose personality with the occasional remark that suggests dry humor. Cayde-6 tends to exhibit some humor, and mild annoyance if the player stands around without engaging him for too long.
A friend and I have pondered this topic a lot and we feel that since Exo can feel emotion, they can theoretically feel the sensations that come with emotion: the pain of heartbreak, the giddiness in the chest that comes with euphoria.
In the Grimoire Card Ghost Fragment: Hive 2, we have the following:
"At the doors to the Temple he fell for the last time. He fell, and I could not reach him.
My own Light flickers.
They took me down into the dark, past tiers of massed Hive, more than we believed could exist. Past grisly nurseries hung with pupae. Past writhing worms that they swallow whole. I saw the armaments of war.
I am weak, so weak.
They have clamped me to this spire while a black foulness eats my Light. The Wizard comes now and then to probe with her scaly claws into my systems, to inquire about my making, the City, what I have seen. I erase and dump as quickly as I can - they will learn little from me - but I am studying them, I know - pain.
Always pain.... "
Now, if a Ghost can feel pain, why not an Exo? Ghosts are born of the Traveler, and Exos were created from knowledge [i]gifted[/i] by the Traveler. They are so complex that nothing short of the Ghosts can understand them, according to the Grimoire Cards.
So have away! Let me know what you think!
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Edited by John6Max4: 1/15/2015 1:48:55 AMThere's a theory going around that Exos were humans or awoken and inserted their minds into a robot making the sentient Exos. Their minds were wiped after the collapse and they all forgot why they were "made". There's a grimorie card that also backs up this theory pretty well. I'm also pretty sure Exo's can feel pain. Emotional and physical. Cayde-6 always has his Reminisces of his past endeavors and you could swear it came from a human in the way he writes it. And if Exos have their own sentient mind they must use it to control and feel their bodies so naturally they must feel pain also.