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originally posted in:The Ashen Conflux
7/26/2017 7:08:59 AM
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Great post. Something that I've always wondered about the vex, is that I feel THEY should've been called the Hive. With how they behave lorewise it would've been the perfect title for them. The hive themselves don't seem to operate with a hive mind. They have a strict, multi tiered hierarchy. The vex are just unthinking drones designed to fulfill very particular tasks. Also, I'm curious to see where the franchise takes the vex as there has to be something at the top. An individual directing the rest of the species towards their eventual goal.
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It is weird that they're called the hive and have Medieval titles.
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Well the Hive were probably named so because they are like a swarm rushing through the universe. The way they breed and fester and grow reminds of a beehive, right? The Vex may have a shared mind, but each one is capable of thought. A single Goblin is intelligent enough to predict the chain of events in several entirely recreated universes at once. They can account for everything, while the human mind can't even predict what can happen in a single room so precisely. Each individual is always thinking, observing, and predicting, and they form a collective mind by sharing all their thoughts with each other. It isn't a hive mind, it's a shared mind
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I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. I've seen or read anything to make me think of lower vex units as being anything more than drones
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I guess they are equivalent to drones, and compared to greater Vex their processing capabilities are puny, but mindless definitely isn't a word you want to use for them
