Who would win in a war: the Hive or the Vex?
The Hive have the Sword Logic, the Taken, and the Worms on their sides, the Logic letting them become gods or "more of gods than they were originally" with each ultra powerful deity slain ((which many Vex could be considered as)), the Taken infecting anything and bending it to Oryx's Will, and the Worms apparently granting them immortality. Though the Hive have a foil and an anti-foil:
The Hive's foil is that they may have to resort to slaying powerful deities within their own ranks if the Vex they face do not meet the victim standard for the Sword Logic, and the Taken could be disabled if Oryx is killed.
The Hive's anti-foil is that the Vex have the ability to infinitely respawn themselves, which means infinite fuel for the Sword Logic and becoming indefinitely more powerful than the Vex.
The Vex have assimilation, dimensional travel, and inter-dimensional communication on their side, assimilation allowing them to copy virtually anything that is not paracausal they see as useful additions to their own ranks and worlds ((prime targets of assimilation would be Hive beings like Oryx and Hive places like throne-worlds)), the dimensional travel enabling them to spawn any version of any Vex being from any timeline/dimension into another, and the inter-dimensional communication allowing them to call upon whoever they need within their ranks summoned into whichever dimension. Though the Vex have a foil and an anti-foil:
The Vex's foil is that if they don't call the right shots against an unexpected action made by the Hive, they could be eternally doomed across all dimensions.
The Vex's anti-foil is that they can use their inter-dimensional communication to supposedly know every course of action that would naturally be made by the Hive, this letting the Vex virtually call all the right shots against Hive unsupported by any foreign species/legion unfamiliar to their ranks.
Feel free to let me know if I put down any wrong info on either team!
EDIT: All deities of the Hive and Vex are still alive. Pretend there were never any other factions; only those two.
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Edited by MrAardvark: 7/27/2016 4:03:01 PMI would have to go with infinite war. I'm going to say that if I had to pick a winner I'd go hive because one of the vexes main advantage is the ability to run millions of simulations of possible outcomes but just like the guardians Oryx is paracausal, meaning that he is his own reason for existing, and cannot be simulated by the vex minds meaning that they don't know what could happen. One their two largest advantages is gone (the other being the ability to time travel). This is the reason that Oryx originally beat the vex when they invaded his throne world. The only reason the we, the guardians, were able to beat him is that we are as I mentioned earlier also paracausal. In short, almost nothing that obeys the laws of causality can defeat Oryx. EDIT: Oryx being paracausal means that destroying any past instance of Oryx, Auryx, or Aurash would not destroy present day Oryx. Since present day Oryx is his own reason for existing.