**This spoils Corridors Of Time so any lore Guardian who wants to see it unfold, please don't read any further. Bit of a long post too**
Okay, so, its my understanding that the Vex don't travel through time in the conventional way we understand or talk about. They don't just travel through time, change something, and boom, the problem they face never happened in the future. They build giant supercomputer machines like the Infinite Forest or Vault of Glass to simulate every possible decision and every possible consequence of every decision that could ever be made. They however, can't fully simulate the paracausal (Light, Darkness, Ahamkara wishes, etc.)
A quick example would be the Vex simulating infinite futures where we all wake up progressively later and later for work for whatever reasons they may be. Even complete and utter random happenings beyond our individual control are taken into account. And that entire simulation or "universe" basically runs until, I assume, the end of "time" that is simulated by the Vex.
However, all of that takes place WITHIN the actual Universe. Those simulations take place in what are basically supercomputers. Our current Saint-14 is a product of those simulations. We know that the simulations can simulate living breathing creatures so saving a simulation of Saint-14 wouldn't be impossible or unheard of.
However, to my understanding, what should be IMPOSSIBLE by standards set is how our original and still very dead Saint-14 came into possession of the Perfect Paradox. Our Guardian didn't travel through time in actual reality, only through simulated realities that thereby aren't real. I know it's name is the perfect term to the whole situation. But if you connect the dots even a little bit, it starts to sound more and more like the actual Destiny Universe operates just like an everyday Vex simulation.
Unless I'm missing something. Then again, I have the worst habit of applying logic to fiction 😂
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Like you said, the vex can’t really simulate light or dark. So this definitely isn’t a simulation, since the light’s all over the place.