My take on the whole Venus thing is that the Vex are attempting to turn Venus into a Vex processor or computer or something, in order to write themselves into the Universe like the Grimoire says. They aren't trying to prepare it for Rasputin or anything, they are just running their usual protocols. Now, what Rasputin is trying to do is achieve what he was built for (as described by him in the Ghost Fragment: Mysteries), which is to WIN. That's all he cares about. He even references "her" from the Black Garden, which leads me to believe the Vex actually worship, or at least did until the Darkness kicked her out. Which would also explain why Atheon's name means something about going against God, which could mean he is rebelling against the Darkness as the Vex's new adopted god in order to try to return to his goddess.
Now, when Rasputin mentions "her," he talks about how she was stronger than he was because she didn't have to carry the burden of billions of people to protect. So, in order to WIN, he cast off his burden, which was mankind. After doing that, he began to work towards doing everything he could to complete his goal, and he figured out a way to try and integrate himself into the Vex system on Venus, or at least to exert some level of control over it. However, he hasn't managed to accomplish this yet, so he is still trying. That's why he pounced on the opportunity to get into the systems at the Collective after you opened them up for him.
Now, what he plans on doing after that, I have no clue. But I do think that he plans on waging an all out war on the Darkness using every ounce of lost human technology he can take control of, the Vex's systems, and anything else within his grasp. But this time, because of his isolation and his possible rampancy have both caused him to come to the conclusion that to achieve this goal of winning, he must ignore human lives in order to accomplish what he was made for. He sees it as the only way to accomplish his programming.
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the thing is, why are the Vex [i]here[/i]? I can't believe they were just doing their thing, which they could do anywhere in the universe, and we just happened to find them in Venus either they are everywhere already, which is hard to believe, or they have a special connection to our solar system
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The Vet are everywhere and in every time. The reason they are on Venus is so that they can try to convert it like Mercury. If the use these planet sized processors, they hope to be able to exist as far back in time as the beginning and as far forward as forever, and in enough of the universe that they get written into the natural laws of the universe.
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Vex are from Venus. One of the story missions ur ghost tells u they are returning home
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That is Mars that dinklebot says they are returning home to.
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U are correct, realized that after the post
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right. I can only believe they are from Venus if somehow we put them there or caused them to be there (with some sort of time travel mixed in)
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"The ruins on venus predate human existence" another quote from ur ghost
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yeah, that's why I think it's a time travel thing, like the labyrinths in Hyperion