<I've been looking forward to this... The Vex goal is called "Convergence". It is the reduction of all life to numbers and binary. The Vex basically want to rule the universe and everything in it but by a process of copying, converting, and learning. One method to do this is the Infinite Forest. The Forest is in the hollowed-out core of Mercury, which the Vex converted during the Collapse. It is a machine capable of simulating trillions of realities at once. All of them either super-accurate (for causal beings) or mostly accurate (for acausal beings) or impossible (for REALLY powerful acausal beings). One of the first cutscenes for CoO was Osiris inside the Vault of Glass. This actually a Vex playback of the raid, which Osiris interrupted and attempted to mess up. He gets that part done but the issue comes in while looking into the Network to see if the Vex needed anything else -blam!-ed up. That's when he saw their new plan. Nobody truly knows how the plan would work, but it was a way to destroy or at least live beyond Light and Darkness. A feat deemed impossible by other races except the Hive but that's only because they are naive. The plan was spearheaded by the mind of the Infinite Forest, Panoptes. Panoptes whole purpose was to convert the inner core of Mercury for the Forest while Dendron converted the outer layer. Who is Dendron? The Big -blam!-ing Cyclops. Panoptes had a seemingly unique ability to see Light. As in it could target and then boot it out of the Forest or more. Why that matters is because the Vex cannot simulate true acausality, meaning anything outside the realm of causality. Guardians, because of our Light, are acausal. We can be simulated but until a certain point as the Light makes us unpredictable. The same goes for the Darkness, which is why Taken cannot be simulated as well as Ascendant Hive. However, attempts can be made and that usually creates frightening scenarios. The plan required the Traveler to be awake for some reason. Either they used its activity to further the goal or the wakening made them rush their plans because something else was coming. The mission, Beyond Infinity, is the only mission that makes an attempt to explain what is going on. The Dark Future is one in the far future when the sun has burnt out (but in its current size suggesting sun--blam!-ery probably due to the Almighty) and all life besides the Vex have been eradicated. Part of me calls bullshit because the sky is full of stars but at least in this system, life is dead. When YOU first see Panoptes, the ground shakes and the land below you starts to glow a pink-ish color. All of those pink dots are the eyes of Descendant Vex. That section is essentially every Vex on the planet turning to look at you. We'll get more onto the Dark Future in a bit. Mission 1 - The Vex plan has started, so they sent out units from the future to make it work. Mission 2 - Revive Sagira using stolen Vex tech. Mission 3 - Let Osiris explain what the -blam!- is going on. Mission 4 - Infiltrate the Pyramidion on Io to find a location for a map of the Forest. Mission 5 - Go to that location in the Forest. (In this mission the Cabal are simulated, but in the strike version the Cabal are real and trapped in a timeloop in the Forest) Mission 6 - Go to Nessus and find a mind core capable of giving enough power to read the map, fail, say -blam!- it let's go to the past. Mission 7 - Find Dendron and get the map from it. Mission 8 - Kill Panoptes. The Vex Collective have a lot on their hands. To make sure work is done effectively, it is split into Minds. The Minds themselves command millions of units. For example, the Divisive Mind controls the Sol Divisive, the Vex in the Black Garden. The Nexus Mind controls operations to convert Venus. Argos controls all operations to convert Nessus. Dendron, Root Mind, controls operations to convert (most of) Mercury. All data that the Vex under a Mind get go right back to the Mind. The Mind then stores all of this data, which is why many important Minds are massive. When a Mind is killed, however, the data is lost unless it can be scraped off the ground. By killing Panoptes, the Vex will forget how the plan would go, which should theoretically have ended the Dark Future. Our Guardian leaves this thinking we just saved the universe again. You only saved it from Vex. Enter the Dark Future version 2. This future is only mentioned in the lore tab for Null Calamity 9. I could dissect that name in three different ways but that's not what I'm going to talk about. Osiris sat in the destroyed Lighthouse post-Panoptes and Sagira asked how this future could still be around. Osiris said many equations lead to the same solution. Unfortunately, this future is not as Vexy as the previous version. This time there's something else that survived, a "shadow". This "shadow" is very most likely the thing coming to kill us all in 2 years that we've been getting more and more hints about, thank you Mara. There you go, to the best of my knowledge, I present CoO's premise that couldn't be explained in the story for some reason.>

Vex victory in destiny basically = skynet

It's strange how I got through the entire DLC and didn't actually learn anything about the Vex. All we got was 'Vex simulate things until we stop them'. I was hoping Osiris would tell us about why the Vex want to wage war against the entire Universe. Not having a reason behind their actions makes them really shallow which is a shame because they're my favourite race but we literally have no idea what their deal is beyond "convert everything".

A'ight so here how it be: Them robots be throwing a rave without us and our home boy, Osiris, found them out. But snitches get stitches so they done had to keep him from squealing. Course his main girl, Sagira, got lucky enough to tell us about the rave and let us know them robot haters be hazing home boy. So it was all a big journey to find home boy and kick the rave master's ass for not inviting us to the biggest party in all of time. Oh and there was also a chump named Vance who wouldn't even cross the street to help home boy, wuss.

CoO, aka Court of Oryx, was a fun little ditty we used to play on the Dreadnaught during the Taken King. Sword Knight was my favorite.

Two tokens and a blue

It was a Bungie joke that did not go over well. Kind of hard to "explain" anything in 4 missions so you were suppose to read the much hyped "webcomics". Speaking of webcomics, those sure seemed to disappear in a hurry. Bungie must have finally "listened" to the community and dumped the whole idea. Sorry SJW crowd.

Who cares. COO was the worst dlc in destiny history.