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Moar weapon lore below the cut, this one's gonna be long
VE's sword is of their own creation, they found an old art book from pre-humanity's destruction (some official game art or something), it being the curious shit it is it looks at it for awhile, finding some cool weapons on a character, it liked the design and added a "side mission" to the objectives list it has to find materials and such to make a functional recreation of the cool characters sword, just below the "Humanity is Dead, Hell is Full, Blood is Fuel" ping that all machines that use blood as a fuel source (primary or not) got one day.
While following the strange mission sent by who knows what, it finds an entrance to Hell (I like to think there's more than one way to get into hell other than the one V1 takes) and desends, eventually reaching a Terminal, and seeing that it can help create the sword, but in exchange for points (the Terminals want entertainment, why not dangle something the machine really wants to get that entertainment) and obviously it agrees and goes on a violent crusade for points, the Terminals loaded the whole point counter and style meter into VE's software, since it was capable of doing so but was never properly connected to the Terminal network since it wasn't really ever ment to go exploring Hell.
The Terminals found its way of fighting quite interesting since it had no firearms of any kind, even Swordsmachines had a gun to go with the sword, while VE was solely a melee fighter, very different and interesting. The Terminals eventually did a scan for it's Model and such to see whats up with it, finding that it was the only Excavar Model in existence, even the V Model had multiple iterations, this obviously made the Terminals curious, so they would keep a figurative eye on this one (and V1 obviously).
VE eventually returned with the points, and some extra blood to spare, the Terminals fulfilled their end of the deal, fabricating the sword it wanted, and revealed that since it was a construction machine they would also exchange points to make more weapons, if it so wished, and VE kept that in mind as it continued it's descent into Hell, just like all the other machines there.
Now some actual facts about the sword itself! It has a special magnet in the hilt that makes it return to VE's hand (think like Star Wars when Jedi use the force to get their Lightsabers back). And it is extremely durable, wouldn't want your only weapon getting destroyed easy. VE has actually named the sword, why? It remembered seeing words on the same art book that it originally saw the sword in, it calls it "Moonlight Edge" as the game the book was connected to was very focused on the moon for some reason.