What are they?
What are they for?
How do you obtain them?

1. Vortex Points
2. Requests and such.
3. You obtain them by waiting.

I see, so they are like a reward sort of thing.

The admins have been working out (for a while now) a system on which they'll be earnt. The system hasn't been polished yet - as it nears the best of the testing stages, we'll release it to the rest of Vortex, refine it, and that'll be the full use of the points.