The Lore Of The Game.(Warning: Long Post)

[YashiroSora]

Note: The following is a personal interpretation and may not be considered the hard fact and is based on personal speculate and may not cover every detail. Any questions may be asked and i'll try answer to the best of my ability(Please read in detail the post before any inquiries). Use your own judgement when reading it.

 

Introduction

It is recognised that the Orokin are the creators of the Warframes and most of the technology as we know it. So the game 'Dark Sector', is the earth time that precedes the Orokin ruling age. We see the 'Proto-armor' of what seems to be the Excalibur and Nemesis which looks like Nyx and a rather bulky 'Jackal'. What i interpret from this is that: 

 

Possible Routes

a) the people during the time who created the suits and the Technocyte virus (e.g. Robert Menzer), were the group of people that came to be known as the 'Orokin'.

 

b)The Orokin are another extra-terrestrial race which adopted the technology this group of humans had created.

 

How things came to be

The Orokin had replicated the earth technology as the virus spreaded throughtout the earth, and as a certain time frame passed we humans took refuge in space to escape the plague. At one point the Sentients had come, some of us are taken in as the last hope for the Orokin, only to be their end in the last.

 

More of the Possibility B, the Orokin had replicated the Technocyte virus as a mass bio-weapon and reverse-engineered the technology of what would be the base/prototype(Hayden Tenno's suit) of their  Warframe. They most likely met Hayden Tenno, the only human at the time who owned such technology(Nemesis was destroyed earlier) and used it as a base, and recognised the humans(the only one who can operate them) as the Tenno, with Hayden being the human predecessor for such technology and as in honour to him, the first Tenno.

 

As for the Tenno of the Golden Age, the Stalker was a low guardian of the Orokin(possibly the low-end of an high-rank officer). His recount shows that we(as a Tenno race/faction) had betrayed the Orokin (and is why the Corpus call us 'the Betrayers' as the Corpus practically worship the Orokin) and that our fore-runners had defeated the Sentients. Other Intel also shows us the Technocyte virus was spread to combat the Sentients and affected all living things

 

Moving on to how our Warframe exo-suit came to be. Here's how i think it started and why are there so many Warframes in existence, sometimes seen as duplicate(e.g the Excalibur in 'The Profit' Trailer). The prime 'variants' of the Warframes(Ember,Rhino,Excalibur etc.) are not only special versions but are the 'Original' Warframes produced. The Warframes are crafted as a Prime in the first production, with Excalibur being the first made as it is based of the Proto-armour. The 'standard' version of the suits are ones reversed-engineered off the Orokin as a replica to the prime model, by the work of the Tenno Council at the time, after the Golden Age. The Warframe Nova was a stand-alone concept by the Tenno High Council and Valkyr by an attempt to reverse-engineer and craft their own Warframe.     

 

The Stalker's own exo-suit is presumably a base of a older warframe model before it become the actual production, and looking at the frame-work structure, it is a test frame with several abilities mixed into one frame, and using the body of an Excalibur and a different helmet.

 

The Warframe suits however while are life support against the virus, are not air-tight as we require oxygen, the suits dont produce that, only filter the air so it is breathable, explaining why we can breath on the now toxic earth and dusty planets. The suits also seem to be semi-organic, meaning they possibly could be crafted partly with similar materials as infested flesh as well.

 

The Tenno

Us as humans most likely are infected by the virus in a similar manner to Hayden and not yet deformed by a large percentage of the body, but are taken to the Void and the effects of the virus are postponed by the Orokin, as we use the suits they gave us, doubling as their new small army, and our own life support to the virus in which why we must wear the suits all the time or at least a full body form-fitting suit, sterilised, and recognise us along the same category as Hayden.

 

The Grineer

The Grineer are a branch of the human, presumably soon after the Golden Age, they formed an empire and began cloning at some point to keep up with their expanding territories, from which the original person used is unknown to us. 

 

The Corpus

The Corpus are the 3rd branch of humans, based off old-earth mercantile guilds and to a large degree worship the Orokin. Explainable as, the Prime weapons like the Warframe counter-parts, are the original version of the weapon. The reason as to why we see weapons such as Braton or Lato Prime even though they are of Corpus creation, is that the Corpus try reverse engineer(and fail at a point to make perfect) Orokin technology, the prime example being Valkyr(no pun intended). Other examples include, the Jackal Prototype, somewhere the Orokin probably have the old blueprint of the bulky version of the Jackel we see in Dark Sector which the Corpus found  and replicated, as well as the Flux Rifle, which is a Corpus Laser Rifle with the safety off, a homage to the Fusion MOA's laser and trap orbs in the Void Towers.

 

The Infested

Fully infested organisms by the Technocyte virus, mutated gruesomely into abominations. Because we are infected with the same virus the Infested, as to why the J3-Golem says,"Why do you destroy us? We are your flesh."

 

Other Factions

Factions such as the Red Veil had appeared and likely that there are other branches of humans existing, not only Corpus men and Grineer clones. They are apparently small in population and minor to our life of facing super-heated plasma, millions of hot lead, and sharp claws.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Xs-138

[Sixty5]

That's cute

The Orokin

• Former humans who transcended their physical bodies through technology, becoming nearly godlike in the process.
• Many levels of higher level though. An Orokin entity could play multiple matches of chess at once, focussing on each, while at the same time reading a stack of books and holding a number of conversations.
• Still had physical bodies, kept in storage similar to Tenno cyropods, consciousness still linked to this body.
• With their greater technology and nearly limitless mental capacity the Orokin took full control of the Origin system , and soon began to take systems further out. However the huge distance scope required that the physical Orokin body be transferred to these systems (Limits of mental range and interface)
• Because their bodies remained in permanent stasis the Orokin were functionally immortal. Over time they lost their connection with the physical world and their old morality.
• Human lives to them became fleeting flashes of activity, mere specs in their infinite perception.
• Because of this the Orokin empire became one of Tyranny and oppression, prone to their individual obsessions and collective passions.
• Citizens within the Empire were subject to extensive mental conditioning leaving them under the control of the empire.
• Most of the Orokin moved their physical bodies to the void after its discovery as the nature of that space allowed for Zero width connections to the normal plane of reality, giving them nearly limitless mental scope (see point about bodies needing to be moved to other systems)
• Prompted the construction of the void towers.
• A number of the original Orokin believed that they no longer required their original bodies, choosing to discard them to "truly become immortal". This proved to be a mistake, as those who did so lost their sense of self. These self-less individuals coalesced into what is now referred to as the Neural Sentry, a presence that once pervaded all that the Orokin created. Since the collapse it has been confined to the Towers within the Void. It is incredibly hostile to all who enter, and seeks to destroy anything it cannot bend to its will.

The Sentients

• Another post-physical race hell bent on conquest. Their technology and ability was much beyond the Orokin, and so any forces deployed against them were either wiped out or taken over, ironically due to the mental conditioning imparted by the Orokin.
• First contact consisted of the Sentients completely sterilising an Orokin controlled system, and in the process the first true deaths of the Orokin race.
• System by system the Orokin forces, and their numbers fell. Many weapons were created, but none succeeded in slowing the tide of the Sentients. Around this time the Technocyte plague was weaponised and unleashed in the form of the Infestation, as a form of a scorched Earth policy.
• Some tried to escape into the void proper, taking with them whole colonies. The connections back on their former planets were simply severed, trapping there for eternity, left to face the terrible maelstrom of void energies. None were ever heard from again.
• Systems would quickly fall to the Sentients, but they would still take a "long" time to travel between systems. This passage of time was negligible for Post Physical beings such as the Orokin, but still meant that the conquest of their systems was over a period of nearly a century.

The Tenno, and the Lotus

• Orokin within the Origin System began a program to develop ships that could pass through the void and re-enter normal space without the need for anchor points, as a means of escaping the seemingly unstoppable sentients.
• Some of the data they received was that of a set of humans children sent into the void on a ship unshielded from the void, and what had become of them.
• The process was repeated in order to create super-powered soldiers capable of fighting off the Sentient advance and destroying them
• The first set of these warriors received the typical mental conditioning of the time, and the first time they were sent into battle they suffered the same fate as every previous attempt to fight back. The ones that had not been sent to fight were kept near where the Orokin were based, where a stronger mental link meant that they could resist the control of the Sentients. They became known as the Lower Guardians.
• A new set of warriors were commissioned, they were to be free of the Orokin control, the first in ages. Instead one of the Orokin was to preside over them personally. In doing so the presiding Orokin decided to return to her body, a rare, but not of unheard of occurrence.
• The Orokin had long passed the need for names, but the trainees who were to become Tenno gave their lady the name "The Lotus" because of the shape of her head-dress (needed to maintain connection to her expanded mentality). The Lotus liked this, and began to see the Tenno as her children. As their training went on and the Lotus spent more and more time in her physical body, thoughts and feelings long distant began to return, though the Tenno were a necessary for the fight against the Sentients, the thought of what had been done to mere children brought her unease.
• As time went on and more and more Tenno were trained, having proved that they were the first things the Orokin had sent against the sentients that could hold their own, slowing the advance and then halting it right outside the Origin system.
• The Orokin pushed for more Tenno, creating an army ten thousand strong their leaders elevated to near Orokin status, being given elaborately finished Warframes in the process.
• The army of Tenno pushed back, fighting the Sentients and destroying their fleet entirely. No more attacks came.
• About this time the Lotus had come to her final conclusion, her fellow Orokin were Tyrants, not the benevolant rulers that they had long believed themselves to be. They were just as bad as the sentients, they had to be stopped.
• The Tenno Appeared at the Terminus, and all the remaining Orokin returned to their Physical forms to give their thanks to their saviours.
• Before the return the Lotus had contacted each of the returning Tenno, a plan was formed, on the ninth beat of the Naga Drums, they would attack, and restore balance to the systems
• On the ninth beat the Tenno drew their blades and slaughtered the Orokin, their enhancements proving no match for the war hardened Tenno. The remaining lower guardians sprang to the aid of their masters, sluggish due to the lack of their link to the Orokin, they also proved no match.
• Within minutes the Orokin had fallen, but for the Lotus, who spoke to the onlooking citizens of the now former empire, informing them of their freedom, and promising that both she and her Tenno would return when they were once again needed. And with that they left. The Lotus retuned to the Void and the Tenno moved throughout the system routing out the last pockets of Orokin resistance, and then falling cryosleep, ready for when they were needed once again to bring peace and balance to the system.

 

Warframes

• Developed by the Orokin
• Began with a strain of Technocyte that would amplify the innate powers of those who would bear it and give them structure
• Sample was engineered from the tissue of Tenno, Hayden, whose body had long been kept in cryo for study.
• Strain of Virus was identified as the Tenno strain, this is where the name originates
• Simple T-Cyte armour worked well but was upgraded with electronics and additional plating.
• Building a Warframe:
  • Trainees showing void adaptions are exposed to Tenno-strain Technocyte in order to channel and amplify their "natural" powers
  • Systems are fitted later to trained Tenno, sensor suites, shielding, energy cells etc
  • Raw active Technocyte mass is then applied, meshes with both the systems and T-cyte of the Tenno, creates the neural interface
  • Armour plating is then bonded to areas of the suit to provide additional protection, this also bonds with the Tcyte
  • Finally the Tcyte mass is returned to a dormant state, locking in the currently held proporties. If damaged it will return to this state given time to regenerate.
  • Helmet designs are based on different interface systems that change certain aspects of a Warframe.
  • Due to the link between the suit and Tenno the warframe acts as a second skin, rather than a simple armoured suit. A warframe boosts a Tennos already increased physical traits, protects them and offers a greater ability to channel and focus their powers, whilst making them easier to use.
  • A tenno without their frame can still use some of their abilities, but at a much greater physical cost, and with less precision, and control over said powers. However without the suits restraints Tenno powers can reach truly awe inspiring levels. During the war with the sentients, a Nova nearly destroyed an entire planet when she converted half of an enemy attack force into antimatter. The unpredictability of their powers in this state is why many Tenno rarely fully remove their Warframes, lest an unconscious gesture do unthinkable damage.

The Void

• The very nature of the void prevents it from being truly accurately described, it exists outside of our perception, another plane of reality superimposed over the one we live in.
• It is a maelstrom of energy, and is perceived by human senses as an overload, blinding white light, insane pressure, deafening roaring etc.
• Unshielded from the raging energy within, matter will begin to decay, being ripped apart by the void storm. The amount of time this takes is dependent on what energies are acting upon the object in question. Energy distribution within the void is non-uniform, chaotic, and entirely unpredictable
• Objects that are shielded can however exist inside the void. For an object to be shielded it must exude a cloak of its own energies, stronger than those in the void that act upon it.
• Within the void there is no here or there, no location, no direction. Objects within it will begin to dimensionally degrade as well as materialistically degrade, shielding however keeps the order of the object intact.
• The void can be accessed by creating a "tear in reality", a hole in the fabric of spacetime. The larger the hole the more energy required to do so. Reality resists destruction upon any scale, hence void tears are quickly closed when depowered.
• An object that has entered the void cannot be found again unless it has been anchored to this reality somehow. This is done in most cases by having an anchor attuned to the object within the void, connected via a tear smaller than an atom. By focussing upon this frequency, an object can return to the anchorpoint. Conversely the anchorpoint can be used as a focus for a portal to be opened to that void location.
• Because location within the void is irrelevant interesting possibilities are opened. For instance a ship with an attuned anchorpoints in different locations can jump between them instantly using the void as intermediary, the only constraints being the energy needed to have said ship enter the void and then exit it.
• A second concequence of this is that a set of two paired generators opening connections to the void at the same time will connect with one another and form a passage within space-time. Again the larger the passage the more difficult it is to maintain.
• The Orokin upon discovery of the Void integrated it into a number of their technologies. Within the void they built towers, shielded from the storm within the void. These could be accessed via specialised keys attuned to the tower. The Orokin primarially used these as a base, the connections through the keys allowing the Orokin within to exist in many faraway places at once. The orokin also created the solar rails, great constructs that allowed for near instant travel throughout the systems. However, it was found that the rails were rather more limited in scope than towers and keys, as the larger the portal, the lesser the distance it could cover. An infintessimally small connection could span the distance between systems easily, but a larger connection, needed for individuals or ships to pass lessened in scope rather quickly. In many places within systems it was found that way-stations had to be constructed in order to facilitate transport, leading to the Solar Rails gaining their name.
• Formorians
  • The Formorian class of warship deployed by the Grineer represented such a major threat for the system not because of their size, or armaments. Instead the Formorians were the first ships since The Collapse capable of surviving perpetually within the Void. Their massive size was in most part was due to the machines needed to shield the ships from the void, and to transport them within. Because of this a fleet of Formorians, when ready, could disappear into the Void at will and strike anywhere at any time with only the barest hint of warning.
  • Thankfully each time the ships have neared deployment the Tenno have managed to take them down from within and prevent them from raining destruction upon all who oppose the Grineer.
  • Technology for the Formorians was unceremoniously torn from Orokin derelicts, and crudely repurposed. The resources required to do so were enormous, but with an empire the size of the Grineer's it is unsurprising that they managed to (apparently) accomplish such a feat.
  • As of now, no Formorian class warship has ever entered the Void.
• All factions have at some point discovered Void keys, and in most cases have activated them and sent scouts within. These scouts now defend the Orokin towers, having been corrupted by the Neural Sentry (See Orokin Section)
• All Warframes come equipped with a small Void generator, and rudimentary shielding from its energies. The purpose of which is to facilitate the Tenno entering the void on their own violition, and for storing ammo. The shielded pocket within the void is frequently used to hold captured targets, however using it as such has no guarantees for the survival of the subject within the pocket. The small void connection is also used tactically by a number of Tenno. Ash and Loki Warframes have the ability to turn a target at a distance into an anchor, allowing for teleportation.

Warframes

• Female Tenno seem to have a greater affinity for binding their powers to a specific aspect than their male counterparts.
• All tenno technically can use any ability, however training and the Warframe channel their energies towards a specific path, set out by the original individuals who showed affinity towards a specific aspect early on (read ember codex)
• Originally the Orokin believed that Tenno powers were focused upon one aspect or another, with some having powers that did not manifest according to any aspect.
• Exposed potentials were tested for these affinities, and then trained according to them, as well as having their Warframes based upon these ideals.
• Research on how these powers could be used however was done starting at around the 7th generation of Tenno. This lead to the creation of new Tenno with the same affinity, but a different skillset. Both Mag and Nova class Tenno had electromagnetic affinities, but different methods of training and augmentations made them very different Warframe classes.
• Initially it was felt that Males would make better physical front line soldiers, with Females providing support in the manner of superior firepower.
• Early tactics had the enemy engaged by the soldier class frames whilst the heavy hitting frames provided artillery support, protected from combat. This tactic seemed to work well, and with the Orokin unwilling to risk destruction , it was rarely deviated from

[BrotherIcarus]

It is rather sad that this is an in depth interpretation of the lore.

[YashiroSora]

-snip, snip-

As said i have not covered everything because it is vast but i believe i have done at least 80%. I am also not trying to cover the technology of the suits themselves on how they work in every situation, i'm covering the Lore.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Xs-138

[Sni7ch]

As said i have not covered everything because it is vast but i believe i have done at least 80%. I am also not trying to cover the technology of the suits themselves on how they work in every situation, i'm covering the Lore.

 

But Sixty5 did a damn good job covering lore. 

[YashiroSora]

I find it good as well, but it troubles me when i see people say "But only Tenno weapons can get primed", "I dont know why a Braton is Prime'd because its a Corpus weapon", and yes while Sixty5 did a good job i feel his/hers is more on the technological standpoint, mine's more history and how one thing connects to another, and some of his/her points seemed flawed....

Edited May 8, 2014 by Xs-138

[Tengu147]

 

That's cute

The Orokin

• Former humans who transcended their physical bodies through technology, becoming nearly godlike in the process.
• Many levels of higher level though. An Orokin entity could play multiple matches of chess at once, focussing on each, while at the same time reading a stack of books and holding a number of conversations.
• Still had physical bodies, kept in storage similar to Tenno cyropods, consciousness still linked to this body.
• With their greater technology and nearly limitless mental capacity the Orokin took full control of the Origin system , and soon began to take systems further out. However the huge distance scope required that the physical Orokin body be transferred to these systems (Limits of mental range and interface)
• Because their bodies remained in permanent stasis the Orokin were functionally immortal. Over time they lost their connection with the physical world and their old morality.
• Human lives to them became fleeting flashes of activity, mere specs in their infinite perception.
• Because of this the Orokin empire became one of Tyranny and oppression, prone to their individual obsessions and collective passions.
• Citizens within the Empire were subject to extensive mental conditioning leaving them under the control of the empire.
• Most of the Orokin moved their physical bodies to the void after its discovery as the nature of that space allowed for Zero width connections to the normal plane of reality, giving them nearly limitless mental scope (see point about bodies needing to be moved to other systems)
• Prompted the construction of the void towers.
• A number of the original Orokin believed that they no longer required their original bodies, choosing to discard them to "truly become immortal". This proved to be a mistake, as those who did so lost their sense of self. These self-less individuals coalesced into what is now referred to as the Neural Sentry, a presence that once pervaded all that the Orokin created. Since the collapse it has been confined to the Towers within the Void. It is incredibly hostile to all who enter, and seeks to destroy anything it cannot bend to its will.

The Sentients

• Another post-physical race hell bent on conquest. Their technology and ability was much beyond the Orokin, and so any forces deployed against them were either wiped out or taken over, ironically due to the mental conditioning imparted by the Orokin.
• First contact consisted of the Sentients completely sterilising an Orokin controlled system, and in the process the first true deaths of the Orokin race.
• System by system the Orokin forces, and their numbers fell. Many weapons were created, but none succeeded in slowing the tide of the Sentients. Around this time the Technocyte plague was weaponised and unleashed in the form of the Infestation, as a form of a scorched Earth policy.
• Some tried to escape into the void proper, taking with them whole colonies. The connections back on their former planets were simply severed, trapping there for eternity, left to face the terrible maelstrom of void energies. None were ever heard from again.
• Systems would quickly fall to the Sentients, but they would still take a "long" time to travel between systems. This passage of time was negligible for Post Physical beings such as the Orokin, but still meant that the conquest of their systems was over a period of nearly a century.

The Tenno, and the Lotus

• Orokin within the Origin System began a program to develop ships that could pass through the void and re-enter normal space without the need for anchor points, as a means of escaping the seemingly unstoppable sentients.
• Some of the data they received was that of a set of humans children sent into the void on a ship unshielded from the void, and what had become of them.
• The process was repeated in order to create super-powered soldiers capable of fighting off the Sentient advance and destroying them
• The first set of these warriors received the typical mental conditioning of the time, and the first time they were sent into battle they suffered the same fate as every previous attempt to fight back. The ones that had not been sent to fight were kept near where the Orokin were based, where a stronger mental link meant that they could resist the control of the Sentients. They became known as the Lower Guardians.
• A new set of warriors were commissioned, they were to be free of the Orokin control, the first in ages. Instead one of the Orokin was to preside over them personally. In doing so the presiding Orokin decided to return to her body, a rare, but not of unheard of occurrence.
• The Orokin had long passed the need for names, but the trainees who were to become Tenno gave their lady the name "The Lotus" because of the shape of her head-dress (needed to maintain connection to her expanded mentality). The Lotus liked this, and began to see the Tenno as her children. As their training went on and the Lotus spent more and more time in her physical body, thoughts and feelings long distant began to return, though the Tenno were a necessary for the fight against the Sentients, the thought of what had been done to mere children brought her unease.
• As time went on and more and more Tenno were trained, having proved that they were the first things the Orokin had sent against the sentients that could hold their own, slowing the advance and then halting it right outside the Origin system.
• The Orokin pushed for more Tenno, creating an army ten thousand strong their leaders elevated to near Orokin status, being given elaborately finished Warframes in the process.
• The army of Tenno pushed back, fighting the Sentients and destroying their fleet entirely. No more attacks came.
• About this time the Lotus had come to her final conclusion, her fellow Orokin were Tyrants, not the benevolant rulers that they had long believed themselves to be. They were just as bad as the sentients, they had to be stopped.
• The Tenno Appeared at the Terminus, and all the remaining Orokin returned to their Physical forms to give their thanks to their saviours.
• Before the return the Lotus had contacted each of the returning Tenno, a plan was formed, on the ninth beat of the Naga Drums, they would attack, and restore balance to the systems
• On the ninth beat the Tenno drew their blades and slaughtered the Orokin, their enhancements proving no match for the war hardened Tenno. The remaining lower guardians sprang to the aid of their masters, sluggish due to the lack of their link to the Orokin, they also proved no match.
• Within minutes the Orokin had fallen, but for the Lotus, who spoke to the onlooking citizens of the now former empire, informing them of their freedom, and promising that both she and her Tenno would return when they were once again needed. And with that they left. The Lotus retuned to the Void and the Tenno moved throughout the system routing out the last pockets of Orokin resistance, and then falling cryosleep, ready for when they were needed once again to bring peace and balance to the system.

 

Warframes

• Developed by the Orokin
• Began with a strain of Technocyte that would amplify the innate powers of those who would bear it and give them structure
• Sample was engineered from the tissue of Tenno, Hayden, whose body had long been kept in cryo for study.
• Strain of Virus was identified as the Tenno strain, this is where the name originates
• Simple T-Cyte armour worked well but was upgraded with electronics and additional plating.
• Building a Warframe:
  • Trainees showing void adaptions are exposed to Tenno-strain Technocyte in order to channel and amplify their "natural" powers
  • Systems are fitted later to trained Tenno, sensor suites, shielding, energy cells etc
  • Raw active Technocyte mass is then applied, meshes with both the systems and T-cyte of the Tenno, creates the neural interface
  • Armour plating is then bonded to areas of the suit to provide additional protection, this also bonds with the Tcyte
  • Finally the Tcyte mass is returned to a dormant state, locking in the currently held proporties. If damaged it will return to this state given time to regenerate.
  • Helmet designs are based on different interface systems that change certain aspects of a Warframe.
  • Due to the link between the suit and Tenno the warframe acts as a second skin, rather than a simple armoured suit. A warframe boosts a Tennos already increased physical traits, protects them and offers a greater ability to channel and focus their powers, whilst making them easier to use.
  • A tenno without their frame can still use some of their abilities, but at a much greater physical cost, and with less precision, and control over said powers. However without the suits restraints Tenno powers can reach truly awe inspiring levels. During the war with the sentients, a Nova nearly destroyed an entire planet when she converted half of an enemy attack force into antimatter. The unpredictability of their powers in this state is why many Tenno rarely fully remove their Warframes, lest an unconscious gesture do unthinkable damage.

The Void

• The very nature of the void prevents it from being truly accurately described, it exists outside of our perception, another plane of reality superimposed over the one we live in.
• It is a maelstrom of energy, and is perceived by human senses as an overload, blinding white light, insane pressure, deafening roaring etc.
• Unshielded from the raging energy within, matter will begin to decay, being ripped apart by the void storm. The amount of time this takes is dependent on what energies are acting upon the object in question. Energy distribution within the void is non-uniform, chaotic, and entirely unpredictable
• Objects that are shielded can however exist inside the void. For an object to be shielded it must exude a cloak of its own energies, stronger than those in the void that act upon it.
• Within the void there is no here or there, no location, no direction. Objects within it will begin to dimensionally degrade as well as materialistically degrade, shielding however keeps the order of the object intact.
• The void can be accessed by creating a "tear in reality", a hole in the fabric of spacetime. The larger the hole the more energy required to do so. Reality resists destruction upon any scale, hence void tears are quickly closed when depowered.
• An object that has entered the void cannot be found again unless it has been anchored to this reality somehow. This is done in most cases by having an anchor attuned to the object within the void, connected via a tear smaller than an atom. By focussing upon this frequency, an object can return to the anchorpoint. Conversely the anchorpoint can be used as a focus for a portal to be opened to that void location.
• Because location within the void is irrelevant interesting possibilities are opened. For instance a ship with an attuned anchorpoints in different locations can jump between them instantly using the void as intermediary, the only constraints being the energy needed to have said ship enter the void and then exit it.
• A second concequence of this is that a set of two paired generators opening connections to the void at the same time will connect with one another and form a passage within space-time. Again the larger the passage the more difficult it is to maintain.
• The Orokin upon discovery of the Void integrated it into a number of their technologies. Within the void they built towers, shielded from the storm within the void. These could be accessed via specialised keys attuned to the tower. The Orokin primarially used these as a base, the connections through the keys allowing the Orokin within to exist in many faraway places at once. The orokin also created the solar rails, great constructs that allowed for near instant travel throughout the systems. However, it was found that the rails were rather more limited in scope than towers and keys, as the larger the portal, the lesser the distance it could cover. An infintessimally small connection could span the distance between systems easily, but a larger connection, needed for individuals or ships to pass lessened in scope rather quickly. In many places within systems it was found that way-stations had to be constructed in order to facilitate transport, leading to the Solar Rails gaining their name.
• Formorians
  • The Formorian class of warship deployed by the Grineer represented such a major threat for the system not because of their size, or armaments. Instead the Formorians were the first ships since The Collapse capable of surviving perpetually within the Void. Their massive size was in most part was due to the machines needed to shield the ships from the void, and to transport them within. Because of this a fleet of Formorians, when ready, could disappear into the Void at will and strike anywhere at any time with only the barest hint of warning.
  • Thankfully each time the ships have neared deployment the Tenno have managed to take them down from within and prevent them from raining destruction upon all who oppose the Grineer.
  • Technology for the Formorians was unceremoniously torn from Orokin derelicts, and crudely repurposed. The resources required to do so were enormous, but with an empire the size of the Grineer's it is unsurprising that they managed to (apparently) accomplish such a feat.
  • As of now, no Formorian class warship has ever entered the Void.

• All factions have at some point discovered Void keys, and in most cases have activated them and sent scouts within. These scouts now defend the Orokin towers, having been corrupted by the Neural Sentry (See Orokin Section)
• All Warframes come equipped with a small Void generator, and rudimentary shielding from its energies. The purpose of which is to facilitate the Tenno entering the void on their own violition, and for storing ammo. The shielded pocket within the void is frequently used to hold captured targets, however using it as such has no guarantees for the survival of the subject within the pocket. The small void connection is also used tactically by a number of Tenno. Ash and Loki Warframes have the ability to turn a target at a distance into an anchor, allowing for teleportation.

Warframes

• Female Tenno seem to have a greater affinity for binding their powers to a specific aspect than their male counterparts.
• All tenno technically can use any ability, however training and the Warframe channel their energies towards a specific path, set out by the original individuals who showed affinity towards a specific aspect early on (read ember codex)
• Originally the Orokin believed that Tenno powers were focused upon one aspect or another, with some having powers that did not manifest according to any aspect.
• Exposed potentials were tested for these affinities, and then trained according to them, as well as having their Warframes based upon these ideals.
• Research on how these powers could be used however was done starting at around the 7th generation of Tenno. This lead to the creation of new Tenno with the same affinity, but a different skillset. Both Mag and Nova class Tenno had electromagnetic affinities, but different methods of training and augmentations made them very different Warframe classes.
• Initially it was felt that Males would make better physical front line soldiers, with Females providing support in the manner of superior firepower.
• Early tactics had the enemy engaged by the soldier class frames whilst the heavy hitting frames provided artillery support, protected from combat. This tactic seemed to work well, and with the Orokin unwilling to risk destruction , it was rarely deviated from

 

Someone give this Tenno a cookie (or a potato. Whatever floats your boat)! Excellent job, Sixty5. My only problem with it is where you said: During the war with the sentients, a Nova nearly destroyed an entire planet when she converted half of an enemy attack force into antimatter. Nova warframes didn't exist during the Sentient war. Other than that, everything else is pretty spot-on.

[ZyladRow]

Thanks for the warning but...i could not take it and came too see how long it is.

[Sixty5]

Someone give this Tenno a cookie (or a potato. Whatever floats your boat)! Excellent job, Sixty5. My only problem with it is where you said: During the war with the sentients, a Nova nearly destroyed an entire planet when she converted half of an enemy attack force into antimatter. Nova warframes didn't exist during the Sentient war. Other than that, everything else is pretty spot-on.

You sure about that?

 

Apart from the snippet about her being a product of Tenno high council research nothing exists to state that she did not. Said snippet can be interpreted as the Tenno looking more into how their own powers can be focused for other things. 

 

Nova's abilities manifest themselves pretty much in the same manner as Mag's with control of electromagnetism. Combine more precise control with a couple of Anti-Matter generators and hey presto you have Nova.

[Tengu147]

You sure about that?

 

Apart from the snippet about her being a product of Tenno high council research nothing exists to state that she did not. Said snippet can be interpreted as the Tenno looking more into how their own powers can be focused for other things. 

 

Nova's abilities manifest themselves pretty much in the same manner as Mag's with control of electromagnetism. Combine more precise control with a couple of Anti-Matter generators and hey presto you have Nova.

Touché

[YashiroSora]

 

That's cute

The Orokin

 

Nothing to add/change

• Former humans who transcended their physical bodies through technology, becoming nearly godlike in the process.
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• Many levels of higher level though. An Orokin entity could play multiple matches of chess at once, focussing on each, while at the same time reading a stack of books and holding a number of conversations.
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• Still had physical bodies, kept in storage similar to Tenno cyropods, consciousness still linked to this body.
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• With their greater technology and nearly limitless mental capacity the Orokin took full control of the Origin system , and soon began to take systems further out. However the huge distance scope required that the physical Orokin body be transferred to these systems (Limits of mental range and interface)
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• Because their bodies remained in permanent stasis the Orokin were functionally immortal. Over time they lost their connection with the physical world and their old morality.
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• Human lives to them became fleeting flashes of activity, mere specs in their infinite perception.
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• Because of this the Orokin empire became one of Tyranny and oppression, prone to their individual obsessions and collective passions.
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• Citizens within the Empire were subject to extensive mental conditioning leaving them under the control of the empire.
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• Most of the Orokin moved their physical bodies to the void after its discovery as the nature of that space allowed for Zero width connections to the normal plane of reality, giving them nearly limitless mental scope (see point about bodies needing to be moved to other systems)
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• Prompted the construction of the void towers.
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• A number of the original Orokin believed that they no longer required their original bodies, choosing to discard them to "truly become immortal". This proved to be a mistake, as those who did so lost their sense of self. These self-less individuals coalesced into what is now referred to as the Neural Sentry, a presence that once pervaded all that the Orokin created. Since the collapse it has been confined to the Towers within the Void. It is incredibly hostile to all who enter, and seeks to destroy anything it cannot bend to its will.

The Sentients

 

Nothing to add/change

• Another post-physical race hell bent on conquest. Their technology and ability was much beyond the Orokin, and so any forces deployed against them were either wiped out or taken over, ironically due to the mental conditioning imparted by the Orokin.
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• First contact consisted of the Sentients completely sterilising an Orokin controlled system, and in the process the first true deaths of the Orokin race.
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• System by system the Orokin forces, and their numbers fell. Many weapons were created, but none succeeded in slowing the tide of the Sentients. Around this time the Technocyte plague was weaponised and unleashed in the form of the Infestation, as a form of a scorched Earth policy.
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• Some tried to escape into the void proper, taking with them whole colonies. The connections back on their former planets were simply severed, trapping there for eternity, left to face the terrible maelstrom of void energies. None were ever heard from again.
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• Systems would quickly fall to the Sentients, but they would still take a "long" time to travel between systems. This passage of time was negligible for Post Physical beings such as the Orokin, but still meant that the conquest of their systems was over a period of nearly a century.

The Tenno, and the Lotus

• Orokin within the Origin System began a program to develop ships that could pass through the void and re-enter normal space without the need for anchor points, as a means of escaping the seemingly unstoppable sentients.

        Good Point!

• Some of the data they received was that of a set of humans children sent into the void on a ship unshielded from the void, and what had become of them.
• The process was repeated in order to create super-powered soldiers capable of fighting off the Sentient advance and destroying them
• The first set of these warriors received the typical mental conditioning of the time, and the first time they were sent into battle they suffered the same fate as every previous attempt to fight back. The ones that had not been sent to fight were kept near where the Orokin were based, where a stronger mental link meant that they could resist the control of the Sentients. They became known as the Lower Guardians.

Possible as well, but doesnt really explain Stalker, as he wasnt in the group with the Tenno, while being a LowGuardian.

• A new set of warriors were commissioned, they were to be free of the Orokin control, the first in ages. Instead one of the Orokin was to preside over them personally. In doing so the presiding Orokin decided to return to her body, a rare, but not of unheard of occurrence.

          Not sure on the 'her body' but true, the Orokin are reknowned for Neural Hi-jacks.

• The Orokin had long passed the need for names, but the trainees who were to become Tenno gave their lady the name "The Lotus" because of the shape of her head-dress (needed to maintain connection to her expanded mentality). The Lotus liked this, and began to see the Tenno as her children. As their training went on and the Lotus spent more and more time in her physical body, thoughts and feelings long distant began to return, though the Tenno were a necessary for the fight against the Sentients, the thought of what had been done to mere children brought her unease.

          Love this one.

• As time went on and more and more Tenno were trained, having proved that they were the first things the Orokin had sent against the sentients that could hold their own, slowing the advance and then halting it right outside the Origin system.
• The Orokin pushed for more Tenno, creating an army ten thousand strong their leaders elevated to near Orokin status, being given elaborately finished Warframes in the process.

             I say more than ten thousand, i mean there are over a million of us currently.

• The army of Tenno pushed back, fighting the Sentients and destroying their fleet entirely. No more attacks came.
• About this time the Lotus had come to her final conclusion, her fellow Orokin were Tyrants, not the benevolant rulers that they had long believed themselves to be. They were just as bad as the sentients, they had to be stopped.

        Agreed.

• The Tenno Appeared at the Terminus, and all the remaining Orokin returned to their Physical forms to give their thanks to their saviours.
• Before the return the Lotus had contacted each of the returning Tenno, a plan was formed, on the ninth beat of the Naga Drums, they would attack, and restore balance to the systems
• On the ninth beat the Tenno drew their blades and slaughtered the Orokin, their enhancements proving no match for the war hardened Tenno. The remaining lower guardians sprang to the aid of their masters, sluggish due to the lack of their link to the Orokin, they also proved no match.
• Within minutes the Orokin had fallen, but for the Lotus, who spoke to the onlooking citizens of the now former empire, informing them of their freedom, and promising that both she and her Tenno would return when they were once again needed. And with that they left. The Lotus retuned to the Void and the Tenno moved throughout the system routing out the last pockets of Orokin resistance, and then falling cryosleep, ready for when they were needed once again to bring peace and balance to the system.

 

Warframes

• Developed by the Orokin
• Began with a strain of Technocyte that would amplify the innate powers of those who would bear it and give them structure

        Possible.

• Sample was engineered from the tissue of Tenno, Hayden, whose body had long been kept in cryo for study.
• Strain of Virus was identified as the Tenno strain, this is where the name originates
• Simple T-Cyte armour worked well but was upgraded with electronics and additional plating.
• Building a Warframe:
  • Trainees showing void adaptions are exposed to Tenno-strain Technocyte in order to channel and amplify their "natural" powers
  • Systems are fitted later to trained Tenno, sensor suites, shielding, energy cells etc
  • Raw active Technocyte mass is then applied, meshes with both the systems and T-cyte of the Tenno, creates the neural interface
  • Armour plating is then bonded to areas of the suit to provide additional protection, this also bonds with the Tcyte
  • Finally the Tcyte mass is returned to a dormant state, locking in the currently held proporties. If damaged it will return to this state given time to regenerate.
  • Helmet designs are based on different interface systems that change certain aspects of a Warframe.
  • Due to the link between the suit and Tenno the warframe acts as a second skin, rather than a simple armoured suit. A warframe boosts a Tennos already increased physical traits, protects them and offers a greater ability to channel and focus their powers, whilst making them easier to use.
  • A tenno without their frame can still use some of their abilities, but at a much greater physical cost, and with less precision, and control over said powers. However without the suits restraints Tenno powers can reach truly awe inspiring levels. During the war with the sentients, a Nova nearly destroyed an entire planet when she converted half of an enemy attack force into antimatter. The unpredictability of their powers in this state is why many Tenno rarely fully remove their Warframes, lest an unconscious gesture do unthinkable damage.

Nova(Warframe) did not exist then, sorry because the Council most likely formed after the Golden Age of the Orokin as in that Age we are still in their control, and the Council needs to develop a more powerful suit to combat the Grineer, hence Nova, and we cannot use abilities without the suits as you said, we need energy cells for that.

The Void

• The very nature of the void prevents it from being truly accurately described, it exists outside of our perception, another plane of reality superimposed over the one we live in.
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• It is a maelstrom of energy, and is perceived by human senses as an overload, blinding white light, insane pressure, deafening roaring etc.
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• Unshielded from the raging energy within, matter will begin to decay, being ripped apart by the void storm. The amount of time this takes is dependent on what energies are acting upon the object in question. Energy distribution within the void is non-uniform, chaotic, and entirely unpredictable
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• Objects that are shielded can however exist inside the void. For an object to be shielded it must exude a cloak of its own energies, stronger than those in the void that act upon it.
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• Within the void there is no here or there, no location, no direction. Objects within it will begin to dimensionally degrade as well as materialistically degrade, shielding however keeps the order of the object intact.
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• The void can be accessed by creating a "tear in reality", a hole in the fabric of spacetime. The larger the hole the more energy required to do so. Reality resists destruction upon any scale, hence void tears are quickly closed when depowered.
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• An object that has entered the void cannot be found again unless it has been anchored to this reality somehow. This is done in most cases by having an anchor attuned to the object within the void, connected via a tear smaller than an atom. By focussing upon this frequency, an object can return to the anchorpoint. Conversely the anchorpoint can be used as a focus for a portal to be opened to that void location.
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• Because location within the void is irrelevant interesting possibilities are opened. For instance a ship with an attuned anchorpoints in different locations can jump between them instantly using the void as intermediary, the only constraints being the energy needed to have said ship enter the void and then exit it.
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• A second concequence of this is that a set of two paired generators opening connections to the void at the same time will connect with one another and form a passage within space-time. Again the larger the passage the more difficult it is to maintain.
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• The Orokin upon discovery of the Void integrated it into a number of their technologies. Within the void they built towers, shielded from the storm within the void. These could be accessed via specialised keys attuned to the tower. The Orokin primarially used these as a base, the connections through the keys allowing the Orokin within to exist in many faraway places at once. The orokin also created the solar rails, great constructs that allowed for near instant travel throughout the systems. However, it was found that the rails were rather more limited in scope than towers and keys, as the larger the portal, the lesser the distance it could cover. An infintessimally small connection could span the distance between systems easily, but a larger connection, needed for individuals or ships to pass lessened in scope rather quickly. In many places within systems it was found that way-stations had to be constructed in order to facilitate transport, leading to the Solar Rails gaining their name.
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• Formorians
  • The Formorian class of warship deployed by the Grineer represented such a major threat for the system not because of their size, or armaments. Instead the Formorians were the first ships since The Collapse capable of surviving perpetually within the Void. Their massive size was in most part was due to the machines needed to shield the ships from the void, and to transport them within. Because of this a fleet of Formorians, when ready, could disappear into the Void at will and strike anywhere at any time with only the barest hint of warning.
  •  
  • Thankfully each time the ships have neared deployment the Tenno have managed to take them down from within and prevent them from raining destruction upon all who oppose the Grineer.
  •  
  • Technology for the Formorians was unceremoniously torn from Orokin derelicts, and crudely repurposed. The resources required to do so were enormous, but with an empire the size of the Grineer's it is unsurprising that they managed to (apparently) accomplish such a feat.
  •  
  • As of now, no Formorian class warship has ever entered the Void.
  •  
•  
• All factions have at some point discovered Void keys, and in most cases have activated them and sent scouts within. These scouts now defend the Orokin towers, having been corrupted by the Neural Sentry (See Orokin Section)
•  
• All Warframes come equipped with a small Void generator, and rudimentary shielding from its energies. The purpose of which is to facilitate the Tenno entering the void on their own violition, and for storing ammo. The shielded pocket within the void is frequently used to hold captured targets, however using it as such has no guarantees for the survival of the subject within the pocket. The small void connection is also used tactically by a number of Tenno. Ash and Loki Warframes have the ability to turn a target at a distance into an anchor, allowing for teleportation.
•  

Warframes

• Female Tenno seem to have a greater affinity for binding their powers to a specific aspect than their male counterparts.

Women are sometimes said to have more mental capacity.

• All tenno technically can use any ability, however training and the Warframe channel their energies towards a specific path, set out by the original individuals who showed affinity towards a specific aspect early on (read ember codex)

I agree on this, though each set of abilities available is tied in the systems of the suits.

• Originally the Orokin believed that Tenno powers were focused upon one aspect or another, with some having powers that did not manifest according to any aspect.
• Exposed potentials were tested for these affinities, and then trained according to them, as well as having their Warframes based upon these ideals.
• Research on how these powers could be used however was done starting at around the 7th generation of Tenno. This lead to the creation of new Tenno with the same affinity, but a different skillset. Both Mag and Nova class Tenno had electromagnetic affinities, but different methods of training and augmentations made them very different Warframe classes.

Antimatter is not so much electromagnetic, it is on particles, on the lower down the size scale to atoms on the matter levels. Massive power generated is by anti-matter destroying itself when fused with matter, creating an energy-burst. 

• Initially it was felt that Males would make better physical front line soldiers, with Females providing support in the manner of superior firepower.
• Early tactics had the enemy engaged by the soldier class frames whilst the heavy hitting frames provided artillery support, protected from combat. This tactic seemed to work well, and with the Orokin unwilling to risk destruction , it was rarely deviated from

 

 

There are notes within that spoiler which i added.

Thanks for the warning but...i could not take it and came too see how long it is.

This is for those interested. Sorry but i cannot Tl;dr it because it is a subject i cannot summarise, because everything connects.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Xs-138

[Takai]

This is one of the weirdest things Ive read all day, both the spoiler with bullet points and the initial post.

[Ammolds]

CAUTION! The following Spoiler contains an opinion.

Well to me the spoiler sounds more like a "Loose" interpretation of the lore. (close to fan canon)

 

While the OP is about what we have been presented and more fact/evidence driven speculation.

Normally this would cause a split on the topic, but... well.. ok anyway.

 

Both poking in a bit interesting directions and going for a bit too far fetched theories. Spoiler more-so than the OP.

 

Point being: Mweh... we need more lore, DE. ;_;

Edited May 8, 2014 by Ammolds

[Sixty5]

This is one of the weirdest things Ive read all day, both the spoiler with bullet points and the initial post.

I know, Lore is a really strange thing in this game

[YashiroSora]

It weird since there's too big a time gap of the two ages and is anyone's guess, the OP is my possibility.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Xs-138

[SilentMobius]

I'm pretty sure the Dark-Sector-era Technocyte "Living Metal" is the basis for all Orokin technology and that the "Orokin" are a limited set of humans who replaced/infected/coated themselves in their prototype "Forma" based on the technocyte-generated energy-channeling metal. This IMHO explains why the Warframes have such visual throwbacks to the 20th century, the Orokin who created them had been alive since that time, living through the Technocyte apocalypse of old earth and recreating society based on their rule.

 

My rational is detailed here:

 

https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/202045-what-defines-the-orokin-and-what-rougly-did-they-look-like

Edited May 8, 2014 by SilentMobius

[YashiroSora]

Well i agree the Orokin took the Technocyte virus as a bio-weapon, in more ways than one.

[YashiroSora]

Bump for those who may have missed it.

[YashiroSora]

ok that died fast i guess a lot of people missed this. Bump again.