[Duviri Plane speculation]

So these are just my thoughts.

Duviri Paradox = 2 Man Virus Paradox

In the video at Tennocon you can see the operator being ripped from the warframe on the Empyrean ship. We see the operator as young. We then see the "older" operator looking at the wrecked ship(Zariman Ten Zero) with the same scars trying to use his powers against the rider on the "horse".

My speculation is that older operator is our original form and he went in to the future. Our past self is stuck in the future. In the video it shows the young operator placing the weapon in the hole in the past(old operator remembering when young operator placed weapon in the hole) that helps the old operator in the future(the weapon is pulled out looking crusty).

The paradox part is the future/past operator is helping the past/future operator... creating a paradox.

Maybe the young operators are the virus. Maybe the young operators were sent back in the past by the sentients and lotus changed the mission. Maybe the young operators were sent back in the past to infect everything or make changes to the future. I'm thinking there is a machine in the citadel connected to cetus and the plains that if activated can change the gate to go to a different time. I'm thinking Onko broke it and now it is set on our current timeline.

Onko Quote

• "Every choice closes off an infinite number of possible futures. The Amp you craft, then, is unique in all the multiverse. Where you end, and it begins? An unanswerable question. Research. Craft. Assemble. Strive to answer the unanswerable."

• "Which string will you pluck. Which note will you sound? Play well, and the universe dances."
• "Time is relative. Choose when ready."
• "I see permutations tumbling, resolving behind your eyes, beneath your skin. Exquisite!"
• "Once, long ago, I would look backwards, feeling for the fading tendrils of our might-have-beens. But those avenues are closed now, too far gone. Instead, I comfort myself with the music of the universe and the sense of her close by. Her choices brush against me, like the arm of a passing stranger, and I am... happy."

What if we are spreading the virus across the system with those little pink cyst on our necks? Maybe we were in cryo because we had the virus and maybe that is why our ship has an infested "detoxing" room.