[Infested Liches: The Apex Strain]

I can not describe in words how much I would love to have infested liches.

I love the ideas you have, and, heres hoping, DE might actually take some of your ideas and implement them if they do decide to make Infested liches. Cause this sounds not only awesome, but also a way to enrich the lore of the Sol System and its inhabitants in Warframe.

[The Halo Universe vs The Warframe Universe]

Scenario 1:

Despite the bulk of Halo and Covenant ships that may invade the Sol System, the Grineer and Corpus outproduce them both very easily. They may have weaker ships, but that doesn't mean they have weaker units.

The UNSC and Covenant, if they both decide, at once, to invade the Sol System, they will obviously fight each other while fighting the other factions. Logically, they wouldn't do this at all. In fact, the UNSC would actually very much favor the Corpus to give them their advance plasma weapons. I personally believe that the most basic plasma weapons (minus the Plinx) is on par with some of the best plasma weapons wielded by the Covenant. The reason for this is because the Corpus want to sell stuff to gain a profit (that is their religion). The Covenant, on the other hand, will not make anything that can outdo Forerunner technology, this includes weapons and shielding, something the Corpus are always experimenting and improving upon. 

Now if it is a 1 on 1 fight. Like Grineer vs UNSC and Corpus vs Covenant. Honestly, the Warframe factions will wipe the floor with them by sheer numbers alone. 

The UNSC typical units are the average sized, strength, and dependable Marines with standard issued steel plate armor, assault rifle, two handy-goshdarn-dandy grenades, and magnum (or Halo 2 pistol if they're feeling spicy). Compare that to the typical Grineer Lancer units. They weigh roughly in at 1 single ton from just the armor alone. Are able to hold onto a wire and slide down it with only one hand without falling. Carry either a Hind or Grakata, which in terms of size can easily be a much larger caliber than the standard issue weapons the UNSC gives their Marines. They also have grenades which aren't as hand-goshdarn-dandy, but they do their job somewhat well.

The UNSC would have difficulties even landing on Mars or Earth with the sheer number of these heavily armed combat units. It also doesn't help that Mars and Earth (in most places) are not very vehicle friendly. Cetus is the only real place the UNSC could properly land and launch an assault against the Grineer, but it wouldn't be very successful to begin with. While the Grineer most likely will lose a lot of troops thanks to the much better air support the UNSC has, they won't actually feel it, they are bred to fight and die. They know they are extendable. The UNSC however has natural born troops who can't be as easily replaced. The space battles, as seen from the Railjack missions, would be much more devastating to the UNSC since there, the Grineer has a lot more unit types, crew ships, and the typical Grineer Galleon ship is roughly 4000m (4km), which is larger than a vast majority of the UNSC ships. Combine that with the Crewships and At Home advantage for the Grineer in this new Earth and Mars, the UNSC are going to be soundly defeated before they can land properly and set up good bases to defend with. The Grineer are everywhere on their planets, so hiding is very difficult, which is why there is only one place on earth that the Grineer don't know the location of, which is Iron Wake.

Vehicles won't really matter if the places they are put in won't work or won't fit. The Grineer Bombards and Heavy gunners alone could make having vehicles a dangerous option to even consider. Honestly, the only thing the UNSC has going for them is their slightly more advance tech (aka, not as crude as the Grineer). But they are soundly outnumbered and their infantry and a lot of space fighters are outmatched. They would have to rely on specialized units and even the Spartans to help. But I don't think the Spartans would be able to stand up in the sea of bullets that would come their way in a Grineer Outpost.

Corpus vs Covenant.

This one isn't even fair for the Covenant. The Corpus have shown that they have much more powerful weapons than that of the Covenant. Such as the weapons that can recharge without having to be put on a battery station, or their Arca Plasmor shotguns that would push through a majority of the Covenant's main battle units. The worst thing for the Covenant is that a majority of their vehicles are obsolete since the Corpus mainly have air and space dominated areas, places that are extremely cold, requiring a different suit so that they don't die, and uphigh places. All of these makes it very difficult for stuff like the Scarab to be considered or used. While the Covenant has Banshees and Phantoms, the Corpus don't seem to struggle with that at all. Teleporting in units on Orb Vallis and more.

In terms of weapons and Shielding, the Corpus outclass the Covenant and that comes down to the religions they both follow. For the Corpus, it's about money, the more money they get the better. The best way to get a lot of money is to constantly improve and make your weapons and items better. Their main philosophy is that stagnation is death. The Covenant, on the other hand, are very stagnant, the exact opposite of the Corpus. They don't improve upon their weapons at all, to do so would be heresy as it would mean they are making weapons better than the Forerunners. The Corpus outproduce any invasion fleet the Covenant would throw at them. Their walkers outnumber Grunts with ease and with a lot better plasma and laser weaponry, it wouldn't be close to fair for any of the Covenant. The Hunters are a lot harder to shake off, but the On-board Raknoids and specialized units from the Deadlock Protocol would make it more difficult for Hunters to operate well.

This is a very oversimplified version of this, and since I am from the future I know more about Corpus and Grineer weapons and armor and such. So I won't be going into everything.

Scenario 2:

Complete and utter stomp for the UNSC and the Covenant.

The current Warframe Factions already have legs above their competition, but put in some legendary warriors? This will be even smoother. Yes, there will be a lot of causalities, but honestly the Spartans wouldn't stand a chance against Warframes. None. Period. It isn't even really open for debate at this point. While yes the Spartans may be better at hand-to-hand combat, honestly Warframes rarely need to do such a thing. If at all. Warframes like Atlas and Rhino would just curb stomp Master Chief and even Jorge and Emile into the ground with how strong they are. 

Warframes have the best weapons of any faction. They will outmatch the Grineer, the Corpus, the Covenant, the UNSC, the Flood, the Infestation and arguably the Forerunners in some regards. The Spartans are top of the line soldiers, don't get me wrong, but as seen in Halo: Reach, they aren't invincible, rather the opposite. If the Covenant can dispatch a team like Noble Team and be victorious, a squad of 4 Warframes could easily take on multiple fire teams of Spartans.

This is because Warframe, at it's core, was designed to be a horde shooter. That's why the Grineer, Infested, and Corpus have so many units. The Warframes would easily put dents into the UNSC and Covenant Fleets. The Spartans may cause havoc on the ground, but if the Grineer have a good reward for hunting down and killing the Spartans, then I have to say, the Spartans and top of the line elites won't stand a chance.

Scenario 3:

The Infested alone could take out the Flood. It is much more adaptable and doesn't have limitations to what it can infect. The Flood can only infect things with a nervous system, the whole "Logic Plague" is literally just the Flood "telling the truth" (Small rant: Why the heck does everyone believe the first gravemind to be truthful? It's a parasite for crying out loud, it can just as easily lie about everything. It doesn't have to tell the truth, it is just convincing.) The Flood may spread rapidly, but with the Infested already being looked at, honestly the Flood wouldn't be that hard to contain or control for the Warframe universe. So honestly it would be the same containment procedures as the Infested. Destroy the ship and everyone aboard.

The Sentients would destroy the Flood, the UNSC, and the Covenant with ease. They are highly adaptive to technology and will easily make it work against the respective factions or just not at all. From laser weapons to their ability to resist most forms of attack, it wouldn't be that hard to see why the Flood and other factions would fall to something that give Warframes issues.






If this is the entire Covenant throwing itself at the Sol System, they would honestly win, that is way too much for only 9-10 planets to handle at once.

Same goes for the UNSC. However, neither side is dumb enough to do such a thing. Cause they know that if they lose too many units and ships, the other side will win.

[Spartans Vs Tenno]

I have arrived from the future!

Atlas has punched a meteor that could completely destroy Earth in a single punch!

I rest my case.