What Is Great In Man Is That He Is A Bridge And Not An End.

[Chrome_Dragon]

And here is my pet theory about a workable timeline for bridging the original Dark Sector, pre corporate meddling, the Dark Sector we saw released, and Warframe.  Dark Sector the product was regarded as a superhero's origin story, so… why not have Hayden traipsing through the solar system as a freelance ninja as originally intended?  Here is my original train of logic, in the form of the bullet points I wrote to myself:

 

Someone in Dark Sector released the technocyte virus with the intention of creating a utopia.

Hayden Tenno was the first, and not the last.

I wonder if those who would become the Tenno are the victims of the T-virus you were fighting early on in Dark Sector?

Outcasts, check.

Warframes created as "conduits for their affliction", check.

Described as twisted, and it's assumed to be by the void.

Perhaps non-technocyte humans can't survive (long, unprotected, or both) in an Orokin tower?

Or perhaps they just wouldn't live long enough to *build* such a structure, for the tower is its own shielding.

What if the technocyte mutates its host in response to the Void conditions, so that they can survive there?

And is this why the Tenno are so badass (and durable)?

Given those assumptions, void-twisted, check.

Suddenly, I can see a Dark Sector trilogy.

Hayden turns into a Moses figure, starts evacuating victims to safe zones, and eventually off-world.

We get to have the pre-executive-meddling armor as Hayden's second warframe.

And the Hayden-In-Spaaaaaaaaace concept.

The next game probably starts with a fully-realized Hayden as the freelance space ninja originally intended, and culminates with the Tenno clan fleeing into the void early in the Orokin era.

In that game, he's driving an obvious predecessor to the Excalibur Prime.

 

The Tenno clan lived happily ever after, until the Orokin came begging them to save their collective asses, and the Tenno realize that they're not safe in the long term, and that their tormentors are long dead.

 

The war with the Sentients could be a single bridge game, or span another trilogy.

It probably culminates in the Betrayal as a final-boss encounter.

Perhaps the Stalker's codex entry is worth quoting, here:  "The Tenno appeared at the Terminus, gleaming and victorious. Our cold and gold Emperors, breathless, bathed you in savior's silk.".  At this point, I should point out that the Stalker's helmet looks a lot like the proto-armor helmet.  Perhaps his guardian's armor was developed in parallel with Excalibur from the proto-armor?  This is a good chance to set up the character of the Stalker, once he's shed the aura of mystery for an air of inevitability.  Heck, maybe we get to have a game starring Stalker detailing the rise of the Corpus and Grineer empires from the ashes of the Orokin.  I'm imagining a characterization rather like a Robin Hood, where the noble parts of his soul wore out after a while, or the dragon-hunter Bitterwood in James Maxey's "Dragon Age" (not to be confused with the Bioware RPG) series.

 

I think the idea that each faction to that point - perhaps even the sentients - are trying to do the right thing as seen from their flawed and limited perspective might be worth exploring.  Back before Stalker started murdering descendants of his enemies and people who committed mindwipe-suicide in flawed cryopods, it could be seen as a noble quest to avenge the solar empire and destroy those who might have a vested interest in waging war against a successor state.  He may even rightly believe that the Grineer high command are the closest thing to a legitimate government left in the solar system, even if they've gone terribly wrong.

 

This line of reasoning leads to a political solution to the Stalker problem - if you can destroy the Grineer's legitimacy in his eyes, perhaps he'd jump ship.  And I, for one, would enjoy a chance to play with his peculiar one-off warframe.

[IANOBW]

tl;dr - I wanna play as stalker

[Orbister]

A lot of work to say "DE i want a playable stalker"...

 

On the other hand i like being one of many tenno, not just that "chosen one" bad &#! action hero with "messianic" status... actually i usually don't like that kind of characters. i would not mind playing another game happening in the Warframe universe though.

[Magicfingers]

so man is a bridge...does that mean man lets everyone walk all over him?

[Chrome_Dragon]

I'm sorry.  Playable stalker is a happy side effect of the actual point - I want to play the game Dark Sector was supposed to be.

 

I also want to know what brought us from Dark Sector to Warframe, and I would enjoy playing even low-budget, single-player games covering important points in that history.

 

TL;dr:  I want some lore already.  :(

Edited March 28, 2014 by Chrome_Dragon

[RyojinOrion]

he is a bridge and not an end.

 

I know someone who would beg to differ...

 

 

 

 

That's all I wanted to say, I'll wander off now... Perhaps I should get some sleep, since it is 4am here... <.<

Edited March 28, 2014 by RyojinOrion