Dark Sector Lore

[OriVerda]

Since Dark Sector is undeniably a large part of the Warframe universe in some aspects I decided to watch a few walkthroughs and read up only to find that it is one freaking vague game. Like seriously. Ok I admit I was distracted by other things at certain intervals but by jove it is like I missed everything!

 

Can someone give me a good summary of Dark Sector, maybe chapter to chapter and character to character?

 

I know there's the wikia but it is not in a healthy shape from the looks of it. DE should start a Corpus-style hostile takeover and set things right.

Edited March 29, 2014 by OriVerda

[suadumpy]

It's not in my nature to present spoilers.

My only advice is that you go play Dark Sector for yourself.

[NevanChambers]

it's been years since I played it so I'd have to do it again to give you a synopsis. I will say that it is definitely worth a playthrough and can be gotten pretty cheap. If I recall correctly it isn't terribly long either. 

[Kinperor]

There's not much that actually relates to Warframe. 

 

There's that infection which spreads out and create metal zombies, and Hayden Tenno needs to stop it for MURICA. 

 

He then steps into a "vault" at the end and find the ultimate metal creature hivemind, that would be used to awaken other metal creature throughout the world by the villain. That is the titular "Dark Sector", that was shoe horned in because DE was pretty much forced to re-write the story. 

 

The rest as I recall is personal drama. 

[Kwinne]

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[Mcl_Blue]

You're not really missing much. From the get-go, you're thrown into the character and setting with no explanation for anything, and the game never really bothers to explain anything as you go along.

 

If you go to Hayden Tenno's page at the Dark Sector Wiki and read the Biography section, you'll not only be informed of the bulk of Dark Sector's plot, you'll also have quite a bit of additional information that the game doesn't give you.

 

EDIT: And whatever you can't gather from that has also been summarized by Kinperor above, so there.

Edited March 29, 2014 by Mcl_BlueMadness

[Morec0]

Here's the walkthrough I've been watching to catch up:

 

 

The guy moves a little fast at some points later on, so things like logs playing in the background become difficult to hear, but all in all it's a good walkthrough and worth watching. I'd also advise checking the Dark Sector wiki for more in-depth info.

[.Talia.]

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On Earth during the cold war, the United States invented something called the Technocyte virus. It remained unused and largely untested for a number of decades until 'The Agency' sent a submarine with infected aboard it to the Russian island of Lasaria. A supposedly rogue member of The Agency named Robert Mezner, a specialist in 'nanotechnology as it applies to bioenhancement' was sent to Lasaria secretly to test and propagate the virus amongst its citizens.

 

Another Agency Operative named Hayden Tenno was sent to Lasaria to kill Mezner and was quickly attacked by Nemesis, essentially a prototype Warframe made of Technocyte or a similar nanotechnology that looks like Nyx in Warframe and was worn by a woman who was working with Mezner. Nemesis infected Hayden with the same modified strain of the Technocyte virus that Mezner used on himself.

 

At this point, most of the game of Dark Sector plays out. Hayden reacted uniquely to the virus as it only mutated his right arm/shoulder visibly as well as spawning a Glaive from his technocyte-organic flesh. For other humans and animals, the pain quickly drove them to insanity and they mutated into horrible monsters with techno-organic parts or entire bodies. Hayden's congenital analgesia made him not feel pain, something that was likely the reason the virus did not drive him mad.

 

At the end of the story, Hayden acquired another prototype Warframe (that uses the same character model as Excalibur Proto-Armor in Warframe), defeated Nemesis and Mezner (who was driven mad by the virus) and survived the traitorous Agency. Even so, the Technocyte virus ended up being released into the world either through Mezner's efforts or intentionally by the Agency.

 

While the virus itself was not airborne it still spread over the planet Earth and consumed most fauna, either killing creatures or turning them into monsters. Humanity survived and managed to colonize other planets and cosmic entities in our solar system. Hayden Tenno is the only one known to have assimilated and adapted to the Technocyte virus at this time. It is unknown if he had children of his own.

Edited March 29, 2014 by RexSol

[Tesseract_The_Pariah]

 

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On Earth during the cold war, the United States invented something called the Technocyte virus. It remained unused and largely untested for a number of decades until 'The Agency' sent a submarine with infected aboard it to the Russian island of Lasaria. A supposedly rogue member of The Agency named Robert Mezner, a specialist in 'nanotechnology as it applies to bioenhancement' was sent to Lasaria secretly to test and propagate the virus amongst its citizens.

 

Another Agency Operative named Hayden Tenno was sent to Lasaria to kill Mezner and was quickly attacked by Nemesis, essentially a prototype Warframe made of Technocyte or a similar nanotechnology that looks like Nyx in Warframe and was worn by a woman who was working with Mezner. Nemesis infected Hayden with the same modified strain of the Technocyte virus that Mezner used on himself.

 

At this point, most of the game of Dark Sector plays out. Hayden reacted uniquely to the virus as it only mutated his right arm/shoulder visibly as well as spawning a Glaive from his technocyte-organic flesh. For other humans and animals, the pain quickly drove them to insanity and they mutated into horrible monsters with techno-organic parts or entire bodies. Hayden's congenital analgesia made him not feel pain, something that was likely the reason the virus did not drive him mad.

 

At the end of the story, Hayden acquired another prototype Warframe (that uses the same character model as Excalibur Proto-Armor in Warframe), defeated Nemesis and Mezner (who was driven mad by the virus) and survived the traitorous Agency. Even so, the Technocyte virus ended up being released into the world either through Mezner's efforts or intentionally by the Agency.

 

While the virus itself was not airborne it still spread over the planet Earth and consumed most fauna, either killing creatures or turning them into monsters. Humanity survived and managed to colonize other planets and cosmic entities in our solar system. Hayden Tenno is the only one known to have assimilated and adapted to the Technocyte virus at this time. It is unknown if he had children of his own.

 

I'd like to think he made a strain of his own that I would dub "TennoCyte", which gives other people powers, and likely has reduced pain.  We as Tenno could be infectees or the children of infectees.

[Morec0]

Figured I'd build off of what RexSol said:

 

 

Just finished watching a Dark Sector playthrough, and here's what I've pieced together:

 

 

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Mezner's attempt to activate/collect all the Infected went through successfully, partially due to the fact that the Technocyte developed its own sentience somewhere along the way because of his tampering (hence how Mezner was seemingly reanimated after Hayden killed him) and it was able to continue the transmission. For whatever reason, Hayden was able to resist it, so he was able to go on to do whatever he did while it spread across the rest of the world - I base this off of the final line being "that was how it started"; SOMETHING began that day, and without a strong indication that Hayden was able to STOP the transmission from collecting the Infested I think we can assume that it was whatever Mezner (or, perhaps, more appropriately: the Technocyte Virus) was out to do.

 

So what we then have are the humans of earth fighting against a new breed of monster. Millions were likely wiped out, leaving only a handful (comparatively speaking) that, like Hayden, were able to resist the greater infection to some extent (maybe not have powers as well, but were at least not consumed by it). They grew, and over time they became strong enough to forge and Empire (the Orokin Empire) - humanity was changed in its coming, now they were the Orokin (which is why it could be said, by them looking back and thinking of the previous humans not as a separate thing but as Orokin as well to some degree, the Orokin (humans) developed the Technocyte - that or it was later rediscovered by them). Around this time you also had the formation of the original Tenno Order, in whatever form it came in.

 

THEN enter the Sentients, and whatever they are, to wage war against the Orokin. The war goes HORRIBLY wrong for the Orokin, and so they turn to the Tenno order, take children with the highest concentration of Technocyte in them (and, by extension, the most likely to develop some sort of powers) and sent them into the Void to try and supercharge those powers or get them to mature to some degree - or perhaps this all happened BEFORE the Sentients showed up and they were simply looking to test out a few theories with Orokin test subjects? We'll have to see.

 

Either way: the war rages, the Tenno and their Orokin-created Warframes fight back. It rages for years, and in that time the Tenno develop their own society within the Orokin, which leads to the production of new Tenno with different powers (via Sci Fi genetics) and to the Tenno design of Warframes (the regular frames, in contrast to the Orokin Prime). The Tenno are victorious, they then turn against the Orokin for whatever reason, and then lock themselves into cryosleep.

 

Fast forward thousands upon thousands of years into the future: the Tenno begin to awake, their memories damages/completely wiped by the extended Cryosleep (versus the in-out sort of sleep the Stalker presumably had that allowed him to last this long), and find themselves where we are now. Making the decisions that we make now.

 

It will take more lore to fully determine what adds up and what needs alteration, but I think this is as good a place as any to start with a chronological progression.

 

[Drakontis]

I just bought and downloaded the game on Steam... And it has the MOST AWKWARD control scheme I have ever used.