What Are The Tenno Truly?

[Reixis]

We follow lotus without asking questions. We listen dilligently, and absorb her wisdom. She knows what is best, and guides us when we need assistance. Shes always looked out for us, and alerted us when we were outnumbered or if things looked grim. For the betterment of the tenno, we have fought! But, is the betterment of the tenno whats really better for the rest of the universe? Allow me to elaborate.

 

A group of Tenno is called a Cell. (or a squad). 

 

We are VASTLY outnumbered by corpus and grineer. We are a small group of people fighting against large military corporations, and even entire races. 

 

Our missions have led us through exterminations, assassinations, sabotaging enemy technology, Breaking out and TAKING prisoners of war, hacking and processing data, and uploading viruses and other worms into enemy systems. Id even go so far as to say we have probably brought the destruction of Hundreds of thousands of facilities, and taken Tens of Billions of lives. 

 

We kill remorselessly. We spare no one. The friend of my enemy is my enemy, and sometimes this includes our own tenno brothers. (Conclave, clan wars (solar rails), alliances)

 

We steal technology. Lets face it, half of the guns we use are not our own technology, and everytime you dropkick vor across the tileset, he isnt giving you that seer pistol willingly.

 

We have secret bases, hidden at the edges of the solar system, where we cannot be found, or provoked.

 

We have our own black market, and underground trading systems. (What else would you call a trading frequency that is SOLELY tenno, trading nothing but stolen munitions and armaments. 

 

The list of things we know only continues my friends. So the question is, What does the above remind you of? No? Nothing? We arent even faintly reminiscent of say... a terrorist organization? 

 

Maybe we should start asking a few questions about where we came from, and who lotus is...

 

Im not a conspiracy theorist, and this for you to decide, 

next time on WarTheory, we discuss .... something else.

 

With all your unbridled rage and hatred, and warping your concept of warframe, 

This is Reixis, signing off!

Edited April 26, 2014 by Reixis

[Cinderain]

[SoulDust]

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Excalibur/Prime

[Reixis]

So youve both already shown me you didnt read the actual post?

[Cinderain]

I read.

 

I just wanted to make a silly, light-hearted post...

[Reixis]

I read.

 

I just wanted to make a silly, light-hearted post...

I can respect that, but it was an offtopic post. You and your daleks.

[Blatantfool]

 Ancient Orokin Recipe: Tenno.

 

1) One Human being (Preferably a Child that no one will miss~! Best if taken in secret!)

 

2) One Orokin Cruiser, without Voidspace shielding!

 

3) Place Humans inside of Orokin Cruiser. Execute a Voidspace jump. (Autopilot is best for this step! Remember, Voidspace exposure is usually fatal! Store your kids in the Ship's cargo bay!)

 

4) Be extra careful when removing Children, they're no longer actually human and have gone through quite a lot of mental stress!

 

5) Train as soldiers using the LOTUS AI!

 

6) Stick in a Warframe!

 

 

 And you're done! One ready to fight Tenno! Easy as pie!

 

 

 The truth is, Tenno are monsters. Monster the Orokin made with the intent to have Warriors that just can't be overcome.

[Reixis]

 Ancient Orokin Recipe: Tenno.

 

1) One Human being (Preferably a Child that no one will miss~! Best if taken in secret!)

 

2) One Orokin Cruiser, without Voidspace shielding!

 

3) Place Humans inside of Orokin Cruiser. Execute a Voidspace jump. (Autopilot is best for this step! Remember, Voidspace exposure is usually fatal! Store your kids in the Ship's cargo bay!)

 

4) Be extra careful when removing Children, they're no longer actually human and have gone through quite a lot of mental stress!

 

5) Train as soldiers using the LOTUS AI!

 

6) Stick in a Warframe!

 

 

 And you're done! One ready to fight Tenno! Easy as pie!

 

 

 The truth is, Tenno are monsters. Monster the Orokin made with the intent to have a Warrior Caste that just can't be overcome.

But WHY do we want these Orokin monsters?! TERRORISM!!!! XD

[Blatantfool]

But WHY do we want these Orokin monsters?! TERRORISM!!!! XD

 

 Winners dictate what the History books say. If the Tenno wipe out all opposition no one will consider them Terrorists. They'll be heroes. They're only Terrorists if they lose the war.

[Reixis]

 Winners dictate what the History books say. If the Tenno wipe out all opposition no one will consider them Terrorists. They'll be heroes. They're only Terrorists if they lose the war.

..... Touche.

[Blatantfool]

 Honestly, musing about the nature of the Tenno is a lot of fun. Mostly because we've only got scraps of lore to work with, meaning it is all mostly a bunch of clashing personal interpretations.

 

 The Tenno are all meatgrinders. Emotionless, silent, eyeless monsters that sneak into ships and military industrial compounds and absolutely slaughter any signs of life they encounter.

 

 However, you'll notice that the Tenno are a pretty hot target. They don't have many options aside from exercising their talents as Slasher flick monsters.

 

 The Grineer are Xenophobic and would love to wipe out everything that isn't them. The Corpus would rather peel the suits off and experiment then be buddies, they also seem to have a negative history with the Lotus. The Infested are brainless blenders with legs and a bad attitude.

 

 If it weren't for the Civil war going on between the Grineer and Corpus forces - if either side were to win - they'd be able to turn their full attention on the Tenno. Something the Lotus has clearly decided would spell the end, considering she has us intentionally sabotaging every major game-changing effort on either side. 

 

 We survive because we keep the civil war going. As long as neither side wins we can't lose.

[OldGodKing]

Sometimes the answers are just right in front of our faces.

 

Why do the Orokin want these "monsters"? Because why not?

Everybody wants power, no matter how much they try to deny it.

[Ishki88]

 Ancient Orokin Recipe: Tenno.

1) One Human being (Preferably a Child that no one will miss~! Best if taken in secret!)

2) One Orokin Cruiser, without Voidspace shielding!

3) Place Humans inside of Orokin Cruiser. Execute a Voidspace jump. (Autopilot is best for this step! Remember, Voidspace exposure is usually fatal! Store your kids in the Ship's cargo bay!)

4) Be extra careful when removing Children, they're no longer actually human and have gone through quite a lot of mental stress!

5) Train as soldiers using the LOTUS AI!

6) Stick in a Warframe!

 And you're done! One ready to fight Tenno! Easy as pie!

 The truth is, Tenno are monsters. Monster the Orokin made with the intent to have Warriors that just can't be overcome.

 

Have you been playing Fallout? ; )   You're steps remind me of that game..

Edited April 26, 2014 by Ishki88

[Blatantfool]

Sometimes the answers are just right in front of our faces.

Why do the Orokin want these "monsters"? Because why not?

Everybody wants power, no matter how much they try to deny it.

Good to remember that the Tenno slaughtered the High ranking Orokin nobility in revolt, which contributed to the Fall of the Orokin Empire.

That is why the Stalker hates us! He still follows the old way. Something made the Tenno change.

My money is on Lotus as the culprit. An AI meant to train and guide the Tenno to be the best they can be - who would be more likely to decide to free them from being used as slave soldiers?

 

 

Have you been playing Fallout? ; ) You're steps remind me of that game..

Excalibur's lore suggests that the secret to making a Human into a Tenno is exposure to the 'Hellspace'. The Void. No shielding.

Ember's lore is told from the perspective of what we should assume is a group of Orokin Investigators - questioning a Woman who was horribly burned after she found a cruiser full of scared kids. (She attempted to comfort one of them. They injured her. Ember before the suit.)

The Orokin upper class were taking children and throwing them into the Void unprotected in batches. The survivors would mutate to grow powers that each Warframe commands. They raise these children as Soldiers, brainwashed into obedience, and they leave them in the care of an AI - the Lotus - whose task is guiding them in all things.

The reasons there can be so many copies of a single Warframe is simple.

There was only probably a handful of young girls to develop command over flame. These girls were cloned extensively, allowing for an endless army of Ember-clad soldiers.

 

 Also, as you'll note I pointed out above. The Tenno eventually slaughtered that same Orokin Upper-class.

[Cinderain]

You and your daleks.

 

Oh, I just can't stay mad at you.

[Scar.Heart]

 

 Also, as you'll note I pointed out above. The Tenno eventually slaughtered that same Orokin Upper-class.

And then comes the day that Stalker realizes why this massacre occurred.

 

Possible story paths that I see right off the bat:

1. "Vengeance breeds vengeance."

He'll stop what he's doing, having come to know that it was out of the search for justice that the Tenno killed the OE.

 

2. "Birds of a feather, flock together."

Stalker will come to realize that he, too, was brainwashed. This results in either:

2a. An event which the Stalker comes to our aid (temporarily/permanently). The latter making him an unlockable frame? The former giving us a weapon/mod of sorts.

2.b Stalker gets killed making amends for killing the Tenno via some sort of anti-hero sacrifice deal in a fight against X faction

 

3."REVENGE!!!!!"

Stalker will give absolutely zero fucks as to why we killed the OE, as:

3a. The brainwashing is too strong.

3b. He happens to have known about this little project, and supported/lead it.

3c. While the Tenno had a major wrong afflicted onto them, it was not right to extinguish an entire empire, and therefore will still seek us out. This may result in an end-game sort of event where we truly kill the Stalker.

Edited April 26, 2014 by MagnusFury

[Reixis]

Oh, the opportunites for story telling! The way i look at it, is that despite the fact that we face extinction, we are bred for killing. Per say lore-istically speaking, there are maybe 500,000 tenno. 4 Tenno can SHRED a facility into dust, killing thousands. Could 500,000 tenno not adequately wipe out a race? Imagine sending five hundred thousand of us to ONE planet. What is going to get away? Nothing. There is nothing that could stop us from systematically wiping out every planet we land on.

 

Then theres what the mod said about our own slaughtering. We killed the Orokin Classes. We killed not only the enemies, the technocyte, and the armies of corpus and grineer, but we killed ourselves as well. What does that say about us? We sabotage not only everything around us, but we sabotage US. And this "AI" Leads us. The same AI that tells us we need to masacre millions, the same AI that tells us we need to KILL OUR OWN COUNCIL, what happens if this AI decides the tenno are a threat to themselves? Why are we being led by an AI? I question this AIs line of thinking.

Edited April 27, 2014 by Reixis