Corrupted Ancient Synthesis Lore Is Out

[Kaokasalis]

Yarr, here there be lore.

 

"she´s dead," said Dax Menz, growing impatient,

 

"No, she´s not.," I knew it.

 

Our shuttle touched down in the ancient city center of New Uxmal for the second time in two days. We rushed to the entrance of the lowerchambers, a labyrinth of tunnels carved into the rock. Behind us marched a full complement of bodyguards and Moas.

 

Menz asked again, "How can you be sure?"

 

"We´ve been connected for a century and a half, I´m sure" It felt odd to be speaking aloud about something that Ramballa and I had always just kept between us. That feeling of attachment, that anxiety that welled up within one of us when the other wasn´t right. That emptiness I felt when I thought they´d killed her and the joy when the connection came rushing back this morning.

 

We were twins bred for purpose, cloned and then modified so that we could both interface with the Lora Device. The Orokin had a visage imbued with variation, beauty and symmetry, but we had the Lora nodes protruding from our right temples. Their skin was silken, ours was weaved with ribbons of metallic facia that snaked around our bodies and into the Lora Device embedded in our palms. We made them uncomfortable and they made that known, that is until they were sick or hurt and then we were saviors. That never bothered me though, I loved my sister and we had each other. I wasn´t about to leave her in the middle of this nightmare.

 

Hesitation was building in Menz´s face. I had command authority but if he balked, the soldiers would follow him. I needed to force his support, "If you were Tenno, there´d be no question."

 

"The betrayers..." he stopped himself. "Look, Remballa´s gone. The Infested killed her yesterday, we both saw it." His frustration was building, " Damnit, this was supposed to be a relief mission, we can´t-"

 

"It still is a relief mission." I interrupted, "You want to go back to retirement Menz, or are you still a Dax" I knew that stung.

 

Menz stiffened. He´d been cast aside before. He wasn´t about to let duty slip through his fingers again. Menz stared into me, "Are you willing to risk becoming one of those things for a feeling?"

 

I nodded, the answer was yes, for this feeling.

 

"Very well Lorist Ontella," Menz turned to his squad. "Ready up."

 

We entered the subterranean passage, weapon lights illuminated chiseled red stone as we marched deeper into the blackness, past shops and apartments, all caved into the rock eons ago. This city was as old as Mar´s atmoshere. Everything was silent, save for the occastional snap of bone under a soldier´s boot. Three days ago this was a busy thoroughfare, now bloodied scraps of clothing littered the route like confetti. We emerged from the tunnels into cavernous arcadem the Old Marked Road. This is where she had led me.

 

"We´re close," I said.

 

"Here they come," shouted Dax Menz and creatures began to drive at us from every door and window. All teeth and claws and eyes that looked looked so familiar, what kind of animal has eyes like that?

 

"Square formation!" Menz commanded. We backed up to a wall and the Moa´s moved to form a perimeter, with the bodyguards behind them and me in the middle.

 

I closed my eyes and focused the device, through it I could feel each one of the bodyguards. A sergeant was slashed through the leg and I directed my energy toward him, his wound closed and he resumed fighting. Acid spit burned another soldier´s chest, I pushed energy to her, eased the pain, then reversed the damage, She would live. This was so much harder without Remballa. Another soldier was bit on the throat, he´s dying, there was nothing I could do, so I ease his pain and let him go. The rate of fire slowed, had we pushed them back?

 

i opened my eyes to see the Moa+s beams incinerate the last few attackers. I was drained. I wasn´t a combat Lorist, remballa and I were relief workers, used in disasters and outbreaks, not this.

 

I felt a surge of that familiar connection, Remballa´s energy pulsed through me. "She´s coming," I shouted.

 

"What?" Dax Menz head whipped around to look at me.

 

"I dont know," I said pointing at a hall exit, "she´s coming, from that direction."

 

"More Infested!" Shouted a soldier who motioned to the same exit.

 

A mess of figures shambled forth. These were different, bigger and slower. I could feel my sister in there somehow, it was so strong. The Moa´s opened fire. I wanted to tell them to stop but how could I? I felt plasma beams burn the creatures and the I felt Remballa heal them. Why? Multiple connections now, I felt her many times over, it didn´t make sense, until it did; she was those things, all of them. They took our fire and kept coming. I felt her, no them, shudder as bullets ripped through flesh and then as flesh was made new again. they were Lorist Infested, my sister the healer, remade as monster and here to kill us.

 

More rushed in. I felt the healing in them too. I focused just as the first wave broke through our lines. Moa´s were toppled, soldiers were tackled, teeth tore flesh. I was overwhelmed, I couldn´t conttrol it, their pain fed back through me and I collapsed. Something´s jaws latched onto my foot. Infection pulsed into my veins.

 

And then i felt it, a new presence, another healer? I´d felt this before, was it, it couldn´t be... I opened my eyes only to be blinded by an intense flash, followed by a crash, like a thousand crystal goblets all being shattered at once. All went silent, the Infested were dead. I felt nothing now.

 

My eyes readjusted. I was surrounded by bodies. I saw something run away, a streak of silver and gold. It shot straight up the cavern wall and out into the sunshine above.

 

I didn´t have time to think, I took a breath and a wave of pain surged through my entire body. The Infestation had already taken my leg, soon it would claim the rest of my body. I didn´t care, my sister was gone, this was my time.

 

A shadow cast itself over me. I looked up. It was Menz, alive, he stared down without speaking and then unsheathed his massive combat blade and raised it high above his head.

 

"Menz wait," I mumbled, "Im I´m sorry."

 

With sudden and sure force his blade sliced down and through me. I contorted in with the pain.

 

His hands grabbed my shoulders, "Heal yourself!"

 

The adrenaline must have struck at that moment because i bolted up, still stunned, he had cut the infected leg clean off.

 

"Damnit Ontella," Menz was shaking me hard now. "Heal yourself!"

 

Instinct took over, I snapped into focus and sent all the energy I had left through the device and down to the wound. I stopped the bleeding and neutralized the remaining toxin. I nearly passed out, I had nothing left.

 

Menz hoisted me ontto his shoulder, "I´m taking us back to the shuttle," and he began to walk out of there. A few scattered survivors and robots pulled themselves along behind us.

 

As we approached safety i coughed and whispered to Menz, "I can feel her again."

 

"She´s dead."

 

"Yes, she is."

 

Despite the synthesis being a corrupted ancient it appears to only offer insight into the Infested ancients but thats okay as we lacked knowledge on them anyway.

 

It also raises new questions for me:

 

Whats a lora device and how do they do what they do?

Does the Tenno use something similar?

Was it a Tenno that helped them against the Infested? Its described as a bright flash followed by a loud crash which sounds alot like a Oberon to me.

Edited June 5, 2015 by Ory_Hara

[bejuizb]

So the Infested not only absorb biomass, but assimilate entire consciousness-es, and transfer it to other units even if a body dies. That's bloody terrifying. Inside one of those monstrosities might be a friend of yours, and cutting the body down is merely gonna move the consciousness to another vessel...amongst countless others. 

 

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[Gale47]

Was it a Tenno that helped them against the Infested? Its described as a bright flash followed by a loud crash which sounds alot like a Oberon to me.

It's Excalibur. The Radial Javelin produces the exact sound that was described in the lore entry, plus it blinds, so it fits in perfectly. Also - gold and silver is what Excalibur Prime is all about.

[Krion112]

So Ancients are Infested people who have been designed to use specialized healing equipment?

[Plushy]

I just want to know when we will be seeing a combat Lorist in Corpus missions. 

[Kaokasalis]

So the Infested not only absorb biomass, but assimilate entire consciousness-es, and transfer it to other units even if a body dies. That's bloody terrifying. Inside one of those monstrosities might be a friend of yours, and cutting the body down is merely gonna move the consciousness to another vessel...amongst countless others. 

 

0_0

It might just be that what Ontella felt was the Lorist energy from a Infested Remballa/ancient healing the Infested but it is terrifying if its indeed true.

[Kaokasalis]

It's Excalibur. The Radial Javelin produces the exact sound that was described in the lore entry, plus it blinds, so it fits in perfectly. Also - gold and silver is what Excalibur Prime is all about.

Oberon can also blind with Reckoning and she questioned if it was another healer.

[Senketsu_]

So the Infested not only absorb biomass, but assimilate entire consciousness-es, and transfer it to other units even if a body dies. That's bloody terrifying. Inside one of those monstrosities might be a friend of yours, and cutting the body down is merely gonna move the consciousness to another vessel...amongst countless others. 

 

0_0

just like the flood from Halo.

[Senketsu_]

And it seems it was either on Phobos or Mars.

[Zarozian]

The Lorists.

 

The Tenno.

 

The Orokin.

 

And that Tenno who saved them.

 

I don't think we'll see a Lorist ever. I feel like the Lotus might be one of the last Lorists left/

 

I also don't think Lorists would be our enemies.

[BAR_GUNNER]

I wonder, could that Healing thing they were talking about be the same thing we use to revive other Tenno?

[vaugahn]

So, infested were able to assimilate technology even back then? I thought that was a new development?

[BaneOfOrion]

it was definitely mars, they mention the terraforming or the planet, if barely

[Blakrana]

Aside from the main questions raised being 'Combat Lorist' and 'Relief Lorist', this further supports the argument that the Orokin were really keen on genetically engineering to suit their ends.

 

Personally, I'm just...kind of surprised that my standing theory on Ancients being derived from an Orokin directly was...actually kind of on the mark. It's a interesting thing.

 

All the same, an interesting bit of lore. Infested are Legion after all.

 

So, infested were able to assimilate technology even back then? I thought that was a new development?

 

Considering the nature of the Lorists, if the focus character is any indication, they are bred and made for it, similar to Grineer but with much, much higher station and status associated. Seeing as these are likely then more techno-organic at base components, I guess the Infested have an easier time assimilating that kind of 'technology' as it's already part of the organic structure of such host categories. Could even be it's no more than mutating the host but retaining the mechanical components within the body, perhaps.

 

I think the main difference between this and Mutalist variants are the Mutalist have achieved Infestation of exclusively inorganic material to organic structures. That seems to be how it would be.

 

Best theory I can work with at the moment.

[Firetempest]

I just want to know when we will be seeing a combat Lorist in Corpus missions. 

Remember, Orokin had Moa too. But they were... different. So these are not our Corpus.

Lorist required specialized cloning technology that current corpus do not use. We are more likely to see this in the Grineer. Like the crazy cat lady repairing her animals shes attached to.

Edited June 5, 2015 by Firetempest

[Blakrana]

Remember, Orokin had Moa too. But they were... different.

Lorist required specialized cloning technology that current corpus do not use.

 

Theoretically then, the only way we'd see a Lorist outside the...arguably Healers we now contend with, is if the Grineer and Corpus did a collaboration project.

 

You know, I must admit, the Lorist seems kind of like some sort of techno-mage. What's the law called again? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?

[BaneOfOrion]

and now we await the coming of the dread morec0

[BaneOfOrion]

hey, is not the genetic foundry essentially a cloning chamber? we clone our kubrow, so that it doesn't take years to get a mature one. and we know

frohd bek has been trying to get a doggy of his very own, heck we took the gene foundry segment from his dudes

 

just because the dont use the technology like the grineer do, in an obvious format, doesn't mean they don't have it

Edited June 5, 2015 by BaneOfOrion

[Firetempest]

Theoretically then, the only way we'd see a Lorist outside the...arguably Healers we now contend with, is if the Grineer and Corpus did a collaboration project.

 

You know, I must admit, the Lorist seems kind of like some sort of techno-mage. What's the law called again? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?

 Arthur C. Clarke's three laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

 

Since Tenno are space magic. We are all partly Lorists when focused. Such as Pack Leader or any healing powers we have.

Edited June 5, 2015 by Firetempest

[Nlim]

Hm, so maybe the Twin Queens are a kind of special healer pair?

Could potentially explain the loyalty of the grineer since maybe the Queens are able to stop the genetic degneration for a few choosen commanders by constantly healing them. Of course more evidence still needed but it may be an idea to keep in mind.

Edited June 5, 2015 by Nlim

[Blackout751]

Well. This changes things.

[Akavakaku]

I have a feeling these Lorists were the predecessors to Eximi, only now it's built into equipment or simple implants rather than woven into the flesh. Also, I assumed the Warframe was Mirage when I read it, but Excalibur is also likely.

[Kaokasalis]

I have a feeling these Lorists were the predecessors to Eximi, only now it's built into equipment or simple implants rather than woven into the flesh. Also, I assumed the Warframe was Mirage when I read it, but Excalibur is also likely.

 Lorists being predecessors to Eximi is actually a pretty good conclusion.

[(PSN)batman200087]

It mentioned something about the figure in gold and silver shooting up.

Super Jump anyone??

Edited June 5, 2015 by (PS4)batman200087

[4MostlyHarmless2]

mfw I finish reading the lore 

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RANDOM SPECULATION/ COMMENT TIME

- Could Dax Menz have been one of the Guardians? The way he reacted to Ontella's provocation about the Tenno, plus the fact that he had been "cast aside" (possibly in favor of the Tenno) makes me think he may have been. 

- I'm 100% certain that it was a Tenno in a Warframe that saved them, though which Warframe it was I have no idea. The description of an intense flash, followed by a crash, only fits a few abilities that we know of: Excalibur with a Radial Blind/ Radial Javelin combo, Oberon's Reckoning, or Mirage's Prism.

- If you think about it a bit more, the Tenno that showed up here only targeted and killed the Infested with it's power, when it very easily could have wiped out Ontella, Menz, and the other soldiers and Moas long with it. Does this imply that while the Tenno may have killed the Orokin Emperors, they weren't hunting down all the Orokin and killing them? Or is it that the Infested were simply the bigger threat, and the Tenno decided not to bother with the small remnants? 

- Infested are getting creepier and creepier. I like it. 

 

- I like the sound of Dax Menz having a massive combat blade. It might be the Dakra Prime, but I was imagining a huge two-handed sword, for some reason.