A few lore/gameplay based questions

[-Bv-Ahnehmid]

I have a few questions about the lore and game-play mechanics of warframe.

1.) When we 'capture' an Eidolon Teralyst, where do we send it?

2.) Couldn't the Grineer use multiple Fomorians at once?

3.) Why dont the Grineer use Fomorians to destroy planets?

4.) How old are the Tenno?

Those are all my questions, please answer them and feel free to ask your own questions.

[phoenix1992]

Just now, Ahnehmid said:

1.) When we 'capture' an Eidolon Teralyst, where do we send it?

 

To the plot hole!
 

Just now, Ahnehmid said:

2.) Couldn't the Grineer use multiple Fomorians at once?

 

They actually do for the Kuva fortress.
 

1 minute ago, Ahnehmid said:

3.) Why dont the Grineer use Fomorians to destroy planets?

 

Because fomorians are not that strong. 

 

1 minute ago, Ahnehmid said:

4.) How old are the Tenno?

 

In actual age - mid to late teens. They were child/young teens during the initial expedition.

[FlyingDice]

Chronological: who knows? Probably centuries. Subjective/Experiential: who knows? Anywhere from 'as old as they look' to centuries.

We don't really have enough lore to be certain how much time passed between the 10-0 incident and space mom putting them to sleep. Confirmed to be long enough that the Tenno developed a coherent culture. Might well be that their void exposure caused an Oro-esque longevity effect.

[phoenix1992]

1 minute ago, FlyingDice said:

We don't really have enough lore to be certain how much time passed between the 10-0 incident and space mom putting them to sleep. Confirmed to be long enough that the Tenno developed a coherent culture. Might well be that their void exposure caused an Oro-esque longevity effect.

We do know that the Tenno did not fall asleep together on mass.

We don't know when the MC did.

[-Krism-]

8 minutes ago, Ahnehmid said:

1.) When we 'capture' an Eidolon Teralyst, where do we send it?

 

By capture, it means that the Lures are capturing what's inside it, the flawless core and all that.

9 minutes ago, Ahnehmid said:

2.) Couldn't the Grineer use multiple Fomorians at once?

 

It's too expensive and takes to much time to make. But maybe they'll do it at some point.

10 minutes ago, Ahnehmid said:

3.) Why dont the Grineer use Fomorians to destroy planets?

 

Chill dude, they're not meant for that. They're powerful yeah, but no that powerful.

Plus Grineers don't want to destroy planets but conquer them.

11 minutes ago, Ahnehmid said:

4.) How old are the Tenno?

 

In appearance, teens, but we don't actually know for sure for how long they've lived.

[FlyingDice]

2 minutes ago, phoenix1992 said:

We do know that the Tenno did not fall asleep together on mass.

We don't know when the MC did.

True. Which would seem to lend credence to the "older than they look" argument, given that they all look about the same age still (assuming that the pods were less 'sedation' and more 'suspension').

[phoenix1992]

1 minute ago, FlyingDice said:

True. Which would seem to lend credence to the "older than they look" argument, given that they all look about the same age still (assuming that the pods were less 'sedation' and more 'suspension').

Well here you go, another plot hole.

We have met only one Tenno so far, so we simply don't know. The one Tenno we did meet was never in the second dream.

Edit : Two if we consider Stalker as an ex Tenno.

Edited November 11, 2017 by phoenix1992

[BoomyGordo]

13 minutes ago, Ahnehmid said:

I have a few questions about the lore and game-play mechanics of warframe.

1.) When we 'capture' an Eidolon Teralyst, where do we send it?

2.) Couldn't the Grineer use multiple Fomorians at once?

3.) Why dont the Grineer use Fomorians to destroy planets?

4.) How old are the Tenno?

Those are all my questions, please answer them and feel free to ask your own questions.

1 "capture" isn't what we actually do. it gets destroyed but  we "capture" its essence and pieces of it in the form of shards and cores. eidolons are just pieces of the giant sentient that are reanimating, and there are a huge number of them in the plains. we only see one because that's how they were implemented game play wise for now

2 they could, but they would risk an escalating back lash from the corpus and run the risk of allieing the tenno with the corupus against them

3 even fomorians are not powerful enough to do that and even if they were, grineer are trapped in the origin system just like us so why would they destroy one of the very limited habitable places in it?

4 actual age is something like several hundreds of years. biological age is early to late teens due to cryostasis

 

[NinthAria]

In order:

1) The lures don't really seem to capture the teralyst itself, so much as capture the important parts (i.e. cores)--which, presumably, are destroyed otherwise.

2) They tried to in the Eyes of Blight event. With the rediscovery of Archwing technology, almost all of the fomorians were destroyed before they could reach their objective. As it turns out, Balor fomorians are incredibly costly to make; it was such an egregious waste of resources that the Grineer leadership decided Vay Hek wasn't their man with a plan any more, and devoted their resources elsewhere.

3) Putting aside for a moment the fact that fomorians aren't big or powerful enough for something quite that scale: The Grineer may not be the good guys, but at the end of the day they're conquerors, not destroyers. Destroying an entire planet means they don't get that planet's resources. They'd need a pretty damn compelling reason to do something that drastic--if, of course, they actually could.

4) Hard to say. In terms of appearance, they're obviously adolescents; mentally, they seem a little more mature, but maybe not quite full adult yet. Unclear at this time if cryosleep paused their aging process or if the Void-jump incident just halted it permanently. I personally tend to lean towards the latter, because the Tenno were around long enough post-incident to found the five Ways, fight (and win) the Old War, etc., and those sorts of things don't happen quick.

[FlyingDice]

2 hours ago, phoenix1992 said:

Well here you go, another plot hole.

We have met only one Tenno so far, so we simply don't know. The one Tenno we did meet was never in the second dream.

Edit : Two if we consider Stalker as an ex Tenno.

Eeh. Depends on where you think the gameplay/story segregation line lies. Presumably post-SD/TWW you're seeing other Tenno when they use 5. There are also a lot of suggestions in official video footage of cells working together that canonically Tenno work much more closely than the typical gameplay reality of pug drops, which would suggest that they're also close enough to have met face-to-face post-SD/TWW.

[NeithanDiniem]

2 hours ago, Ahnehmid said:

4.) How old are the Tenno?

Those are all my questions, please answer them and feel free to ask your own questions.

Range is between a millennium and a few hundred years. The lore is a bit troublesome when you compare old with new lore that seems to contradict.