Talk:Story and History/@comment-97.95.124.61-20150803080502/@comment-26512402-20150803134743

My headcanon at the moment is this: Tenno are either energy beings, or humans like the Zariman children but kept in a sort of highly-advanced life support that allows remote communication while sustaining their bodies indefinitely (or, a variation on this: the children were actually supposed to be in total stasis, but their experiences allowed them to mind-control things). If the Tenno are, in fact, mutated humans telepathically controlling the otherwise-animalistic Warframes, then their normal state of being could be described metaphorically as a dream: if they die, they just 'wake up' in a new body (Warframe) and carry on. The reason Warframes do not talk is not because they don't have mouths or anything (see the Rhino Prime entry), but rather because they don't have vocal cords). They can still make noises (see Valkyr), but choose not to do so. But I digress. The 'second dream', if the 'first dream' is, in fact, their normal state, would then logically seem to imply that the Orokin later figured out how to actually put them into suspended animation completely, as opposed to just physically.