Talk:Tenno/@comment-24635935-20151222231538/@comment-104.33.116.162-20160126014812

My thought on the whole thing goes back to the times when we would defend a cryopod (defense mission), from overwhelming enemies, until extraction. I'm not sure if it was changed recently, but if you look into the pod you might see a person inside. I think these people are artificially created bodies (possibly using the technocyte virus since Phorid is always saying "come back to us" or something, which implied that the surrogate body has some technocyte tissue in it) that don't actually have souls or a will of its own, they're just empty shells as Hunhow said during the Second Dream quest. Since they're empty bodies, the Tenno can project their will into the bodies and control them using the somatic link.

Now, as to how the body was able to rip the War sword in half, my theory is whenever the Tenno projects his/her will into the surrogate body, a small piece of their consciousness remains in the surrogate body, something like a foot print. That tiny mental energy was enough for the Tenno to quickly link into the frame and perform a last-minute act to save his/her life, without having to use the pod's devices (at the Reservoir) as a means to focus. The Tenno honed into that small consciousness it left behind and used that as a focal point to establish a brief connection to the surrogate body.

Just my thoughts.