Talk:Ballas/@comment-24.22.106.92-20160822075524/@comment-28318481-20160824151917

Wiki states that " The weapons and Warframes the Tenno use are based on the Orokin's designs, but are not actually Orokin tech. Prime versions of items are actual pieces of Orokin technology". Therefore Primes are not prototypes. They were used en masse by Tenno during Orokin era.

Vauban Prime trailer does not directly suggest any particular moment in Warframe timeline. But since Corpus only emerged after the fall of Orokin it would suggest that Ballas in fact is still churning out Prime Warframes long after the Collapse.

The inconsistency is there though. In the Sands of Inaros quest the background story is set during Orokin era. Yet we get Inaros, not Inaros Prime. Silver Grove story suggests that Titania was developed under Margulis' supervision. Therefore Titania is in fact a Prime Warframe because it's Orokin technology. At leas two other Warframes existed without "Prime" moniker during Orokin era - Mirage and Chroma.