Talk:Operator/@comment-184.161.124.139-20151205191058/@comment-17703786-20151209030539

^ Warframes should be made out of the same stuff that we've known them to be made of for a long time now: Technocyte flesh mixed in with cybernetic components.

On the issue of retcons and stuff, most of the older lore is vaguely worded to the point where any future lore would fit the reveal without any need for change. That said, as far back as Arid Fear the fact that Warframes weren't as they seemed was already put forward: Vor explicitly mentions in the victory entry that even when they've dissected a Warframe, they couldn't discover just where in a Warframe their power could come from. The power coming not from the Warframe itself but from the Operator makes sense in this regard, as is Vor's comment about Tenno being energy - he was right in the nature of the Warframes as simply channeling the Tenno's energy, he just didn't know that said energy came from somewhere else tangible.

As to why remotely-operated Warframes would be dangerous enough to make the Lotus worry about them, I imagine that Transference would be something akin to The Matrix: for the duration that the Operator controls the Warframe, they are the Warframe, and so anything bad that happens to the Warframe can adversely affect the Tenno in turn, leading to trauma or even death.

I read someone quote a passage that he felt described Transference and the Second Dream perfect, and I actually agree with him:

"Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, for all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awoke, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."