Nova/Main

Release Date: July 13th, 2013

Nova is an antimatter themed Warframe released in Update 9. She is somewhat fragile with low shield capacity, fair health and lacks in defensive abilities. In return, she features extremely powerful offensive abilities capable of demolishing entire waves of enemies.

Component blueprints drop from Raptor (Naamah, Europa)

Trivia

 * Both the name and the abilities of this Warframe were chosen by submissions of Design Council being filtered by Digital Extremes then voting by the Design Council community.
 * Nova is one of the fastest Warframes with a base sprint speed third only to Loki and Mirage.
 * The term nova refers to the violent outbursts of energy that occur in cataclysmic variable stars. These variables are actually binary stars that consist of a tidally-distorted companion that accretes stellar material onto the surface of a white dwarf. In this accretion disk, the infalling matter is highly compressed on the white dwarf's surface due to its immense gravity. This process increases the pressure and temperature of the collected matter tremendously: enough to burn hydrogen. As this matter contains mostly hydrogen, runaway fusion reactions occur on the white dwarf's surface, producing an extremely bright thermonuclear outburst.
 * According to Nova's profile, her Warframe was a result of Tenno High Council research, implying that she could possibly be a recently developed Warframe. This makes her and, possibly, Valkyr the only Warframes that are made in the current time period, after the Old Orokin War.
 * Nova is the last Warframe with a helmet that grants statistical changes (The Flux Nova Helmet), as all helmets released from Nekros onward have since been entirely cosmetic.
 * Currently one of two frames that has three alternate helmets. The other being Loki.

Bugs

 * Dying, while wearing a different helmet and using a different color scheme, causes Nova's head to return to default coloring.
 * Casting Molecular Prime then having a Trinity cast Blessing before you execute a target will cause the explosion to be the color of the Trinity's energy, rather than your own.