Talk:Tenno/@comment-80.99.205.172-20151205131750/@comment-85.23.198.132-20151213101039

'Course, "in cryo stasis for centuries" rather begs the question of how exactly were they then able to operate the Warframes before being decanted during the Reveal in the Moon - seeing as how you're not going to have much brain activity in such a state.

I'd put my money on some kind of ludicrously advanced life-support system and the Operator having been brought out of hibernation when the starter 'Frame was reactivated in "Vor's Prize". Plus it rather seems like the Operators don't age anyway; the conversation s/he has with the Lotus in the finale of Second Dream makes it clear s/he was one of the original Zariman kids (ALL Operators may well belong to this group); yet still looks like s/he's in early teens at most despite the years it took before the rescue teams found the stricken ship followed by God knows how long a tour of duty as Warframe Operator under the Orokin. Various ceremonial paraphenelia and the Five Great Schools strongly suggest the latter was a fairly lenghty period, since that kind of ritual takes a while to develop and the Schools and their techniques presumably weren't exactly figured out overnight.

The considerable proliferation of Warframe models, some of them quite specialised, would also rather suggest they're not exactly first-gen tech. To give a real-world analog, compare the number and variety of tank designs in active service at the end of WW1 to the same at the start of WW2... (Aircraft were highly diverse from the start, as technological limitations obliged tailoring designs for particular purposes - and to a large degree still do.)