Talk:Tenno/@comment-122.53.94.190-20151205133431/@comment-85.23.198.132-20151213095228

Prime gear seems to be the fancy-pants versions that presumably were mostly kept "at home" due to being too finicky and complex for frontline service. Palace guard stuff basically, which would readily explain why the necessary legacy parts can be found in the surviving Orokin sites. The non-prime models would presumably be the simplified production standard that could be more readily mass-produced and kept running under the unreliable logistics of actual combat theaters - the Orbiter's fabricator can readily enough construct them out of random crap salvaged from the field.

By way of comparision note how actual wartime designs IRL nigh invariably tend to aim for simplification of design and robustness, to push down manufacturing costs and times (ergo increasing factual availability) and improve battlefield reliability.

Should be a safe bet the somatic link has a safety cutoff in the case of the destruction of the proxy Warframe, that's like Remote Weapon Design 101. If the loss of the proxy equaled the loss of the Operator the Orokin would have run out of Majick Void Kids pretty damn fast. And also been really stupid.