Talk:Ballas/@comment-24.22.106.92-20160822075524/@comment-2.237.32.17-20160825003654

Point is, back in the Orokin Era there was no reason for prime warframes to have the suffix "Prime", since they were actually the only type of warframe available. Say, Excalibur Prime was only named Excalibur, same for Saryn, Nekros and Vauban. Ballas in the trailers refer to them as their simple name without Prime, because when he created them, the non-prime counterpart didn't exist.

I'm starting to think that Normals and Primes are actually the same warframes, but using different materials and different qualities of blueprints. So that if you want to build Nekros with "scrap materials" you can only make the standard one, while if you use precious resources, like orokin cells and argon, you are able to build the original Prime version. So, basically, the Prime version is Orokin technology since it's built with Orokin materials and blueprints, while the normal one used a "copied" kind of blueprint and materials that can be found in much larger quantities.