Talk:The Sacrifice/@comment-33569085-20171105035453

I just went red-pill on Umbra and I've tried to find all sources of information short of traveling to China itself.

I have a theory. Let me share this theory with you.

*Story Spoilers will follow, please do not read if you do NOT want to have a MAJOR plot point revealed.*

Obviously, both in the script and the title of the newest trailer "The Sacrifice," we're giving something up. We're asked if we can "make the trade?" and furthermore, we're given a beeping heart monitor to give us the idea that whatever the trade is, it's lethal. But what if we're not trading ourselves? The bizarre theory that DE would discard the entire focus/operator system, the entire point of Plains of Eidolon, the largest update the game has ever had, and head in a completely sepearate direction forcing you to pick between Operator and Umbra is ridiculous. No, I think we're all looking at this the wrong way.

Think back to the War Within. We had that morality measure, that compass that would change between Sun, Moon, and Balance and while it was basically useless, (at the time) it could have been a nod to the future.

We already see that an Umbra warframe is NOT physically the same as a Prime, nor a base frame, and neither are it's weapons. I posit One of two things:

1. Umbra warframes are their own beings, given life from the infestation within themselves, gaining sentience from some unknown being, power, or resource.

2. Umbra warframes are from a second faction of Tenno, those would did not or would not join the Lotus or were not held in sleep.

If they are their own beings, the sacrifice would be in regards to them losing their own lives, their own sentience. Are you willing to kill a being simply to gain their power? To possess the shell they inhabit, would you evict them? That seems like a moral quandry if I've ever seen one. And it's right down DE's alley as well.

The same could be said for it being a second faction. Are you willing to kill another Operator, to murder another Tenno, one who was also trapped with you, who survived with you, simply to gain their power?



Either way, I just wanted to share and discuss what I've been thinking about. And also say most theories I've read are either outlandish or outright ridiculous. Mine could be too!

Thanks.