Conclave:Rhino Prime

“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”

Rhino Prime is Vaulted.

The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables and do not drop during missions at this time. Check the current Prime Resurgence rotation to see if Varzia offers relics for this item. Vaulted Void Relics already contained in player inventories are not affected and can still be either opened or traded between players.

Rhino Prime
📝 Update Infobox Data
Abilities
1st Ability	Rhino Charge
2nd Ability	Iron Skin
3rd Ability	Roar
4th Ability	Rhino Stomp
General Information
Sex	Male
Mastery Rank	0
Health	110 (210 at Rank 30)
Shields	165 (265 at Rank 30)
Armor	125
Energy	100 (150 at Rank 30)
Sprint Speed	1
Mobility	0.8
Aura Polarity
Exilus Polarity	None
Polarities
Introduced	Update 12.4 (2014-03-05)
Sell Price	25,000
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

Red lights flashing on stark, white walls. Davis is running ahead of me, dropping his notes. We're running for our lives. The fear gives me a strange perspective - I'm out of my body. I've forgotten how I got here. I don't recognize this place.

Davis and I slam pinned against a cell door and he shouts at me. I give him a dumb look. I can't hear him, the sirens, anything, only the muffled throb of terror in my head. I turn away from Davis down the hall and I see it. The hulking mass, flickering red, glinting like steel and fresh blood. Its skin changes, flowing like mercury when I'm blinded by the sudden muzzle-flashes. They do no good. The beast surges forward and the security men become crimson mist and gore.

I'm a statue, a cornered animal. A gate opens inside me and recognition floods in. I have seen this monster before. I have cut its shell and eviscerated its brothers. I have given it pain and measured its response. I have crafted then rejected countless like it. But I've never seen this beast so close, without the shield, without restraints. I have never seen it... free.

I know I will die so I just watch with curious acceptance. The beast squats down, shovelling a heap of gore into its mouth. It is watching me with vague eyes, a sense of recognition, ancestral memory. It knows who I am and what I've done. It rears up like a bear and roars, shattering the lights and casting us into darkness. I can hear it lumbering toward me, its metal fingers rending the walls, but I know I am dead. I close my eyes and stand ready to pay.

I feel the pull on my arm and realize Davis got the cell open. He tugs me into the cell beyond and I fall on my back. I see Davis standing at the open door, waiting, as the monster tears towards us.

Suddenly I could live through this I shout, "Davis, close the goddamn door!" - But he shakes his head eyes wide as moons. He shouts, "Watch!" over the roaring and rending of metal.

Then silence. Davis is panting, laughing? The beast fills the doorway, inches from him, dripping in blood, but still without violence. It stands there, looking at its hands. Davis whispers, "No one would have believed me."

I crawl up the wall to stand, opposite the door. I've never seen this cell, a cold place with an array of shelves. A morgue? "Where are we, Davis?"

"This is where they keep them. The ones from Zariman." I'm thrown, what was the Zariman? The ship that never returned? "Davis, what's going on?"

Davis turns to me, a smile forming - "What's going on is..." he turns back to the beast now silent and calm.

"...big, fat promotions."

Release Date: March 5th, 2014

Rhino Prime is the Primed variant of Rhino, possessing higher armor and sprint speed, as well as an additional polarity.

On February 9th, 2016, it was announced that Rhino Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on February 16th, 2016. Any preexisting components or fully-built frames will remain as is.

Rhino Prime along with Boar Prime, Dakra Prime, Mag Prime, Ankyros Prime, and Boltor Prime , was again accessible from June 27th, 2017 to August 1st, 2017.

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000				3	Time: 72 hrs
					Rush: 50 Platinum 50
Market Price: N/A			Blueprint Price: N/A
Chassis
15,000	3	1,000	400		Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Neuroptics
15,000	150	2	150	750	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Systems
15,000	3	1	500	500	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25

Notes

• As a prime Warframe, Rhino Prime possesses a special passive ability where contact with an Orokin Void Death Orb will make them release an energy pulse that grants 250 Energy to all nearby allies. This effect can only occur once per Death Orb, and can occur even if the Death Orb has been previously destroyed.
• Rhino Prime is also technically the first Prime that went against previous statements from DE that primes would not be any better stat-wise; Rhino Prime possesses an armor and sprint speed increase.
  • The speed increase has a noticeable in-game effect, especially if the Arcane Vanguard Rhino Helmet is used.

Trivia

• Rhino Prime was the first Prime Warframe to have an ability's effects modified compared to its unprimed counterpart. In this case, Iron Skin appears to cover more of his body, and has a much smoother texture, lacking the rock-like clusters seen on the unprimed Rhino's Iron Skin.
  • Up until Hotfix 18.10.6 (2016-05-06), Rhino Prime's Iron Skin was also gold in color instead of the unprimed Rhino's grey color. It is now affected by Rhino Prime's chosen accent color.
  • In addition, Iron Skin has a visual effect of degrading as it wears off, shown in the patches of the Warframe's base colour that will seep through.
• Rhino Prime was the first prime Warframe with a non-static model, the second being Nova Prime, with what appears to be a continuously-moving golden wind-up key on his back.

Media

• Rhino Prime promotional image, with Boltor Prime and Ankyros Prime
• Rhino Prime in Codex
• Rhino Prime's Iron Skin

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HOW TO RHINO PRIME Update 16.9

See Also

• Prime, the Orokin enhancement to a Warframe or weapon.