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Gauss
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Description
Take charge with the Saint of Altra. Gauss is fast, deals high damage, and has strong survivability. Movement charges his powerful battery, so never stop moving.
Passive
Moving generates an electrical current that fills Gauss' battery. Shields recharge up to 120% faster while the Recharge Delay is up to 80% shorter, based on the battery level.
Abilities
1st Ability	Mach Rush
2nd Ability	Kinetic Plating
3rd Ability	Thermal Sunder
4th Ability	Redline
General Information
Sex	Male
Mastery Rank	0
Max Rank	30
Health	270 (370 at Rank 30)
Shields	455 (555 at Rank 30)
Armor	185
Energy	175 (225 at Rank 30)
Starting Energy	100
Sprint Speed	1.4
Aura Polarity
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Introduced	Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)
Themes	Kinetic Energy, Runner
Progenitor Element	Impact
Subsumed Ability	Thermal Sunder
Tactical Ability	Thermal Sunder
Sell Price	10,000
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

Never stop moving. Gauss' battery is charged by movement, powering his devastating kinetic abilities. They can't kill what they can't hit.

Charging his abilities with every step, he's streamlined for speed. This is Gauss, the runner, the rapid.

If the battle seems out of control, Tenno, you're not going fast enough.

—Lotus

Gauss. Front edge: smooth heat-resistant composites. Trailing edges: streamlined, foiled, this particular one vaguely warped by extreme heat stress.

The Saint of Altra. If the mind wanders, what do you see?

I see a vivid Lord-like Festival, the tremor mines bursting in a blinding wave, rising toward Altra. And Gauss - a smear of light, just ahead of the thermal avalanche - fast as fire. No... faster.

—Drusus

Release Date: August 29th, 2019

Engines ready for ignition. Coolant circulation systems online. Revved into kinetic overdrive, the speedster Gauss leaves his competition amidst the dust. Accelerate and race across vast landscapes or seas. Recharge power from hostile strikes and reduce the force of their impact. Flash-freeze enemies dead in their tracks, then spontaneously combust his foes, as he paves the path to a swift victory. Gauss kickstarted in Update 25.7 (2019-08-29): Saint of Altra.

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	1	1	1	3	Time: 72 hrs
					Rush: 50 Platinum 50
Market Price: 325 Platinum 325			Blueprint Price: 30,000
Chassis
15,000	3	3	6	55	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Neuroptics
15,000	1	1,600	6,200	2,950	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Systems
15,000	3	3	70	85	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25

Acquisition

Gauss components drop from Tier C Disruption on Kelpie, Sedna. Each component has a 7.84% drop chance.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Chassis Blueprint	Sedna Disruption / C	7.84%	~ 12 C Rotations	84 ± 28 C Rotations
Systems Blueprint	Sedna Disruption / C	7.84%	~ 12 C Rotations	84 ± 28 C Rotations
Neuroptics Blueprint	Sedna Disruption / C	7.84%	~ 12 C Rotations	84 ± 28 C Rotations

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Lore

Ah, Gauss. Where to begin, where to begin... Well, the Ceres excavation of course. The site of the ancient tower of Altra.

Blastcrete emplacements, air sentries... its fields saturated with tremor mines. A great fortress for the Great Lords of Ceres... until they were pitched from the roof, immortal bodies erupting on the dread mines below.

An insurgency, from within. The Dax sent to reclaim Altra fared no better. Those that ran the gauntlet of bore-guns were soon cindered in the field beyond... That's when they called in our fleet-footed friend here.

—Drusus

Altra was an ancient tower fortress on Ceres owned by the Orokin. An insurgency occurred there and the Orokin demanded its recapture. However, the tower's defenses proved to be impenetrable to the Dax batallion.

Gauss was then called in to quell the insurgency. With his immense speed, he blitzed through the minefield and into tower and was able to reclaim it. His victory earned him the title: The Saint of Altra.

Drusus, the Leverian's host, later found Gauss and his equipment in an excavation of the area.

Notes

• Gauss' signature weapons, the  Acceltra and the  Akarius, both gain increased reload speed while sprinting when wielded by him.
• Gauss possesses the fastest sprint speed of all Warframes in the game with a value of 1.4. This replaces  Loki/ Loki Prime who has a sprint speed of 1.25.
  • With a maxed  Rush,  Amalgam Serration,  Armored Agility,  Speed Drift,  Sprint Boost, and  Coaction Drift his sprint speed can be boosted up to 2.8257, and with a full squad set up bringing it up to 3.6589.
• Due to blueprints' requirements, players must be both at the Ostron Rank of Surah and the Solaris United Rank of Cove, at the minimum, in order to acquire rare gem blueprints from the factions.
  • However, while Operation: Plague Star is active, players can directly purchase Heart Nyth and Radian Sentirum from Operational Supply and require only the Ostron Rank of Trusted for the Star Crimzian blueprint.
  • Alternatively, the crafted gems can be acquired by trading with other players, completely bypassing the rank requirement.
• Gauss' Electrokinetic Battery passive is the only way to decrease shield recharge delay in PVE gameplay.

Trivia

• Gauss is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, the German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and sciences. Most notably in Electromagnetism, Differential Geometry, Algebra, and Statistics.
• The term Redline is an automotive term that refers to the maximum revolutions-per-minute (RPM) that an engine is designed to withstand without damaging its own components. It can also be used as a verb to refer to running an engine at or beyond its maximum safe RPM (e.g. "to redline").
• The name of the Gauss Mag Helmet, his alternate helmet, is a deliberate reversal of one of  Mag's alternate helmets, the Mag Gauss Helmet.
• Gauss is the 41st Warframe to be released (excluding Primed and Umbra variants).
• Unlike several other Warframes that require exclusive resources from only one of the Landscapes, Gauss' Chassis and Systems require resources from Plains of Eidolon and Orb Vallis, respectively.
• Gauss is the first Warframe whose component blueprints are acquired from Disruption.
• Gauss was planned to be released alongside  Grendel, who is said to be his best friend, but DE made the decision to release Grendel later. As a nod to this, Grendel can be seen in Gauss' profile video, riding a K-Drive while Gauss sprints beside him.
  • Part of Gauss is also displayed in Grendel's Leverian display.
• Gauss is the first Warframe to be featured in the Leverian.
  • The Leverian displays Gauss' airfoil system as a separate part.
• Gauss is the fourth Warframe to use another type of ability resource besides energy, after  Nidus,  Baruuk, and  Hildryn. In Gauss's case, he uses his Electrokinetic Battery.
  • Unlike other Warframes, all of Gauss' abilities still require energy to activate.
• In Gauss' profile video, Lotus pronounces his name as "goss" (to rhyme with "moss"), as opposed to the usual pronunciation of "gouse" (to rhyme with "house"). Unlike  Titania this pronunciation choice is inconsistent as Drusus uses the latter option.