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Lua

“You're not supposed to be in here! You're going to ruin the surprise!”

The following article/section contains spoilers. Please finish The Second Dream before proceeding.

Gold rings circle and encapsulate the desolate moonscape – lavish architecture signifying the Orokin mastery over all things natural and technological during their reign. The opalescent halls stitching together what the enemy destroyed have been vacated since that era came to an end.

—Lua Fragment

Lua is the Earth's moon, accessible as a location in the Star Chart. Once the seat of the Orokin Empire's power during their reign, it is now shattered and broken, scarred by the Old War. Formerly hidden away by the Lotus to protect the Tenno's secret, recent events have led to the reemergence of this lost celestial body, and now its fragmented remains are fought over by the Grineer and the Corpus, with Sentient fighters lurking about.

Lua can only be unlocked after a player completes The Second Dream. Both Grineer and Corpus contest possession of the moon since its reappearance, leading to Lua being the only other planet, besides Mars, that has (permanent) Crossfire missions. Sentients also appear in any of the missions, scanning for the player's presence and deploying fighters once detected.

The Orokin Moon Tileset serves as the primary environment for Lua.

Enemies

Corpus	Grineer	Sentient
Corpus Techs Crewmen Elite Crewmen Prod Crewmen Sniper Crewmen Anti MOAs MOAs Shockwave MOAs Mine Ospreys Oxium Ospreys Scavenger Drones Shield Ospreys	Butchers Ballistas Eviscerators Lancers Shield Lancers Troopers Commanders Heavy Gunners Rollers	Conculysts Battalysts

Unique Enemies

Sentient units can be found and fought on this moon. Combat against them revolves around their ability to adapt themselves to the damage dealt by the player's weapons and abilities, requiring Tenno to have multiple types of damage (both physical and elemental) in their loadouts, or use Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage to strip Sentients of their damage resistances.
Corrupted Wardens can be found in "Lua Rescue" missions.
Orokin Spectators can be found in "Lua Spy" missions.

Missions

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Notes

During Mobile Defense missions, the presence of Sentient fighters – Conculysts and Battalysts – will disrupt the Lotus' terminal hacking progress. Any Sentients must be killed before the terminal hacking can resume.
Neurodes appear to drop more commonly than on Earth, Eris and the Orokin Derelict. Sentient fighters in particular have a very high chance of dropping Neurodes when killed.
Completing Spy Missions on Lua will have a chance to drop one of the following Acolyte mods from Operation: Shadow Debt: Blood Rush, Hydraulic Crosshairs, Shrapnel Shot, Focused Defense, or Catalyzer Link.
If someone hasn't completed The Second Dream and tries to access any mission on Lua (via taxi or otherwise), they will be prompted to complete it before continuing and will be kicked from the party. Other party members who qualify will still be able to run the mission.
Octavia Systems blueprint can be awarded from Lua Crossfire Exterminate Caches.
Lua features the Orokin Moon tileset on which the so-called Halls of Ascension can be found. Those reward the Drift Mods.
Besides the Halls of Ascension, there are other puzzle rooms like the Lua Music Puzzle and the Arboriform room where the player encountered the Shadow Stalker during The Second Dream. The Lua Music Puzzle rewards the Octavia Chassis Blueprint and occasionally a Forma.

Trivia

Lua is Portuguese and Galician for "Moon" and resembles the Latin name Luna, occasionally also used in English.
Missions on Lua are named after various craters on the Moon: Copernicus, Grimaldi, Pavlov, Plato, Stöfler, Tycho, Von Zeipel.
The positioning of the missions on Lua form a crescent shape.
Before Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08), Lua was the name of a node on Earth, and the Orokin Moon missions introduced in Update 18.0 (2015-12-03) were considered Earth nodes. Specters of the Rail update subsequently moved the Orokin Moon missions to its own location, with the Lua node being renamed Cervantes as its previous name was then used for the new star chart location.
The name Lua for the Earth's Moon was foreshadowed by dialogue in The Second Dream, named as the place where the "rejects were consigned", likely referring to the Tenno.
Lua ties with the Orokin Derelict for the least amount of nodes of all the planets in the Origin System. While Lua's post-Orokin dimensions are unclear, the Moon is larger than Phobos, Ceres, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and Eris.
With the addition of a new Disruption node, Apollo, the node path is formed into a crescent moon shape.

Patch History

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)

Added Apollo, a new Disruption node.

Hotfix 25.5.1 (2019-08-02)

Fixed another unreachable loot spot in the Lua tileset.

Hotfix 25.4.3 (2019-07-26)

Fixed clipping doors in the Lua Sabotage tileset.

Hotfix 25.4.1 (2019-07-24)

Fixed a Crate clipping into the wall on the Lua Spy tileset.

Hotfix 25.3.2 (2019-07-12)

Increased brightness of the grey ABC markers in Lua Spy missions.
Fixed Sentient Troopers not spawning in Lua Exterminate missions.
Fixed missing portal FX for Clients in the Lua Rescue tileset.

Update 24.7 (2019-04-10)

Widened the wall gap for the purpose of Warframe size sliding in the Lua tileset as requested here.

Update 20.4 (2017-05-04)

Removed Lua Spy missions from Sortie rotation due to extensive Client loading times on min spec machines. Please note that we are working to fix this and add Lua Spy missions back into the Sortie rotation.

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