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Saturn

For its Railjack counterpart, see Saturn Proxima.

The historically well-travelled merchant shipping lanes of Saturn are now dominated by Grineer blockades. Heavy military influence populates this area where Grineer Commanders believe they have a strategic foothold on travel throughout the System. Under the safeguard of patrolling Galleons, the Grineer ceaselessly train their expanding forces, making the region nigh impossible to overtake.

—Saturn Fragment

Saturn is a planet where the Grineer are the controlling faction.

Saturn becomes accessible by defeating the Specter in the Saturn Junction on Jupiter after completing the required tasks.

The Assassination Target for Saturn is General Sargas Ruk, who is located in the mission node Tethys. General Sargas Ruk drops the component blueprints for the parts of the Ember Warframe. He also has a higher than average chance to drop Orokin Cells.

The space around Saturn is a playable area in the Empyrean gamemode, featuring its own Grineer fighters. It is called Saturn Proxima.

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Lore[]

Nightwave Series 1 – The Wolf of Saturn Six[]

Saturn housed a Grineer Max-Pen called Saturn Six, previously undisclosed and named for being "some six leagues deep in the gas". The Wolf served as a model prisoner until he suddenly broke out alongside a group of fugitives, forming a "wolf pack". Instead of fleeing, the Wolf hacked into the Corpus communications network on Jupiter and sent them a demand to "DELIVER GHARN", the Warden of Saturn Six, who had been selling off Grineer inmates for Corpus experiments. Presumably, it was finding out about this trafficking of his comrades that turned the Wolf from a model prisoner into a renegade escapee.

Alad V replied "GHARN IS YOURS", drawing the Wolf out only to imprison him again as an experiment for his Amalgam project, with him and his pack becoming infused with Sentient hybridization, and then sent him to hunt down the Tenno. However, the Wolf broke free from Alad's control and shortly thereafter disappeared.

Nightwave Series 3 - The Glassmaker[]

Gral was sent to a reconditioning facility at Saturn Five after claiming crossfire confusion upon suspiciously returning as the sole survivor of his unit. This implies the existence of Grineer Facilities Saturn One through Saturn Four.

Enemies[]

Invasion Missions: The Corpus will appear as a "Sideable or Opposing" faction while the Infested will always appear as an "Opposing" faction during Invasion missions.

Spy Missions: Special enemy variants have a chance of spawning during Spy missions.

Survival Missions: The following lists below do not apply to Survival missions.

Grineer	Infested
Ballistas Butchers Commanders Drahk Drahk Masters Elite Lancers Eviscerators Flameblades Heavy Gunners Lancers Manics Napalms Nox Powerfists Rollers Scorchs Scorpions Seekers Shield Lancers Troopers	Ancient Healers Chargers Leapers Volatile Runners

Missions[]

Name	Type	Level	Credit Reward	Additional Credit Reward	Tile Set	Mastery EXP	Internal Name	Hidden Node
Kronia Relay	Relay	0 - 0	0	0	Relay	0	`SaturnHUB`	❌
Cephalon Capture	Conclave	0 - 0	0	0	Tile Sets#Conclave Maps	0	`PvpNode0`	✔️
Team Annihilation	Conclave	0 - 0	0	0	Tile Sets#Conclave Maps	0	`PvpNode9`	✔️
Lunaro Arena	Conclave	0 - 0	0	0	Tile Sets#Conclave Maps	0		✔️
Annihilation	Conclave	0 - 0	0	0	Tile Sets#Conclave Maps	0	`PvpNode10`	✔️
Uranus Junction	Junction	1 - 3	0	0	Solar Rail	1000	`SaturnToUranusJunction`	❌
Dione	Spy	21 - 23	3,000	0	Grineer Asteroid	55	`SolNode67`	❌
Pandora	Pursuit	21 - 23	3,000	0	Free Space	55	`SolNode906`	❌
Cassini	Capture	21 - 23	3,000	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode70`	❌
Rhea	Interception	21 - 26	3,000	0	Grineer Asteroid	55	`SolNode18`	❌
Titan	Survival	21 - 26	3,000	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode96`	❌
Helene	Defense	21 - 26	3,000	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode42`	❌
Anthe	Rescue	22 - 24	3,100	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode31`	❌
Numa	Rescue	22 - 24	3,100	0	Grineer Asteroid	55	`SolNode50`	❌
Telesto	Exterminate	22 - 24	3,100	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode20`	❌
Enceladus	Sabotage	23 - 25	3,200	0	Grineer Asteroid	49	`SolNode19`	❌
Keeler	Mobile Defense	23 - 25	3,200	0	Grineer Asteroid	55	`SolNode93`	❌
Tethys	Assassination	24 - 26	3,300	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode32`	❌
Calypso	Sabotage	24 - 26	3,300	0	Grineer Galleon	55	`SolNode82`	❌
Piscinas	Survival (Dark Sector)	26 - 36	3,500	14,000	Grineer Asteroid	0	`ClanNode13`	❌
Caracol	Defection (Dark Sector)	26 - 36	3,500	14,000	Grineer Galleon	0	`ClanNode12`	❌

Tips[]

Titan and Piscinas are excellent locations to farm for Plastids and Orokin Cells, as they are survival missions and large amounts of enemies spawn there.
- Solo is not recommended due to the lower spawn rates. Try doing them public or with a friend for higher spawn rates, which means more loot, but also increased difficulty.
Saturn is the earliest planet where Drahk Masters and Drahk can be encountered commonly, this makes Saturn a good alternative to Earth to farm Kubrow mods. Also, there is no limit to how many Drahks Drahk Masters can spawn, but there is a limit to how many can be spawned in per Drahk Master. Unlike Kubrow Dens, that are limited in the amount of Kubrows that can spawn from it before the den is destroyed.
Another way to farm for Orokin Cells is General Sargas Ruk, because he has an increased chance to drop them. However, he may be stubborn to open up his weak spots and sometimes drops Detonite Ampules instead of Orokin Cells.

Trivia[]

Saturn is named after the Roman god of Agriculture and Time.
The mission nodes are named after Saturn's moons, with a few exceptions:
- Cassini is named after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
- Numa is named after Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome who spread worship of the god Saturn.
- Keeler is named after the Keeler Gap, a gap in Saturn's A Ring that is kept clear by the moon Daphnis.
  - The node Keeler is also located at the place where The Keeler Gap is being "plowed" in real life.
The Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08) update swapped the enemy levels of Saturn and Ceres, with Saturn becoming the new "second hardest" in terms of enemy levels. Mimas was also removed from the planet as a playable node, Cassini switched over from Survival to Capture, and Titan was changed from Spy, to the only non-Dark Sector survival mission on the planet.
Saturn, Venus, Europa, and Pluto are the only planets that have Relays that are accessible on two different platforms.
The Max-Pen Saturn Six is currently not a visitable location, however Nightwave Series 1 awarded a Captura scene of its entrance.
- When Empyrean was first released, on Saturn Proxima it was possible to find a structure resembling the prison, but could not be accessed in any way. It was removed in later patches due to its clear unfinished status, but it might return at some point.