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They were called Tenno. Warriors of blade and gun: masters of the Warframe armor. Those that survived the old war were left drifting among the ruins. Now they are needed once more.

The Grineer, with their vast armies, are spreading throughout the solar system. A call echoes across the stars summoning the Tenno to an ancient place. They summon you.

Allow the Lotus to guide you. She has rescued you from your cryostasis chamber and given you a chance to survive. The Grineer will find you; you must be prepared. The Lotus will teach you the ways of the Warframes and the secrets to unlocking their powers.

Come Tenno, you must join the war.

—Official website

While we were able to find solid and legitimate supporting evidence for essentially the whole story as it is written, this interpretation comes from a variety of sources, and each of those pieces of information was likely written by a number of different people. This article strives to be more than a simple compendium of disparate lore tidbits. We took in all of the various bits of lore information and documented them in a chronological and readable way to produce the most complete story possible.

This page will be regularly updated as the developers, Digital Extremes, release more information.

History

Orokin Era

106 by sbigham-dbqynav — An Orokin tower

Long before current events, the Origin System was controlled by an imperial civilization called the Orokin Empire, whose capital was on Earth's moon, now known as Lua. The aristocratic ruling class of this civilization, known as Orokin, was the dominant humanoid faction for an extended period — perhaps centuries or millennia.

They were known for their advancements in biotechnology, leaders in gene manipulation to the degree that they created a caste of cloned workers, the Grineer, that were genetically programmed to obey their Orokin masters.^[1] It was also known that they were masters of merging organic material with the inorganic as seen with the living Orokin Towers or the Infestation, an engineered infectious techno-organic parasite that subverts, mutates, and assimilates any biological or synthetic matter into a new infested lifeform.^[2]

The Orokin's advanced technology and scientific research led to the discovery of the Void, a parallel dimension that allowed further development of already impressive Orokin technology.^[3] Their civilization followed suit — Orokin culture, particularly among the ruling class, evolved into a society obsessed with youth, aesthetics, and elegance.^[4]^[5]^[6]

However, the benefits of the Orokin's advancements were not shared equally among all members of their society. The rigid hierarchy allowed a few lucky individuals to live fairly comfortably as servants, scholars, and enforcers for the Orokin elite. Though these servants were still subjected to the whims of their often cruel masters, lower classes and other humanoid groups were exploited en masse for labor and used as disposable soldiers and experiment subjects.^[7] Families of farmers worked for their Orokin masters for generations, the Orokin exploiting their harsh manual labor to build their empire, giving little compensation of their honest work in return.^[8] These farmers would eventually congregate under the teachings of Parvos Granum, forming the Corpus and adopting its doctrine: the belief that anyone has the right to achieve fortune regardless of their social status.^[9]

For a time, the Orokin ruled the Origin System and continued to expand. They spent a great deal of time building large outposts throughout the Origin System^[10], developing more advanced machinery, and performing numerous genetic experiments of creatures found on Earth.^[11]^[12]

At some point, their rampant expansion of the Origin System came to a halt. The empire began to look to populate other star systems, particularly Tau, presumably to quell their problems of overpopulation, overconsumption of resources, and pollution of the natural world^[13].

The Zariman Ten Zero Incident

Vitruvian Zariman — Zariman schematic as seen in the Vitruvian

AF0F9A9D-2886-44A0-A210-C243D55356B8 — Zariman as seen in Rell webcomic

The Orokin continued experimenting with the Void. At some point, an experiment was conducted where a military ship containing a large group of people and their families was directed into the Void in an attempt to travel to and populate the Tau System.^[14] The ship was lost and it was many days before the ship resurfaced.^[15]

Due to Void exposure, the adults on the ship became crazed, hunting down the children.^[16] The children, however, had survived exposure to the Void, retaining their sanity, but they had changed during the process. The children developed uncontrollable Void related powers that were capable of mutilating or killing anyone who came into contact with them. In self-defense, the children killed the unhinged adults, even their own parents, being traumatized for what they did.^[17]^[18]

After the rediscovery of the ship, the Zariman children were deemed dangerous by the Orokin. They were hidden away^[19] and forgotten out of shame and fear, being known as "Void demons". The Zariman children became known later as the Tenno, called such for the Zariman ship's designation of Ten-Zero (Ten-0).^[20]

Margulis, the Zariman Children, and Ballas

Margulis was an Archimedian, a human of great intellect, and a prominent geneticist. Margulis discovered the Tenno and adopted them as her own, empathizing with their suffering. She sought out a means for the Tenno to control their powers and interact with the world normally.^[21] Margulis received some opposition for her work and was advised by her secret lover, the Orokin Executor Ballas, to cease her research and forget the Tenno. She refused and continued her research. Eventually, Margulis imposed "gates" on the Tenno's powers which helped bring their uncontrollable Void powers under some control, but this was not before an incident where she was maimed by the same Void powers which left her blind.^[22]

Margulis' research eventually led her to work with an Archimedian specializing in Infestation manipulation named Silvana.^[23] Together they intended to develop a substitute body for the Tenno and allow them to move freely and interact with the world. However, while the research was a partial success at the time, Margulis came at odds with the Orokin, refusing to develop war machines that exploited the children's powers. It was demanded that she recant before The Seven, members of the judicial branch of the empire. Despite Ballas' pleas that she recant, Margulis continued to refuse and asked Ballas to save her. Ballas either would not or could not save Margulis and as a result, she was executed using the Jade Light.^[24] Ballas was filled with grief and realized that he wanted Margulis back. Heartbroken at Margulis' execution, Ballas began planning to overthrow the Orokin.^[25]

The Birth of the Sentients

The Orokin came to realize that they were bringing harm to the Origin System and sought a solution. It was proposed by Archimedian Perintol that the Orokin could populate another star system called Tau. However, Tau would need to be terraformed for habitation as would a means of traveling there need to be developed. The Orokin created a race of synthetic beings, which later became known as the Sentients, to spearhead an expansion of Orokin influence beyond the Origin System into the Tau System. By terraforming the Tau System using the Sentients, the Orokin sought to expand and prevent their empire's destruction.^[26]

These original creations could adapt to any kind of damage and reproduced by fission while developing resistance to whatever had harmed them. They could also use any materials surrounding them to repair themselves. The Sentients were perfect to enter the hostile terrain of Tau and begin the terraforming process, but there was a risk that these new lifeforms could pose a serious threat to the Orokin, with their adaptability and reproductive capability making them nigh unbeatable. The Archimedian who proposed the technology said that there was a "flaw" in their design; the Void was poisonous to them and so they would not be a danger to the Orokin should something go wrong.

The Sentients in Tau evolved and grew, eventually gaining sentience.^[27] Realizing that their Orokin creators would only bring ruin to Tau eventually as well, they rebelled.^[28] Exposure to the Void, which they needed to travel through to return to the Origin System, did not kill the Sentients but merely rendered them sterile, unable to reproduce.^[29]^[30] The Sentients under their leader Hunhow would start an invasion on the Origin System, thus what would become known as The Old War began.

The Old War

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Excalibur Prime fighting a Sentient fighter on Lua

From this point, The Old War erupted between the Orokin and the Sentients. With their ability to subvert high levels of technology, the Sentient quickly overwhelmed the Orokin.^[31] There were attempts to militarize their Grineer slaves^[32] which also failed as a countermeasure. The Orokin quickly discovered that their method of fighting proved ineffective against the faction.^[33]

The Corpus faction grew to the point where they were in the business of war-profiteering, developing and selling technology for the war effort. As such, the Orokin were aware of the Corpus existence, calling them "Industrialists" and a "merchant cult", and monitored their movements, due to their potential influence over the Orokin System.^[34]^[35]

Development of Warframes

Faced with losing the war and with their technology useless, the Orokin needed to create something new with that could adapt to fight the Sentients. In desperation, the Orokin was forced to unearth their forbidden knowledge of the Infestation that once destroyed their colonies in the past due to an uncontrolled outbreak.^[36]

At some point, Ballas began researching new uses for the Infestation by experimenting on willing and unwilling subjects drawn from Orokin warriors and other castes. Ultimately, this research led to the creation of Warframes — human subjects mutated through a specially engineered strain of the Infestation called Helminth.^[37] However, while the new Warframes were powerful and initially did well against the Sentients, they retained some remnants of their former consciousness. The echoes of their lost selves manifested as intense rage and despair, making them unpredictable and just as likely to turn against their Orokin masters.^[38]

The Orokin came to the conclusion that the Warframes alone were as uncontrollable as the Sentients, but realized that, through Transference technology, the process developed by Margulis and Silvana for the Tenno, another mind could take control of a Warframe. As only the Zariman children were capable of carrying out Transference safely, being able to empathize with the Warframe's traumatic experiences, they were able to become the new "operators" of the Warframes, a distant mind synchronized with a surrogate body.^[37]

The Zariman children were trained into the fighting force known as the Tenno, serving their Orokin masters but bounded by honor. Through Transference, they wielded Warframes to wage war against the Sentients, proving to be highly effective. Abiding by combat disciplines taught by the newly founded Tenno Focus Schools, Tenno-operated Warframes were equipped with melee and ballistic weapons to circumvent the Sentient interference of high-tech weaponry.^[39] With the help of the Tenno, the Orokin managed to turn the tide of war, leaving the Sentients helpless against the combination of archaic combat techniques and Void powers employed by the Tenno, that is until Ballas defected.

Ballas' Rebellion and Allying With Hunhow

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Unclear about the order of events with new info from Ropalolyst dialogue and Erra (Quest). In particular, when did the Orokin reprogram Natah, when did Hunhow 'die', and when did the Tenno turn on their Orokin masters? Was it under Lotus' command that the Tenno killed off the Orokin if the Orokin were the ones who reprogrammed Natah?

Ballas, with the intention of destroying the Orokin Empire, began to conspire with Hunhow. In a series of Vitruvian recordings, Ballas revealed to Hunhow the secret weakness of the hitherto unstoppable Warframes — the Tenno operators themselves. The Tenno, sequestered in a semi-conscious Transference state in the Reservoir on Lua, would be unable to protect themselves without their surrogate Warframes. Hence, Natah, Hunhow's daughter, was born as last-ditch attempt to destroy the Tenno. Being a unique breed of Mimic Sentients, she is able to visually morph into whatever form she likes.^[40] So she mimicked Margulis' appearance^[41], allowing her to serve as a spy and infiltrate the Orokin backlines.

According to the Sentients' master plan, their leader Hunhow was left to be slain in a final battle over the waters of Uranus^[29], marking the Orokin supposed victory at the time. As high-ranking Orokin gathered to celebrate their 'victory' against the Sentients in the Outer Terminus of Pluto, the Tenno betrayed them, in retaliation for executing Margulis^[42], killing most of the Executors and members of the Council^[43]. This triggered a historical event known as The Collapse which led to the fall of the Orokin Empire.^[44]^[45]

The Collapse

With the Orokin leaders dead or missing, Natah's final goal was to finally destroy the Tenno. However, she was caught by the Orokin and was reprogrammed to develop feelings for them, exploiting a "gap" in her systems from crossing through the Void.^[46]^[47]^[48]^[49] Natah's identity was subverted as a result, becoming the Lotus, human mother and guide to the Tenno.

As such, she did not kill the Tenno^[50] and used them against her Sentient brethren instead.^[48] The Orokin imprisoned the Lotus in an isolated chamber on Lua where she commanded the Tenno forces.^[51] Abandoning her final objective, she sent the moon, which also housed the Reservoirs, into the Void, masking its location with some sort of cloaking technology to protect the Tenno from any remnant Sentients.^[52] After fending off against what was left of the Sentient forces in the system, the Lotus commanded most Warframes around the Origin System to be put into cryosleep to preserve their bodies and the Tenno's memories, effectively ending The Old War. Some Warframes still roam about, with the occasional mission to hunt down remaining Orokin leaders as seen with Grendel.^[53]

Without centralized power, groups of people who were once oppressed were now free from the empire's shackles. In a state of anarchy, the Origin System saw conflict between many factions to claim domination over the territory and resources once controlled by the Orokin. There were attempts to rebuild the collapsed empire^[54], but these plans were squandered by descent groups that would eventually evolve into the Grineer and Corpus factions we know today.

The Grineer took advantage of the chaos to initiate revolts all across the system.^[43] They stole Orokin ships^[54], weapons, and managed to secure the cloning technologies that created them. During this period, the outcast Orokin Twins used this opportunity to enact revenge and began to amass armies of loyal Grineer to their cause, which eventually led to their joint ruling of the Grineer.^[55]

The Corpus, in the name of profit, eventually made a grab for the system shortly after the Grineer rose to power, quickly occupying wrecks and crash sites on various planets to scavenge Orokin technology and grow.^[56] The two factions eventually grew in strength and became equals. While the Corpus began to trade technology with the Grineer in exchange for raw materials and currency^[57], the two groups continued to compete and skirmish intermittently^[56], with planetary invasions occurring to this day.

With the collapse of the Orokin empire, the Infestation was left uncontrolled in isolated Orokin ships to spread freely across the Origin System with the occasional outbreaks.^[58] The extent of their reach is unknown, but their presence was not insignificant.^[59]

Current Warframe Era

Some indeterminate number of millennia later^[60]^[61]^[62], the Corpus are widely considered the governing force in economics and research, with the Grineer dominating the system with their military might and brutality. The Grineer both fight with the Corpus for power and buy manufacturing supplies to support their military development.^[63] At one time, the Infested had all but conquered a few of the Origin System's planets but have been pushed back to their residence on drifting ancient Orokin Derelicts and recently conquered Eris, apart from the occasional outbreak on populated planets.^{[citation needed]} All that is left of the Orokin are their terraforming efforts such as on the Orb Vallis, Venus, the few standing structures such as the Orokin Tower Unum, forgotten Prime weapons they built, and Tower ships stranded in the Void.

The Tenno are being reawakened by the Lotus, not remembering anything of their past. These Tenno awake from cryosleep already connected to a Warframe that the Lotus informs them how to use, unaware of their true nature. They are then set loose upon the Origin System, either alone or in small squads to tackle a wide variety of missions designated by the Lotus to maintain a balance between the Grineer and Corpus factions or to quell Infested uprisings.

The Corpus now exist as money-worshiping corporations with workers worshiping the very idea of a profit. Individuals like Nef Anyo act as religious leaders for the normal Corpus worker. In the meantime, the Grineer research ways to overcome their genetic degradation caused by many generations of repeated cloning. At one point, Grineer researcher Tyl Regor finds and breaks open a tomb on Uranus where an ancient Sentient was held within, unknowingly reawakening an old enemy of the Origin System.^[64]

Syndicate factions also emerged, each with their own idealogy on the fate of the Origin System amidst the glaring conflict between Grineer and Corpus empires from seeking the restoration of humanity on Earth to a system-wide purge to restore peace.

Main Story

Tenno's Awakening

Vor's Prize

Main article: Vor's Prize

Once Awake

Main article: Once Awake

Dr. Tengus, a Grineer doctor, has been experimenting with a bio-weapon of some sorts and the player is tasked to investigate. The player discovers that this bio-weapon the Grineer was working on was a strain of the Infestation that survived the events of The Old War. After a failure in a testing lab, the Infested broke out from quarantine and invaded Grineer outposts and ships on Mercury. As the possibility of an Infested outbreak was a threat to the Origin System, the Lotus commands the player to eradicate the Infestation. With the help of a Cascade Bomb infused with Void energy, the player successfully eliminated the source of the Infestation. However, because of the continued research efforts of Dr. Tengus, the System is not immune from future outbreaks.

The Archwing

Main article: The Archwing

The threat of a Grineer Balor Fomorian, the capital ship of the Fomorian fleet, tips the balance of power within the Solar System. Councilor Vay Hek declares war on the Corpus and the Chairman of the Corpus Board of Directors, Frohd Bek, in an attempt to seize total control over the Origin System.

The player is forced to construct an Orokin-era mechanical wings, an Archwing, along with an Archgun and Archmelee, to destroy it in space combat. To do so they will need to find the Odonata component blueprints that are scattered across Orokin archives throughout Venus. After obtaining their new gear, the player tries to sabotage the Fomorian, only to realize that they do not have enough firepower to do so. After destroying dozens of Grineer fighters, the player performs a tactical retreat, leaving the real battle with the Fomorian to happen another day.

Discovery of the Arcane Machine

Stolen Dreams

Main article: Stolen Dreams

Lotus tasks the player to search for the mysterious Arcane Codices. Their importance is unknown, but the Grineer had sought it for a potential cure to the Cloning Decay Syndrome that has plagued its faction and the Corpus had sought to strike riches with them.

In search of these codices, the player captures a thief named Maroo who recently stole a piece of the codices and went into hiding. Upon interrogating Maroo, the player finds out that she has been hired by Grineer scientist Tyl Regor to steal them from an Orokin Derelict. However, after the Corpus outbid the Grineer for the codex, she broke her contract and deceived Regor, swapping the real codex with a fake one, and sold the real codex to Corpus hands.

In exchange for protective custody, Maroo reluctantly join forces with the Tenno after cheating the Grineer. Maroo then revealed the locations of the codices, and after a series of Spy missions, the player successfully retrieved all six codices with Maroo's guidance. After Ordis' musings on transcribing the codices, she then informs the player that she had found a machine in the Orokin Derelict from which she had extracted her Arcane Codex. Upon entering an Orokin Void gate on Mars, the player reached the Derelict that housed the enigmatic Arcane Machine. Uploading the codices to the machine yielded a cryptic message, to which the Lotus cannot ascertain its meaning. In confusion, the player returns to their ship, empty-handed, while Maroo sets off in her own path.

The New Strange

Main article: The New Strange

Annotation 2019-09-05 141726 — Close up on object on Arcane Machine

Cephalon Simaris, a Cephalon construct that seeks to immortalize creatures into data for knowledge, requires the Tenno's assistance to free his Sentinels from custody of the Grineer. After freeing his Sentinels, the Lotus discovered "fragments of a biological signature" within the prison's security logs. Ordis plays the log and a mysterious message came up, with a voice similar to the one found from the Arcane Machine from the end of Stolen Dreams.

After refusing to answer on the subject, Simaris tells the Tenno that, in exchange for deciphering this mysterious biological signature, they must assist him in Synthesis, the process of scanning targets to be uploaded for storage in his Sanctuary. After helping Simaris, he says that the signature is of Tenno origin. A blueprint for a beacon derived from the signature is given to the player to help track down this creature. Crafting this beacon sends a signal which turns out to be a transmission from the Arcane Machine:

ALL IS SILENT AND CALM. HUSHED AND EMPTY IS THE WOMB OF THE SKY.

The Lotus informs the Tenno that this creature has been going to locations where the Arcane Codices were found, slaughtering Grineer and Corpus to cover somebody's tracks; somebody doesn't want people to know the existence of such codices or the Arcane Machine. After extracting information from a Corpus network, this creature turns out to be the Warframe Chroma who has gone rogue — not controlled by any Tenno. The hunt leads the Tenno back to the Arcane Machine where they encounter a hostile Chroma who destroyed the machine. Simaris asks the Tenno to synthesize it for its unusual behavior. However, Chroma escapes being synthesized after being scanned once. As a result, Simaris reveals to have a piece of the Arcane Codices of his own and discloses another location that holds an Arcane Machine. Luring Chroma to this particular machine results in a successful Synthesis and the Tenno receives a Chroma blueprint for their troubles. Unbeknownst to the Lotus and the Tenno, this second Arcane Machine contains a projection of a Sentient relic, hinting at future events to come.

This Is Who You Are

Natah

Main article: Natah

The Second Dream

Main article: The Second Dream

The Sentient Hunhow awakens from his slumber, seeking revenge on the Tenno for their actions during The Old War. Allying with the Stalker, they seek to destroy the "womb in the sky", later revealed as the Tenno's weakness: a Reservoir on Lua that was hidden within the Void by the Lotus to protect the Tenno from the Sentients.

The player is tasked with finding Hunhow, who infiltrated the Lotus' mind during the events of Natah. With the unexpected help of Alad V, all traces lead to a Sentient relic on Uranus, dug up by the Grineer. Interacting with the relic, the Lotus tries to ascertain the location of Hunhow, only to be foiled by allowing Hunhow to know the location of the Reservoir. With the Stalker en route, the player chases after him to prevent him from reaching the Reservoir first. The player follows the Stalker through a Void Gate into an Orokin Tower in the Void, realizing that this Reservoir is on Earth's moon that was hidden within the Void. Disabling the Orokin Tower's Void mask mechanism allows the moon's location, known as Lua, to be detectable. This allows Ordis to pick up the player from the tower and drop them onto Lua, where Stalker begins to collapse the void. The player is forced to phase Lua back out of the void in order to avoid it being crushed by the weight of the Void. Now that Lua is no longer protected from the Sentients by the Void, the only option left is to protect the Reservoir.

The truth behind the Reservoir is that in it lies the Tenno's true form, the Operator. In the Reservoir, the Operator directs their Void energy to control the Warframes remotely, a process called Transference. The Stalker rendezvous with the player but upon seeing the Operator, he hesitates to kill, leaving the player to deal with hordes of Sentient fighters with their newfound power: the ability to channel Void energy to fight in their Operator form.

Upon the Orbiter, the player has to put their Operator into a new Transference vessel: the Somatic Link at the back of the ship. In the final clash between the player and the Stalker, the player proves victorious and subsequently encounters the Lotus in-person for first time. As the Lotus carries the unconscious Operator into the Somatic Link, the player regains some of their memories of being a Tenno, remembering one of the five great schools that they once belonged to in the Orokin Age (the Old War).

This is who you really are. A Tenno. More than human... but once a child like any other.

—Lotus

The War Within

Main article: The War Within

A disturbance on Reservoirs in Lua prompts the Tenno to investigate the problem. Turns out Teshin has intruded the same location where the player retrieved their Tenno body on Lua, to lure them out, revealing that he is a double agent for the Grineer Queens. In pursuit of the truth, the Tenno follows Teshin's deployed Specters who leads them to a supposedly uninhabited asteroid field. Disabling the security matrix exposes the Kuva Fortress, the central base of Grineer operations and home to the Twin Queens. The Tenno realizes the base's mobile state prevented them from encountering it.

Infiltrating the fortress, the Tenno discovers the Queen's lair, along with Teshin, under control of Queens' Kuva Scepter due to his status as an Orokin Dax soldier. The Dax were biologically programmed to not disobey those with Orokin blood, Kuva. So, unrelentingly, Teshin has brought the Tenno to the Queens for Continuity, the ritual of transferring consciousness between bodies for everlasting life. Due to repeated cloning, the Queens' bodies had suffered the Cloning Decay Syndrome with each cycle of Continuity, so to preserve their immortality, they need a new, young body. Before they capture the Tenno, Ordis cuts off Transference, in an attempt to protect the Operator while leaving their Warframe behind. However, the Queens will start the process of Continuity, burrowing into the Tenno's mind through their Warframe surrogate.

After a transitional period into a vision, the Tenno, now in Operator form, appears on an mountain under a snowstorm. There they meet Teshin who instructs them through the mountain pass to regain their memories as a Tenno, which were suppressed by Margulis in an effort to protect them from the Void. The tragic Zariman Ten Zero incident becomes clearer to the Tenno as they regain their ability to manipulate the Void without the need to channel it through a Warframe.

Margulis lied to you, a lie of omission. She did not cure the Zariman children — she erased them. My only hope is that truth still lingers inside you, buried within your mind. The power and the misery... of the Void.

—Teshin

With their original powers back, the Tenno return back to the Kuva Fortress to save Teshin from the Queens. After a series of battle with the Queens' guards and Teshin himself, the Tenno finally circumvents the Queens' defense and steals their Kuva Scepter. Now vulnerable, the Tenno and Teshin kill the Elder Queen, leaving Worm Queen to escape the confines of death.

Back at the mountain pass vision, the Tenno decides what to do with the Kuva stolen from the Queens. Regardless of their decision, a mysterious figure whispers in their mind, foreshadowing the outcome of regaining their Void powers.

Chains of Harrow

Main article: Chains of Harrow

For more backstory, see Rell (Webcomic).

The Tenno receives a strange transmission from an abandoned Steel Meridian ship that draws their attention. Upon arriving on this ship, they discover its crew murdered in cold blood. Odd messages written in blood are scattered throughout, haunting the Tenno as they track down the suspect. Here, they meet Palladino, the Holy Speaker of the Red Veil, who says that their syndicate is in shambles. Their sacred muse, a Tenno named Rell, abandoned his post in their temple, causing chaos throughout their organization. Unlike other Tenno, Rell did not go into cryosleep in the Lua's Reservoirs for he was cast out by Margulis and his fellow Tenno for having blinded Margulis^[65]. Instead, he sacrificed his life, bound his spirit to his Warframe, Harrow, who became a resting vigil towards The Man in The Wall itself.

Requesting protection, the Tenno brought Palladino to the Steel Meridian base, Iron Wake, where she will be watched by Steel Meridian personnel. To contact Rell, Palladino asks the Tenno to bring back a sacred relic in order to complete her seance. Apparently, Rell still retains memories of his humanity despite having a manic episode that resulted from losing control over Transference due to attacks from The Man in The Wall. To resolve this, the Tenno captures Rell's manifestations of emotion, disturbances made of Transference energy, and return them to the Red Veil temple in the Void.

In order to end Rell's suffering, the Tenno frees Harrow from his chains, allowing Rell to rest in slumber. However, with no vessel to protect against The Man in The Wall, the Tenno will have to deal with the consequences.

Hey kiddo.

—The Man in The Wall

The Lotus' Disappearance

Apostasy Prologue

Main article: Apostasy Prologue

A faint purple orb at the end of the Orbiter's Personal Quarters beckons the attention of the Tenno. Upon interacting with it, the Tenno is transitioned to somewhere on Lua where they begin following a purple trail that retraces the path to the room where the player recovered their Tenno body from the Reservoir. As they travel through, they experience the final moments of Margulis before her execution leading up to the discovery of Lotus' enclave at the end of the trail. There, Orokin Executor Ballas appears to apologize to the Lotus and promises to not abandon "Margulis" again. Holding hands, both Ballas and the Lotus disappear into a mysterious light, leaving the Tenno in their Operator form clutching at the remains of Lotus' helmet. The Lotus has left. The mother has abandoned her children.

The Sacrifice

Main article: The Sacrifice

The Tenno hears faint whispers of the recently abandoned Lotus. Her voice directs them towards her helmet within the Orbiter's Personal Quarters. As the Operator touches the helm, visions of a Warframe being restrained by Ballas and Sentient fighters flow in their mind, prompting them towards Earth to investigate.

The Warframe in question, Excalibur Umbra, was out of sight — only his remains survived his fight with the Sentients. Ordis attempts to recreate him in the Foundry based on scans of his remains but lacks sufficient data to do so. Trace minerals on Umbra's Skiajati Nikana suggest that more information can be found on Lua. A visit to Lua yielded a Vitruvian device found within a containment lab that belonged to Ballas. This Vitruvian contained recordings made by Ballas on his betrayal to the Orokin during The Old War and the origin of Warframes. Uploading the Vitruvian into the ship's mainframe gave the ability to craft Excalibur Umbra. Upon equipping him in the Arsenal, he immediately goes berserk and damages his own helmet to reveal an eye, then pins the Operator into a wall until they enter his mind using Transference. The Tenno learns of Umbra's origins as a personal punishment from Ballas upon a Dax soldier for spying on him during his late betrayal of the Orokin. A Dax soldier subjected to injections of a Helminth Infestation strain to produce skin-grafted armor and modified organs, akin to the typical Warframe design process during the Old War.

The memory abruptly ends, and the Operator finds out that Umbra has escaped the ship, rejecting Transference. They chase down Umbra as more entries of the Vitruvian become unlocked by accessing his memories. He contains the key to the secrets of the Warframes themselves.

After multiple tries, the Operator eventually accesses Umbra's final memory: killing his own son Isaah when the Infestation takes over his body and Ballas forces him to act through the modified transference bolt. The Operator intervenes in this event, telling Umbra that he doesn't have to relive this event in solitude, instead, they will face this grief together through the duality of mind and body. Umbra as the hand, the Operator as the soul.

And it was not their force of will — not their Void devilry — not their alien darkness... it was something else. It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing — and take away its pain.

—Ballas in the Vitruvian

In this revelation, the minds of Umbra and the Operator are linked — Transference was successful. With this newfound power, the Operator and Umbra fend off a Sentient assault and return to Earth to face Ballas.

During the final confrontation, Umbra successfully stabs Ballas in the gut, defying Ballas' subjugation thanks to the Operator. After questioning him on the whereabouts of the Lotus, she appears from the sky in a Sentient battle form, taking Ballas with her as she returns back to her Mother. The Lotus seems to no longer be the motherly figure that the Tenno loved.

Amalgamation of the Origin System

Chimera Prologue

Main article: Chimera Prologue

The Man in The Wall manifests itself in the Orbiter's Personal Quarters, luring the Tenno towards the Lotus' helmet, dropped during the events of Apostasy Prologue. When the Tenno touches the helmet, they are transported to Lua, where they begin to follow The Man in The Wall. The Man in The Wall leads the Tenno through the Reservoir, and into the Chamber of the Lotus. A portal at the end of the room transports the Tenno into a Sentient chamber that seems to imprison Ballas, now malformed with Sentient growth. Cursing the Lotus for allegedly deceiving him, Ballas discreetly constructs the "Sentient Slayer" away from what he claims to be Lotus' watchful eye. The Tenno grasps the image of the legendary Paracesis , learning its blueprint in the process. — The New War is coming.

Alad V's Amalgams

Main article: Alad V#The Jovian Concord

For the related event, see Operation: Hostile Mergers.

Alad V returned to work for the Corpus back on Jupiter, although due to the failure of the Zanuka Project and the Mutalist Incursion incident, along with Nef Anyo's Orb Vallis terraforming project winning the favor of Board of Director Frohd Bek, Alad's reputation has since severely diminished. He was approached by an old acquaintance, Regus, who offered him never-before-seen Old War tech. Alad immediately jumped the chance and begun investing, quickly signing a contract that Regus immediately agreed to despite Alad's attempts at manipulating loopholes. However, he soon came to realize something was very wrong when Regus flashed at him with an inhuman smile.

Alad realized too late that the Regus that approached him was actually a Sentient Mimic; to his horror, he had entered an unwitting partnership with the enemy. Alad's attempts to defy submission instantly met in failure; he had no choice but to comply with the Amalgam project and create soldiers for the Sentients, or the Ropalolyst would raze his gas city and his Corpus rivals would execute him for treason.

The Amalgam program turned out to be a success. As per agreements, the identities of his partners would be kept confidential, instating a strict no-fly zone on their craft. All while Alad V told to himself, "Life is Profit."

In addition to creating the Amalgams, Alad V also works to receive combat data against the Warframes and sends it over to his partners. However, his boasting about his "exciting new product line" is merely a facade, even encouraging and expressing gratitude to the Tenno when they fight the Ropalolyst.

Main article: Lotus#The Jovian Concord

Main article: Fragments/Partnership

The Sentients trick Alad V into partnership, forcing him to create the Amalgams, Grineer/Corpus hybridized with Sentient powers. These new units, along with their combat data against the Tenno, would further serve the Sentients in their preparation for The New War.

During the mission to kill the Ropalolyst, Natah informs the Tenno that the belief that she spared them as an act of mercy was false: rather that she was forced into doing so by the Orokin, and that they were both "imprisoned in Lua's belly", shedding light on the events of the Apostasy Prologue as a result. Natah also addresses that she "has seen the wall's other face", implying that during her time in her chambers on Lua, that the Void affected her as well with The Man in The Wall. Furthermore, she establishes the Tenno as the evil entity for the "destruction of my people" following the Ropalolyst's defeat, and foreshadows the events to come in The New War.

The New War

Erra

Main article: Erra (Quest)

In preparation of The New War, the Tenno travels to the Veil Proxima with their Railjack crew, only to discover a Murex Ship. With their Paracesis in hand, they board the Murex to fend off the Sentient threat. Afterwards, they destroy a mysterious red crystal at the end of the Murex, which upon re-boarding the Orbiter reveals flashbacks about The Old War and Natah's brother, Erra. A vision of the Sentient Mothership exposes a meeting between Erra and Natah, hinting at an escalation of the war with Natah's war cry.

Operation: Scarlet Spear

Main article: Operation: Scarlet Spear

The Sentients are invading the Origin System—their first destination: Earth. Tenno must coordinate their efforts to fend off Sentient Murex warships in space and Condrix drop ships on the ground. Little Duck has set up a Scarlet Spear Flotilla Relay off Earth's atmosphere as the Tenno's primary base of operations during this invasion.

Angered by the presence of Sentient and Tenno alike, General Sargas Ruk of the Grineer faction tries to sabotage the Tenno's efforts in fending off Condrixes on the forests of Grineer-controlled Earth, believing that it is the Tenno's fault for the Sentient invasion.

Alad V Arc

DEAlad VDuo — Alad V and his Zanuka proxy

Main article: Alad V#Lore

As Alad V plays an important role during the events of The Second Dream, knowing his history with the Tenno is paramount to understanding why he was so eager to helping them, despite being of Corpus origin.

The Zanuka Project

The Gradivus Dilemma

Main article: The Gradivus Dilemma

Corpus scientist and entrepreneur Alad V discovers a cache of Tenno in cryosleep on Mars, intending to use them for his secret weapon: The Zanuka Project. Grineer General Sargas Ruk responds by invading Corpus territory and expanding their control over the Origin System, under the excuse that the Corpus violated a contract regarding the weaponization of ancient Orokin technology: the Warframes. To tip the balance of power, the Tenno is under a dilemma: to free their kin, or to let Grineer expansion run amuck.

After a six-day war, the Grineer proved victorious over the Corpus, holding the most sectors under their control.

The Hunt For Alad V

Main article: The Hunt For Alad V

For more, see Zanuka Project.

Despite losing The Gradivus Dilemma, Alad V continued to work on his Zanuka Project in secret, capturing a Warframe called Valkyr and dissecting its parts for the creation of a new Corpus proxy with Warframe abilities. Corpus Board Member Frohd Bek's pending position as the CEO of the Corpus is being threatened by Alad's research. As Alad's direct rival, he is afraid of his success and attempts to sabotage Alad's work, sending ships to his laboratory. However, Bek's ships have been infected for some unknown reason.

In desperation, Bek pleas a deal with the Tenno, to help him rid of the Infestation and in return, he'll disclose Alad's research facility. After doing so, the Tenno raids Alad V's laboratory in the gas cities of Jupiter and successfully frees Valkyr, who was modified with Corpus constraints. Physically and mentally scarred as a subject to Alad V's brutal methods, Valkyr was used to construct a Zanuka prototype which never reached mass production due to the Tenno's valiant efforts. With the lack of support and funding to his project, Alad V had to develop the lesser Zanuka Hunter as a result, who now hunts down the Tenno to gather more Warframes to continue his project.

Suspicious Shipments

Main article: Suspicious Shipments

The Lotus detects an unusual amount of Corpus vessels that are traveling outside their normal shipping routes. Upon investigating these highly secured ships, the Tenno discovers that Alad V is researching the Infestation, remarking the Corpus' ban on Infested biotechnology. Reconciling his shortcomings in his Zanuka Project, Alad explores forbidden knowledge in hopes of getting the attention of the Corpus Board of Directors and be subsequently promoted for reaching new heights in the name of profit. Soon, Alad will conceive the Mutalist strain that he sought for, albeit with horrible consequences.

The Mutalist Experiments

Operation: Breeding Grounds

Main article: Operation: Breeding Grounds

With the Zanuka Project slowing to a halt, Alad V decided to look into the Infestation for answers to his disappointing portfolio. His studies resulted in a new development of the Infestation, the Mutalist strain, having the ability to infect inorganic beings such as the robotic MOA. To transmit his creation throughout the Origin System, he engineered Infested Hives, tumors that are capable of corrupting ships and colonies in a matter of seconds.

The Lotus learns of a massive Infested outbreak off Eris and sends the Tenno to destroy the Infested Hives, fearing a system-wide outbreak. Despite temporarily hindering Alad's plans, he mocks the Tenno's futile efforts on stopping the inevitable: the domination of his Mutalist empire.

Operation: Mutalist Incursions

Main article: Operation: Mutalist Incursions

After the failure of the Zanuka Project, Alad V ventures off to research the Infestation, only to return with a new look, being exposed to the Mutalist Infested strain that he has been experimenting on. He introduces existing Corpus proxies blended with Mutalist flesh such as the Mutalist Osprey, along with new Infested units like Brood Mother and Boilers. Under the partial control of the Infested, he declares a new Mutalist Empire, boasting his research as the next evolution of humanity.

To counter this threat, the Tenno successfully purged most of these Mutalist enemies from the Origin System, reducing their danger to the Orokin Derelicts and the Infested planet Eris. However, Alad's actions have left the system vulnerable to random Infestation Outbreaks, leaving the Tenno to fend them alongside the Grineer and Corpus in the future.

Patient Zero

Main article: Patient Zero

Coinciding with the events in Operation: Mutalist Incursions, Alad V, now turned Mutalist, continues to thrive and populate his Mutalist creations throughout the Origin System. The Tenno attempts to triangulate Alad's location by sabotaging Infested ships. Eventually, they reach Alad's lab and destroy it, after which he unveils his newest creation: a Mesa Warframe controlled by the Infestation. Putting Mesa out of her misery, the Tenno obtains information on Alad's true location. They eventually assassinate Mutalist Alad V on an Infested Corpus ship, drifting in orbit around Eris.

Remarkably, Alad V survived, but the Tenno crippled his ability to deal further damage with his experiments on the Infestation.

Operation: Tubemen of Regor

Main article: Operation: Tubemen of Regor

The Lotus intercepted information on Grineer scientist Tyl Regor's secret cloning labs in the depths of Uranus. Deciding it was the perfect opportunity to weaken the Grineer Empire, who were already struggling to revert the effects of their Cloning Decay Syndrome, the Lotus instructs the Tenno to go to the Grineer Sealabs, allowing them to choose whether to destroy Regor's research or to steal it.

Alad V, a shadow of his former self, begs the Tenno to find a cure within those labs, in hopes to cure himself of the Infestation he was exposed to during his prior research. In response, Corpus plutocrat Nef Anyo offers to pay the Tenno to destroy the cure in spite of Alad V's traitorous actions to the Corpus.

Regardless of who the Tenno sided with, Alad V eventually finds a cure, becoming one of the few survivors of the Infestation.

Post Second Dream

Operation: Shadow Debt

Main article: Operation: Shadow Debt

After helping the Tenno during the events of The Second Dream, Shadow Stalker's followers, the Acolytes, hunt Alad V in vengeance. Alad V requests the Tenno to protect him as part of their deal for helping them unveil Hunhow's tomb. To triangulate the Acolytes' locations, the Tenno acquire security data from Grineer and Corpus systems through a series of Spy and Mobile Defense missions. The hunter becomes the hunted as the Tenno pursue Acolytes across the Origin System. In the final confrontation with the Acolyte Misery, the Tenno successfully fend off the assassin. Alad V is safe, for now.

References

↑ "Grineer" Cephalon Fragment
↑ "Infested" and "Infestation" Cephalon Fragments
↑ "Void" Cephalon Fragment
↑ "Orokin" Cephalon Fragment
↑ "The Orokin had a visage imbued with variation, beauty and symmetry, but we had the Lora nodes protruding from our right temples. Their skin was silken; ours was weaved with ribbons of metallic fascia that snaked around our bodies and into the Lora Device embedded in our palms. We made them uncomfortable and they made that known; that is, until they were sick or hurt and then we were saviors." Corrupted Ancient Synthesis Imprint
↑ "...everything is filthy." I was rambling. "They manufacture filth. My robes have gone from yellow to black. I'm so tired, I don't even feel Orokin anymore." - Guardsman Synthesis Imprint
↑ Alluded in Arid Eviscerator and Lancer Synthesis imprints
↑ "Day after day we toiled, my father, my brother Cladius, pulling grains for the Orokin takers in the city, as our kind had done for generations. We were young but the work made us old. Our backs ached, our hands bled, the sun tortured our skin. In the worst times, it felt as though death would claim us before the day was through. [...] The city. Those towers. I was struck with awe. What glorious totems of greed those Orokin had built. Built on. Our. Backs. Their wealth was my wealth. I was starved, while our masters were fat. and full. and warm." - Parvos Granum in The Tenets
↑ "My gift to the future is an idea; an idea that wealth need not settle as a crust upon the upper echelons of the populace. No. Any poor grain farmer can, should he feed his Desire and apply his wisdom, take fortune for himself. [...] 'Ours is the grasping golden hand. We are desire. We are Corpus.'" - Parvos Granum in The Tenets
↑ See Orb Vallis
↑ "Wildlife" Cephalon Fragment
↑ Raksa Kubrow, Sunika Kubrow, and Sahasa Kubrow Codex entries
↑ "As I log this, I'm looking out the stained plastic of my field tent into the dead-yellow sky of Earth. I smell the vague sulfur and toxins leaking through the seals, yet somehow I'm going to miss this place. Leaving her feels like I'm giving up on my dream. My dream to see green and blue return to this sick and dying mother of us all." - Silvana during The Silver Grove
↑ Operator: "The soft lines of a hand, my mother's, I think. We were watching the stars, awaiting the jump to Tau. She was afraid."
Lotus: "Memories. From your time aboard the Zariman Ten Zero, before the Void-Jump accident. It was years before the ship was recovered. It was drifting dead in space, all her crew gone... except the children."
- Dialogue during The Second Dream
↑ Ember Prime's Codex entry
↑ "The grownups are howling at the door... drowning mad in the Void ocean but you... you are at ease swimming within the depths! You remember then how the howling stopped - they had broken through." - Elder Queen during The War Within
↑ "No crew aboard, only the children... only the parricidal monsters they had become. The endless Void, the gazing abyss, the bottomless ocean of horror... it coiled itself around your tender heart." - Elder Queen during The War Within
↑ Rell (Webcomic)
↑ Rhino Prime's Codex entry
↑ Lotus: "It was here Margulis put you into the dream, tried to heal you... tried to give you the strength to tame the Void within you. In a way, this is where you, where all Tenno, were born."
Operator: "But we weren't born here, were we?"
Lotus: "No. When the Zaraman was found adrift, the Orokin did everything they could to erase their mistakes. Transit recordings, personnel logs... everything was wiped out. The only thing they kept was... you."
- Dialogue during The War Within
↑ "You were so brave - but the Orokin were afraid of you. The Void had changed you and you couldn't control it, no one could. They were about to destroy the orphans of Ten-Zero but Margulis... she loved you, she found a way..." - Lotus during The Second Dream
↑ "We couldn't help it, the outbursts. We hurt her, blinded her, but even then, she never abandoned us. In the dream we found peace, and she sang to us in that cold, dark..." - Operator during The Second Dream
↑ The Silver Grove quest
↑ Ballas: "I told you not to speak out. If you recant, maybe-"
Margulis: "-You lied to me, Ballas. You're no different than the rest of them."
Ballas: "Margulis... please... forgive me. [...] Honored Seven, we have gathered here today to carry out the sentencing of Archimedian Margulis... You face the Jade Light, recant, and we will grant a merciful death." - Dialogue during Apostasy Prologue
↑ "Yet you couldn't understand why I'd give my secrets to our enemy. How could I betray my own kind? But you have never had to sacrifice your love for faith. Imagine. To live, forever, with only one memory: seeing the one you love, die." - Ballas during The Sacrifice
↑ Alluded in Detron Crewman Synthesis Imprint
↑ "My father was a farmer. My mother, a carpenter. Given light by the Golden Lords, to build for them... a better world. But my family's journey was long. Time began to change their light. Creativity. Pride. A will to live." - Natah during Ropalolyst boss fight
↑ "What led us here? You did. You vile blasphemies. Machines... thinking... breeding... You were to bear us a new, promised land. But when you arrived at that distant world... you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well. As we had to Earth. And so it was... we came to war." - Ballas during The Sacrifice
↑ ^29.0 ^29.1 "We crossed the gap, wombs in ruin, to bring an end to this. We severed the worlds, let them destroy me, why is the sequence not complete?" - Hunhow during Natah
↑ Lotus: "All missions to the Origin System required a sacrifice. Me and my kind become barren when crossing the gap. It is the one flaw that we never overcame. Hence, they could return to the Origin System for this price."
Teshin: "Natah wanted children of her own."
- Dialogue during Natah
↑ "Orokin Outer Terminus positions have fallen to the Sentient Armada. Our orders: Behead the fleet. My Crew: Sukhin, Krodhi, Zada. There are none finer. We are... Family. We will stop this war in its tracks. We are... the Orokin Empire's best hope. We were." - Cephalon Cy during Rising Tide
↑ Lancer Synthesis imprint
↑ Excalibur Prime Codex entry
↑ "Lust was my sin. But greed is the blight that weakens our steel. These industrialists have gorged on the harvest of our long war. Their mind drones; Their mechanizations, toil in foundries remote. For what purpose? We must set watch upon them. Baiting our snares with the worms of profit." - Ballas during Vauban Prime trailer
↑ "Corpus" Cephalon Fragment
↑ "Our hubris shone like a black star... for our technology, our war-machines were your kin. How easily you turned them against us. We were forced to older means. Not circuits, nor light... but flesh and disease. Our horrors past, our ravaged outer colonies... became gardens!" - Ballas during The Sacrifice
↑ ^37.0 ^37.1 The Sacrifice quest
↑ Alluded in Rhino Prime Codex entry
↑ "Warframes", "Warframe Technology", "Archaic Weapons" Cephalon Fragments
↑ "So the Golden Wrath came. And after, I was born. A mimic, a spy. Conceived to burrow into nests and swallow the pitch-eggs of their war machine: The Tenno." - Natah during Ropalolyst boss fight
↑ "Great Sentient Queen, forgive me, but what you are, what you've made of yourself... is merely drawn from the dreams of these divine children. You are not she, you are not... Margulis." - Palladino during Chains of Harrow
↑ "She put us into the dream, brought us peace. I remember we could still hear her voice, raging at the leaders for their mistreatment of us. When they executed her... well... I could not let that go." - Operator during The Second Dream
↑ ^43.0 ^43.1 Alluded in the Guardsman Synthesis imprint
↑ Stalker/Shadow Stalker Codex entry
↑ "The Collapse" Codex entry
↑ "Natah was the daughter until I destroyed her. Now I am the Lotus. Now I am the mother." - Lotus during Natah
↑ "But when I saw your tender faces, I took mercy. Or so we were told. But in truth, we were both imprisoned in Lua's belly. My light remade by the Creators. I became a memory, a ghost. Reprogrammed to destroy my family, my people, my history." - Natah during Ropalolyst boss fight
↑ ^48.0 ^48.1 Erra: "Look at what they've made of you! You're a God. You're a Queen! But somehow the bees have you as a hostage. Do you even recognize me anymore?"
Lotus: "I recognize the enemy."
Erra: "No... sister. It's me. Erra—The Makers caught you. Unraveled your mind. They're using you to kill us! 'The Queen of the Aphids' with her Eye in the Void. But I don't blame you... I blame... them! You believe these are your children... But I'm the only family you've got left! So choose! Our family, our people... or these parasites. Choose Natah! Choose!"
Lotus: "I am not... 'Natah'... I am... THE LOTUS."
—Dialogue during Erra (Quest)
↑ The Lotus helmet could be the source of this interference, alluded to when Ballas disconnected Lotus from her helmet during Apostasy Prologue
↑ Lotus: "There are gaps. I had my mission and I completed it. All but the last sequence."
Teshin: "To destroy the Tenno."
-Dialogue during Natah
↑ Apostasy Prologue quest
↑ "Hunhow's found it. The Reservoir, hidden in the Void, a place Sentients can never reach. We must do everything to keep it there. It's the only way to keep the Tenno's power alive." - Lotus during The Second Dream
↑ Grendel's Leverian entry
↑ ^54.0 ^54.1 Arid Eviscerator Synthesis imprint
↑ Kuria poem
↑ ^56.0 ^56.1 Anti MOA Synthesis imprint
↑ "Using a single unified currency helps reduce many problems that arise when making complex trades -- such as Grineer bidding on Corpus weaponry or Corpus purchasing raw materials en masse from various mining colonies." - Cephalon Cordylon Entry 15
↑ "Derelict" Cephalon Fragment
↑ Corrupted Ancient Synthesis imprint
↑ "Deep within this millennia-old Orokin-turned-Infested ship lurks a creature created to fight in the Old War. Make your way to its location and dispatch this monster." - The Lotus on Lephantis
↑ "The Vallis lifeforms emerged like memories, as Venus herself remembered who she was. This, here, is one of the most distant, most precious remembrances – an original Orokin strain, unseen for millennia." - The Business on Red-Crested Vermink
↑ "Specimen VK-7, unlike the others, did not come from a gene record. She was found, frozen, in a sealed closet close to the environmental control station. Her unassuming tomb for millennia. Here, then, was an intact example of Orokin-era fauna." - Sigor Savah on Venari
↑ The dogs are barking again. They somehow figured out we have been stockpiling. This upsets them given how we have been tightening the leash on their contracts. The Sisters are demanding we lower our material prices or suffer retribution by some new supership they have. Obviously they do not teach economics at obedience training. - Intercepted message by Alad V during Operation Sling-Stone
↑ The Second Dream quest
↑ BLINDED SHE CAST HIM OUT

↑ Prelude to War is compilation of miniquests and cutscenes leading up to The New War.
↑ While not part of the main story quest, The Duviri Paradox has very interlinked story context to several critical characters in The New War. It is recommended to play The Duviri Paradox after The New War.

[1] "Grineer" Cephalon Fragment

[2] "Infested" and "Infestation" Cephalon Fragments

[3] "Void" Cephalon Fragment

[4] "Orokin" Cephalon Fragment

[5] "The Orokin had a visage imbued with variation, beauty and symmetry, but we had the Lora nodes protruding from our right temples. Their skin was silken; ours was weaved with ribbons of metallic fascia that snaked around our bodies and into the Lora Device embedded in our palms. We made them uncomfortable and they made that known; that is, until they were sick or hurt and then we were saviors." Corrupted Ancient Synthesis Imprint

[6] "...everything is filthy." I was rambling. "They manufacture filth. My robes have gone from yellow to black. I'm so tired, I don't even feel Orokin anymore." - Guardsman Synthesis Imprint

[7] Alluded in Arid Eviscerator and Lancer Synthesis imprints

[8] "Day after day we toiled, my father, my brother Cladius, pulling grains for the Orokin takers in the city, as our kind had done for generations. We were young but the work made us old. Our backs ached, our hands bled, the sun tortured our skin. In the worst times, it felt as though death would claim us before the day was through. [...] The city. Those towers. I was struck with awe. What glorious totems of greed those Orokin had built. Built on. Our. Backs. Their wealth was my wealth. I was starved, while our masters were fat. and full. and warm." - Parvos Granum in The Tenets

[9] "My gift to the future is an idea; an idea that wealth need not settle as a crust upon the upper echelons of the populace. No. Any poor grain farmer can, should he feed his Desire and apply his wisdom, take fortune for himself. [...] 'Ours is the grasping golden hand. We are desire. We are Corpus.'" - Parvos Granum in The Tenets

[10] See Orb Vallis

[11] "Wildlife" Cephalon Fragment

[12] Raksa Kubrow, Sunika Kubrow, and Sahasa Kubrow Codex entries

[13] "As I log this, I'm looking out the stained plastic of my field tent into the dead-yellow sky of Earth. I smell the vague sulfur and toxins leaking through the seals, yet somehow I'm going to miss this place. Leaving her feels like I'm giving up on my dream. My dream to see green and blue return to this sick and dying mother of us all." - Silvana during The Silver Grove

[14] Operator: "The soft lines of a hand, my mother's, I think. We were watching the stars, awaiting the jump to Tau. She was afraid."
Lotus: "Memories. From your time aboard the Zariman Ten Zero, before the Void-Jump accident. It was years before the ship was recovered. It was drifting dead in space, all her crew gone... except the children."
- Dialogue during The Second Dream

[15] Ember Prime's Codex entry

[16] "The grownups are howling at the door... drowning mad in the Void ocean but you... you are at ease swimming within the depths! You remember then how the howling stopped - they had broken through." - Elder Queen during The War Within

[17] "No crew aboard, only the children... only the parricidal monsters they had become. The endless Void, the gazing abyss, the bottomless ocean of horror... it coiled itself around your tender heart." - Elder Queen during The War Within

[18] Rell (Webcomic)

[rhino_prime-19] Rhino Prime's Codex entry

[20] Lotus: "It was here Margulis put you into the dream, tried to heal you... tried to give you the strength to tame the Void within you. In a way, this is where you, where all Tenno, were born."
Operator: "But we weren't born here, were we?"
Lotus: "No. When the Zaraman was found adrift, the Orokin did everything they could to erase their mistakes. Transit recordings, personnel logs... everything was wiped out. The only thing they kept was... you."
- Dialogue during The War Within

[21] "You were so brave - but the Orokin were afraid of you. The Void had changed you and you couldn't control it, no one could. They were about to destroy the orphans of Ten-Zero but Margulis... she loved you, she found a way..." - Lotus during The Second Dream

[22] "We couldn't help it, the outbursts. We hurt her, blinded her, but even then, she never abandoned us. In the dream we found peace, and she sang to us in that cold, dark..." - Operator during The Second Dream

[23] The Silver Grove quest

[24] Ballas: "I told you not to speak out. If you recant, maybe-"
Margulis: "-You lied to me, Ballas. You're no different than the rest of them."
Ballas: "Margulis... please... forgive me. [...] Honored Seven, we have gathered here today to carry out the sentencing of Archimedian Margulis... You face the Jade Light, recant, and we will grant a merciful death." - Dialogue during Apostasy Prologue

[25] "Yet you couldn't understand why I'd give my secrets to our enemy. How could I betray my own kind? But you have never had to sacrifice your love for faith. Imagine. To live, forever, with only one memory: seeing the one you love, die." - Ballas during The Sacrifice

[26] Alluded in Detron Crewman Synthesis Imprint

[27] "My father was a farmer. My mother, a carpenter. Given light by the Golden Lords, to build for them... a better world. But my family's journey was long. Time began to change their light. Creativity. Pride. A will to live." - Natah during Ropalolyst boss fight

[28] "What led us here? You did. You vile blasphemies. Machines... thinking... breeding... You were to bear us a new, promised land. But when you arrived at that distant world... you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well. As we had to Earth. And so it was... we came to war." - Ballas during The Sacrifice

[Hunhow-29] 29.0 ^29.1 "We crossed the gap, wombs in ruin, to bring an end to this. We severed the worlds, let them destroy me, why is the sequence not complete?" - Hunhow during Natah

[30] Lotus: "All missions to the Origin System required a sacrifice. Me and my kind become barren when crossing the gap. It is the one flaw that we never overcame. Hence, they could return to the Origin System for this price."
Teshin: "Natah wanted children of her own."
- Dialogue during Natah

[31] "Orokin Outer Terminus positions have fallen to the Sentient Armada. Our orders: Behead the fleet. My Crew: Sukhin, Krodhi, Zada. There are none finer. We are... Family. We will stop this war in its tracks. We are... the Orokin Empire's best hope. We were." - Cephalon Cy during Rising Tide

[32] Lancer Synthesis imprint

[33] Excalibur Prime Codex entry

[34] "Lust was my sin. But greed is the blight that weakens our steel. These industrialists have gorged on the harvest of our long war. Their mind drones; Their mechanizations, toil in foundries remote. For what purpose? We must set watch upon them. Baiting our snares with the worms of profit." - Ballas during Vauban Prime trailer

[35] "Corpus" Cephalon Fragment

[36] "Our hubris shone like a black star... for our technology, our war-machines were your kin. How easily you turned them against us. We were forced to older means. Not circuits, nor light... but flesh and disease. Our horrors past, our ravaged outer colonies... became gardens!" - Ballas during The Sacrifice

[sacrifice-37] 37.0 ^37.1 The Sacrifice quest

[38] Alluded in Rhino Prime Codex entry

[39] "Warframes", "Warframe Technology", "Archaic Weapons" Cephalon Fragments

[40] "So the Golden Wrath came. And after, I was born. A mimic, a spy. Conceived to burrow into nests and swallow the pitch-eggs of their war machine: The Tenno." - Natah during Ropalolyst boss fight

[41] "Great Sentient Queen, forgive me, but what you are, what you've made of yourself... is merely drawn from the dreams of these divine children. You are not she, you are not... Margulis." - Palladino during Chains of Harrow

[42] "She put us into the dream, brought us peace. I remember we could still hear her voice, raging at the leaders for their mistreatment of us. When they executed her... well... I could not let that go." - Operator during The Second Dream

[guardsman-43] 43.0 ^43.1 Alluded in the Guardsman Synthesis imprint

[stalker-44] Stalker/Shadow Stalker Codex entry

[45] "The Collapse" Codex entry

[46] "Natah was the daughter until I destroyed her. Now I am the Lotus. Now I am the mother." - Lotus during Natah

[47] "But when I saw your tender faces, I took mercy. Or so we were told. But in truth, we were both imprisoned in Lua's belly. My light remade by the Creators. I became a memory, a ghost. Reprogrammed to destroy my family, my people, my history." - Natah during Ropalolyst boss fight

[Erra-48] 48.0 ^48.1 Erra: "Look at what they've made of you! You're a God. You're a Queen! But somehow the bees have you as a hostage. Do you even recognize me anymore?"
Lotus: "I recognize the enemy."
Erra: "No... sister. It's me. Erra—The Makers caught you. Unraveled your mind. They're using you to kill us! 'The Queen of the Aphids' with her Eye in the Void. But I don't blame you... I blame... them! You believe these are your children... But I'm the only family you've got left! So choose! Our family, our people... or these parasites. Choose Natah! Choose!"
Lotus: "I am not... 'Natah'... I am... THE LOTUS."
—Dialogue during Erra (Quest)

[49] The Lotus helmet could be the source of this interference, alluded to when Ballas disconnected Lotus from her helmet during Apostasy Prologue

[50] Lotus: "There are gaps. I had my mission and I completed it. All but the last sequence."
Teshin: "To destroy the Tenno."
-Dialogue during Natah

[51] Apostasy Prologue quest

[52] "Hunhow's found it. The Reservoir, hidden in the Void, a place Sentients can never reach. We must do everything to keep it there. It's the only way to keep the Tenno's power alive." - Lotus during The Second Dream

[53] Grendel's Leverian entry

[arid_eviscerator-54] 54.0 ^54.1 Arid Eviscerator Synthesis imprint

[55] Kuria poem

[anti_moa-56] 56.0 ^56.1 Anti MOA Synthesis imprint

[57] "Using a single unified currency helps reduce many problems that arise when making complex trades -- such as Grineer bidding on Corpus weaponry or Corpus purchasing raw materials en masse from various mining colonies." - Cephalon Cordylon Entry 15

[58] "Derelict" Cephalon Fragment

[59] Corrupted Ancient Synthesis imprint

[60] "Deep within this millennia-old Orokin-turned-Infested ship lurks a creature created to fight in the Old War. Make your way to its location and dispatch this monster." - The Lotus on Lephantis

[61] "The Vallis lifeforms emerged like memories, as Venus herself remembered who she was. This, here, is one of the most distant, most precious remembrances – an original Orokin strain, unseen for millennia." - The Business on Red-Crested Vermink

[62] "Specimen VK-7, unlike the others, did not come from a gene record. She was found, frozen, in a sealed closet close to the environmental control station. Her unassuming tomb for millennia. Here, then, was an intact example of Orokin-era fauna." - Sigor Savah on Venari

[63] The dogs are barking again. They somehow figured out we have been stockpiling. This upsets them given how we have been tightening the leash on their contracts. The Sisters are demanding we lower our material prices or suffer retribution by some new supership they have. Obviously they do not teach economics at obedience training. - Intercepted message by Alad V during Operation Sling-Stone

[64] The Second Dream quest

[65] BLINDED SHE CAST HIM OUT

[PreludeToWar-66] Prelude to War is compilation of miniquests and cutscenes leading up to The New War.

[TheDuviriParadox-67] While not part of the main story quest, The Duviri Paradox has very interlinked story context to several critical characters in The New War. It is recommended to play The Duviri Paradox after The New War.

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+{{Quote|They were called Tenno. Warriors of blade and gun: masters of the Warframe armor. Those that survived the old war were left drifting among the ruins. Now they are needed once more.
+The Grineer, with their vast armies, are spreading throughout the solar system. A call echoes across the stars summoning the Tenno to an ancient place. They summon you.
+Allow the Lotus to guide you. She has rescued you from your cryostasis chamber and given you a chance to survive. The Grineer will find you; you must be prepared. The Lotus will teach you the ways of the Warframes and the secrets to unlocking their powers.
+Come Tenno, you must join the war.
+|[https://www.warframe.com/game Official website]}}
 While we were able to find solid and legitimate supporting evidence for essentially the whole story as it is written, this interpretation comes from a variety of sources, and each of those pieces of information was likely written by a number of different people. This article strives to be more than a simple compendium of disparate lore tidbits. We took in all of the various bits of lore information and documented them in a chronological and readable way to produce the most complete story possible.
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 ==History==
-=== Orokin Era ===
+===Orokin Era===
 [[File:106 by sbigham-dbqynav.jpg|thumb|right|An Orokin tower]]
-Long before current events, the Origin System was controlled by an imperial civilization called the [[Orokin]]. The aristocratic ruling class of this civilization was the dominant humanoid faction for an extended period — perhaps centuries or millennia. The Orokin's advanced technology and scientific research led to the discovery of the [[Void]], a parallel dimension that allowed further development of already impressive Orokin technology.<ref>"Void" Cephalon Fragment</ref> Their civilization followed suit — Orokin culture, particularly among the ruling class, evolved into a society obsessed with youth, aesthetics, and elegance.<ref>"Orokin" Cephalon [[Fragments|Fragment]]</ref><ref>Alluded in [[Corrupted Ancient]] [[Synthesis]] Imprint</ref>
+Long before current events, the Origin System was controlled by an imperial civilization called the [[Orokin]] Empire, whose capital was on [[Earth]]'s moon, now known as [[Lua]]. The aristocratic ruling class of this civilization, known as Orokin, was the dominant humanoid faction for an extended period — perhaps centuries or millennia.
+They were known for their advancements in biotechnology, leaders in gene manipulation to the degree that they created a caste of cloned workers, the [[Grineer]], that were genetically programmed to obey their Orokin masters.<ref>"Grineer" Cephalon Fragment</ref> It was also known that they were masters of merging organic material with the inorganic as seen with the [[Unum|living Orokin Towers]] or the [[Infestation]], an engineered infectious techno-organic parasite that subverts, mutates, and assimilates any biological or synthetic matter into a new infested lifeform.<ref>"Infested" and "Infestation" Cephalon Fragments</ref>
-However, the benefits of the Orokin’s advancements were not shared equally among all members of their society. The rigid hierarchy allowed a few lucky individuals to live fairly comfortably as servants, scholars, and enforcers for the Orokin elite. Though these servants were still subjected to the whims of their often cruel masters, lower classes and other humanoid groups were exploited en masse for labor and used as disposable soldiers and experiment subjects.<ref>Alluded in Arid [[Eviscerator]] Synthesis Imprint</ref><ref>Alluded in [[Lancer]] Synthesis Imprint</ref>
+The Orokin's advanced technology and scientific research led to the discovery of the [[Void]], a parallel dimension that allowed further development of already impressive Orokin technology.<ref>"Void" [[Cephalon Fragment]]</ref> Their civilization followed suit — Orokin culture, particularly among the ruling class, evolved into a society obsessed with youth, aesthetics, and elegance.<ref>"Orokin" Cephalon Fragment</ref><ref>"The Orokin had a visage imbued with variation, beauty and symmetry, but we had the Lora nodes protruding from our right temples. Their skin was silken; ours was weaved with ribbons of metallic fascia that snaked around our bodies and into the Lora Device embedded in our palms. We made them uncomfortable and they made that known; that is, until they were sick or hurt and then we were saviors." [[Corrupted Ancient]] [[Synthesis]] Imprint</ref><ref>"...everything is filthy." I was rambling. "They manufacture filth. My robes have gone from yellow to black. I'm so tired, I don't even feel Orokin anymore." - [[Guardsman]] Synthesis Imprint</ref>
+However, the benefits of the Orokin's advancements were not shared equally among all members of their society. The rigid hierarchy allowed a few lucky individuals to live fairly comfortably as servants, scholars, and enforcers for the Orokin elite. Though these servants were still subjected to the whims of their often cruel masters, lower classes and other humanoid groups were exploited en masse for labor and used as disposable soldiers and experiment subjects.<ref>Alluded in Arid [[Eviscerator]] and [[Lancer]] Synthesis imprints</ref> Families of farmers worked for their Orokin masters for generations, the Orokin exploiting their harsh manual labor to build their empire, giving little compensation of their honest work in return.<ref>"Day after day we toiled, my father, my brother Cladius, pulling grains for the Orokin takers in the city, as our kind had done for generations. We were young but the work made us old. Our backs ached, our hands bled, the sun tortured our skin. In the worst times, it felt as though death would claim us before the day was through. [...] The city. Those towers. I was struck with awe. What glorious totems of greed those Orokin had built. Built on. Our. Backs. Their wealth was my wealth. I was starved, while our masters were fat. and full. and warm." - [[Parvos Granum]] in [[Fragments/The Tenets|The Tenets]]</ref> These farmers would eventually congregate under the teachings of [[Parvos Granum]], forming the [[Corpus]] and adopting its doctrine: the belief that anyone has the right to achieve fortune regardless of their social status.<ref>"My gift to the future is an idea; an idea that wealth need not settle as a crust upon the upper echelons of the populace. No. Any poor grain farmer can, should he feed his Desire and apply his wisdom, take fortune for himself. [...] 'Ours is the grasping golden hand. We are desire. We are Corpus.'" - [[Parvos Granum]] in [[Fragments/The Tenets|The Tenets]]</ref>
 For a time, the Orokin ruled the Origin System and continued to expand. They spent a great deal of time building large outposts throughout the Origin System<ref>See [[Orb Vallis]]</ref>, developing more advanced machinery, and performing numerous genetic experiments of creatures found on Earth.<ref>"Wildlife" Cephalon Fragment</ref><ref>[[Raksa Kubrow]], [[Sunika Kubrow]], and [[Sahasa Kubrow]] Codex entries</ref>
+At some point, their rampant expansion of the Origin System came to a halt. The empire began to look to populate other star systems, particularly '''Tau''', presumably to quell their problems of overpopulation, overconsumption of resources, and pollution of the natural world<ref>"As I log this, I'm looking out the stained plastic of my field tent into the dead-yellow sky of Earth. I smell the vague sulfur and toxins leaking through the seals, yet somehow I'm going to miss this place. Leaving her feels like I'm giving up on my dream. My dream to see green and blue return to this sick and dying mother of us all." - [[Silvana]] during [[The Silver Grove]]</ref>.
 ===The [[Zariman Ten Zero]] Incident===
 [[File:Vitruvian Zariman.png|thumb|right|x200px|Zariman schematic as seen in the [[Vitruvian]]]]
 [[File:AF0F9A9D-2886-44A0-A210-C243D55356B8.jpeg|thumb|right|Zariman as seen in [[Rell (Webcomic)|Rell]] webcomic]]
-The Orokin continued experimenting with the Void. At some point, an experiment was conducted where a military ship containing a large group of people and their families was directed into the Void. The ship was lost and it was many days before the ship resurfaced. Upon searching the ship it was discovered that all the adults aboard the ship had died due to void exposure. However, for reasons unknown at the time the children of the Zariman Ten-Zero had survived and appeared completely fine. The children had survived exposure to the void but in the process had been changed. The children had developed uncontrollable void related powers that mutilated or killed anyone who came into contact with them. The Zariman children were hidden away and forgotten by the Orokin out of shame and fear. The Zariman Children became known later as the Tenno, called such for the Zariman ship's designation of Ten-Zero (Ten-0).<ref>{{WF|Ember Prime}}'s Codex entry</ref><ref>[[The War Within]] quest</ref><ref>[[Rell (Webcomic)]]</ref>
+The Orokin continued experimenting with the Void. At some point, an experiment was conducted where a military ship containing a large group of people and their families was directed into the Void in an attempt to travel to and populate the Tau System.<ref>'''Operator''': "The soft lines of a hand, my mother's, I think. We were watching the stars, awaiting the jump to Tau. She was afraid."<br>'''Lotus''': "Memories. From your time aboard the Zariman Ten Zero, before the Void-Jump accident. It was years before the ship was recovered. It was drifting dead in space, all her crew gone... except the children."<br>- Dialogue during [[The Second Dream]]</ref> The ship was lost and it was many days before the ship resurfaced.<ref>{{WF|Ember Prime}}'s Codex entry</ref>
+Due to Void exposure, the adults on the ship became crazed, hunting down the children.<ref>"The grownups are howling at the door... drowning mad in the Void ocean but you... you are at ease swimming within the depths! You remember then how the howling stopped - they had broken through." - [[Elder Queen]] during [[The War Within]]</ref> The children, however, had survived exposure to the Void, retaining their sanity, but they had changed during the process. The children developed uncontrollable Void related powers that were capable of mutilating or killing anyone who came into contact with them. In self-defense, the children killed the unhinged adults, even their own parents, being traumatized for what they did.<ref>"No crew aboard, only the children... only the parricidal monsters they had become. The endless Void, the gazing abyss, the bottomless ocean of horror... it coiled itself around your tender heart." - [[Elder Queen]] during [[The War Within]]</ref><ref>[[Rell (Webcomic)]]</ref>
+After the rediscovery of the ship, the Zariman children were deemed dangerous by the Orokin. They were hidden away<ref name=rhino_prime>{{WF|Rhino Prime}}'s Codex entry</ref> and forgotten out of shame and fear, being known as "Void demons". The Zariman children became known later as the [[Tenno]], called such for the Zariman ship's designation of Ten-Zero (Ten-0).<ref>'''Lotus''': "It was here Margulis put you into the dream, tried to heal you... tried to give you the strength to tame the Void within you. In a way, this is where you, where all Tenno, were born."<br>'''Operator''': "But we weren't born here, were we?"<br>'''Lotus''': "No. When the Zaraman was found adrift, the Orokin did everything they could to erase their mistakes. Transit recordings, personnel logs... everything was wiped out. The only thing they kept was... you."<br>- Dialogue during [[The War Within]]</ref>
 ===Margulis, the Zariman Children, and Ballas===
-Margulis was an Archimedian, a human of great intellect, and a prominent geneticist. Margulis discovered the Tenno and feeling compassion adopted them as her own. She sought out a means for the Tenno to control their powers and interact with the world normally. Margulis received some opposition for her work and was advised by her lover, the Orokin Executor [[Ballas]], to cease her research and forget the Tenno. She refused and continued her research. Eventually, Margulis imposed "gates" on the Tenno's powers which helped bring their uncontrollable void powers under some control, but this was not before an incident where she was maimed by the same void powers which left her blind.<ref name="second_dream">[[The Second Dream]] quest</ref>
+[[Margulis]] was an Archimedian, a human of great intellect, and a prominent geneticist. Margulis discovered the Tenno and adopted them as her own, empathizing with their suffering. She sought out a means for the Tenno to control their powers and interact with the world normally.<ref>"You were so brave - but the Orokin were afraid of you. The Void had changed you and you couldn't control it, no one could. They were about to destroy the orphans of Ten-Zero but Margulis... she loved you, she found a way..." - Lotus during [[The Second Dream]]</ref> Margulis received some opposition for her work and was advised by her secret lover, the Orokin Executor [[Ballas]], to cease her research and forget the Tenno. She refused and continued her research. Eventually, Margulis imposed [[Reservoir|"gates"]] on the Tenno's powers which helped bring their uncontrollable Void powers under some control, but this was not before an incident where she was maimed by the same Void powers which left her blind.<ref>"We couldn't help it, the outbursts. We hurt her, blinded her, but even then, she never abandoned us. In the dream we found peace, and she sang to us in that cold, dark..." - [[Operator]] during [[The Second Dream]]</ref>
-Margulis' research eventually led her to work with an Archimedian specializing in [[Infestation]] manipulation named [[Silvana]]. Together they intended to develop a substitute body for the Tenno and allow them to move freely and interact with the world. However, while the research was a partial success at the time, Margulis came at odds with the Orokin and it was demanded that she recant before the Seven. Despite Ballas' pleas that she recant, Margulis continued to refuse and asked Ballas to save her. Ballas either would not or could not save Margulis and as a result, she was executed using the [[Jade Light]] for refusing to recant. Ballas was filled with grief and came to realize that he wanted Margulis back. Ballas was left angry at Margulis' execution and began planning to overthrow the Orokin.<ref>[[The Silver Grove]] quest</ref><ref name="second_dream" />
+Margulis' research eventually led her to work with an Archimedian specializing in [[Infestation]] manipulation named [[Silvana]].<ref>[[The Silver Grove]] quest</ref> Together they intended to develop a substitute body for the Tenno and allow them to move freely and interact with the world. However, while the research was a partial success at the time, Margulis came at odds with the Orokin, refusing to develop war machines that exploited the children's powers. It was demanded that she recant before The Seven, members of the judicial branch of the empire. Despite Ballas' pleas that she recant, Margulis continued to refuse and asked Ballas to save her. Ballas either would not or could not save Margulis and as a result, she was executed using the [[Jade Light]].<ref>'''Ballas''': "I told you not to speak out. If you recant, maybe-"<br>'''Margulis''': "-You lied to me, Ballas. You're no different than the rest of them."<br>'''Ballas''': "Margulis... please... forgive me. [...] Honored Seven, we have gathered here today to carry out the sentencing of Archimedian Margulis... You face the Jade Light, recant, and we will grant a merciful death." - Dialogue during [[Apostasy Prologue]]</ref> Ballas was filled with grief and realized that he wanted Margulis back. Heartbroken at Margulis' execution, Ballas began planning to overthrow the Orokin.<ref>"Yet you couldn't understand why I'd give my secrets to our enemy. How could I betray my own kind? But you have never had to sacrifice your love for faith. Imagine. To live, forever, with only one memory: seeing the one you love, die." - Ballas during [[The Sacrifice]]</ref>
 ===The Birth of the Sentients===
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-These original creations could adapt to any kind of damage and reproduced by fission while developing resistance to whatever had harmed them. They could also use any materials surrounding them to repair themselves. The Sentients were perfect to enter the hostile terrain of Tau and begin the terraforming process, but there was a risk that these new lifeforms could pose a serious threat to the Orokin, with their adaptability and reproductive capability making them nigh unbeatable. The Archimedian who proposed the technology said that there was a "flaw" in their design; the Void was poisonous to them and so they would not be a danger to the Orokin should something go wrong. The Sentients in Tau evolved and grew. Realizing that their Orokin creators would only bring ruin to Tau eventually as well, they rebelled. Exposure to the Void which they needed to travel through to return to the Origin System did not kill the Sentients but merely rendered them sterile, unable to reproduce. Hence, they could return to the Origin System for this price. The Sentients under [[Hunhow]] (a leader or parent to the Sentients) began an invasion of the Origin System. Thus what would become known as The Old War began.
+These original creations could adapt to any kind of damage and reproduced by [[wikipedia:Fission (biology)|fission]] while developing resistance to whatever had harmed them. They could also use any materials surrounding them to repair themselves. The Sentients were perfect to enter the hostile terrain of Tau and begin the terraforming process, but there was a risk that these new lifeforms could pose a serious threat to the Orokin, with their adaptability and reproductive capability making them nigh unbeatable. The Archimedian who proposed the technology said that there was a "flaw" in their design; the Void was poisonous to them and so they would not be a danger to the Orokin should something go wrong.
+The Sentients in Tau evolved and grew, eventually gaining sentience.<ref>"My father was a farmer. My mother, a carpenter. Given light by the Golden Lords, to build for them... a better world. But my family's journey was long. Time began to change their light. Creativity. Pride. A will to live." - Natah during [[Ropalolyst]] boss fight</ref> Realizing that their Orokin creators would only bring ruin to Tau eventually as well, they rebelled.<ref>"What led us here? You did. You vile blasphemies. Machines... thinking... breeding... You were to bear us a new, promised land. But when you arrived at that distant world... you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well. As we had to Earth. And so it was... we came to war." - Ballas during [[The Sacrifice]]</ref> Exposure to the Void, which they needed to travel through to return to the Origin System, did not kill the Sentients but merely rendered them sterile, unable to reproduce.<ref name="Hunhow">"We crossed the gap, wombs in ruin, to bring an end to this. We severed the worlds, let them destroy me, why is the sequence not complete?" - [[Hunhow]] during [[Natah]]</ref><ref>'''Lotus''': "All missions to the Origin System required a sacrifice. Me and my kind become barren when crossing the gap. It is the one flaw that we never overcame. Hence, they could return to the Origin System for this price."<br>'''Teshin''': "Natah wanted children of her own."<br>- Dialogue during [[Natah]]</ref> The Sentients under their leader [[Hunhow]] would start an invasion on the Origin System, thus what would become known as The Old War began.
 ===The Old War===
 [[File:IMG 0348.PNG|thumb|right|x150px|Excalibur Prime fighting a Sentient fighter on Lua]]
-From this point, the Old War erupted between the Orokin and the Sentients. With their ability to subvert high levels of technology, the Sentient quickly overwhelmed the Orokin. The Orokin quickly discovered that their method of fighting proved ineffective against the faction.<ref>{{WF|Excalibur Prime}} Codex entry</ref>
+From this point, The Old War erupted between the Orokin and the Sentients. With their ability to subvert high levels of technology, the Sentient quickly overwhelmed the Orokin.<ref>"Orokin Outer Terminus positions have fallen to the Sentient Armada. Our orders: Behead the fleet. My Crew: Sukhin, Krodhi, Zada. There are none finer. We are... Family. We will stop this war in its tracks. We are... the Orokin Empire's best hope. We were." - [[Cephalon Cy]] during [[Rising Tide]]</ref> There were attempts to militarize their [[Grineer]] slaves<ref>[[Lancer]] Synthesis imprint</ref> which also failed as a countermeasure. The Orokin quickly discovered that their method of fighting proved ineffective against the faction.<ref>{{WF|Excalibur Prime}} Codex entry</ref>
+The Corpus faction grew to the point where they were in the business of war-profiteering, developing and selling technology for the war effort. As such, the Orokin were aware of the Corpus existence, calling them "Industrialists" and a "merchant cult", and monitored their movements, due to their potential influence over the Orokin System.<ref>"Lust was my sin. But greed is the blight that weakens our steel. These industrialists have gorged on the harvest of our long war. Their mind drones; Their mechanizations, toil in foundries remote. For what purpose? We must set watch upon them. Baiting our snares with the worms of profit." - [[Ballas]] during {{WF|Vauban Prime}} trailer</ref><ref>"Corpus" Cephalon Fragment</ref>
-Faced with losing the war and with their technology useless, the Orokin needed to create something new with that could adapt to fight the Sentients. To this end, the Orokin began working to develop the Infestation, an engineered infectious organism that subverts, mutates, and assimilates any biological matter into a new infested lifeform.<ref>"Infested" and "Infestation" Cephalon Fragments</ref>
+===Development of Warframes===
-At some point, Ballas began researching new uses for the Infestation by experimenting on willing and unwilling subjects drawn from Orokin warriors and other castes. Ultimately, this research led to the creation of Warframes — human subjects mutated through a specially engineered strain of the Infestation called [[Helminth]].<ref>[[The Sacrifice]] quest</ref> However, while the new Warframes were powerful and initially did well against the Sentients, they retained some remnants of their former consciousness. The echoes of their lost selves manifested as intense rage and despair, making them unpredictable and just as likely to turn against their Orokin masters.<ref>Alluded in {{WF|Rhino Prime}} Codex entry</ref>
+Faced with losing the war and with their technology useless, the Orokin needed to create something new with that could adapt to fight the Sentients. In desperation, the Orokin was forced to unearth their forbidden knowledge of the Infestation that once destroyed their colonies in the past due to an uncontrolled outbreak.<ref>"Our hubris shone like a black star... for our technology, our war-machines were your kin. How easily you turned them against us. We were forced to older means. Not circuits, nor light... but flesh and disease. Our horrors past, our ravaged outer colonies... became gardens!" - Ballas during [[The Sacrifice]]</ref>
+At some point, Ballas began researching new uses for the Infestation by experimenting on willing and unwilling subjects drawn from [[Dax|Orokin warriors]] and other castes. Ultimately, this research led to the creation of Warframes — human subjects mutated through a specially engineered strain of the Infestation called [[Helminth]].<ref name="sacrifice">[[The Sacrifice]] quest</ref> However, while the new Warframes were powerful and initially did well against the Sentients, they retained some remnants of their former consciousness. The echoes of their lost selves manifested as intense rage and despair, making them unpredictable and just as likely to turn against their Orokin masters.<ref>Alluded in {{WF|Rhino Prime}} Codex entry</ref>
-The Orokin came to realize that the Warframes alone were as uncontrollable as the Sentients, but realized that, through Transference technology (the process developed by Margulis and Silvana for the Tenno), another mind could take control of a Warframe. As only the Zariman children were capable of carrying out Transference safely, they became the new "operators" of the Warframes.
+The Orokin came to the conclusion that the Warframes alone were as uncontrollable as the Sentients, but realized that, through Transference technology, the process developed by Margulis and Silvana for the Tenno, another mind could take control of a Warframe. As only the Zariman children were capable of carrying out Transference safely, being able to empathize with the Warframe's traumatic experiences, they were able to become the new "operators" of the Warframes, a distant mind synchronized with a surrogate body.<ref name="sacrifice" />
-The Zariman children were trained into the fighting force known as the '''Tenno''', and through Transference, they wielded Warframes to wage war against the Sentients, where they proved to be highly effective. Abiding by combat disciplines taught by the newly founded Tenno [[Focus]] Schools, Tenno-operated Warframes were equipped with melee and ballistic weapons to circumvent the Sentient interference of high-tech weaponry.<ref>"Warframes", "Warframe Technology", "Archaic Weapons" Cephalon Fragments</ref> With the help of the Tenno, the Orokin managed to recapture the Outer Terminus and quelled the Sentient threat to the Origin System.<ref>[[Stalker]]/[[Shadow Stalker]] Codex entry</ref> The Sentient, however, were not defeated entirely, having deployed the [[Mimic]] agent [[Natah]] to infiltrate and bring down the Orokin in a final coup.<ref name="ropalolyst">[[Natah]]'s transmissions during the [[Ropalolyst]] boss fight</ref>
+The Zariman children were trained into the fighting force known as the '''Tenno''', serving their Orokin masters but bounded by honor. Through Transference, they wielded Warframes to wage war against the Sentients, proving to be highly effective. Abiding by combat disciplines taught by the newly founded Tenno [[Focus]] Schools, Tenno-operated Warframes were equipped with melee and ballistic weapons to circumvent the Sentient interference of high-tech weaponry.<ref>"Warframes", "Warframe Technology", "Archaic Weapons" Cephalon Fragments</ref> With the help of the Tenno, the Orokin managed to turn the tide of war, leaving the Sentients helpless against the combination of archaic combat techniques and Void powers employed by the Tenno, that is until Ballas defected.
 ===Ballas' Rebellion and Allying With Hunhow===
+{{UpdateMe|Unclear about the order of events with new info from [[Ropalolyst]] dialogue and [[Erra (Quest)]]. In particular, when did the Orokin reprogram Natah, when did Hunhow 'die', and when did the Tenno turn on their Orokin masters? Was it under Lotus' command that the Tenno killed off the Orokin if the Orokin were the ones who reprogrammed Natah?}}
-Ballas, with the intention of destroying the Orokin Empire, began to conspire with Hunhow. Ballas revealed to Hunhow the secret weakness of the hitherto unstoppable Warframes — the Tenno operators themselves. The Tenno, sequestered in a semi-conscious Transference state in the Reservoir on Lua, would be unable to protect themselves. Natah, Hunhow's daughter, was a last-ditch attempt to take control over the Tenno themselves. She infiltrated the Origin System but was not able to prevent the Orokin forces from recapturing and crippling/destroying the Outer Terminus. The Orokin were victorious at the time, successfully driven out the remaining Sentient forces, but for some unknown reason, the Tenno betrayed the Orokin, killing most of the Executors and members of the Council<ref name="guardsman">Alluded in the [[Guardsman]] Synthesis imprint</ref>. This triggered a historical event known as The Collapse which led to the fall of the Orokin empire.<ref>Alluded in the [[Stalker]]'s [[codex]]</ref>
+Ballas, with the intention of destroying the Orokin Empire, began to conspire with Hunhow. In a series of [[Vitruvian]] recordings, Ballas revealed to Hunhow the secret weakness of the hitherto unstoppable Warframes — the Tenno operators themselves. The Tenno, sequestered in a semi-conscious Transference state in the [[Reservoir]] on Lua, would be unable to protect themselves without their surrogate Warframes. Hence, Natah, Hunhow's daughter, was born as last-ditch attempt to destroy the Tenno. Being a unique breed of [[Mimic]] Sentients, she is able to visually morph into whatever form she likes.<ref>"So the Golden Wrath came. And after, I was born. A mimic, a spy. Conceived to burrow into nests and swallow the pitch-eggs of their war machine: The Tenno." - Natah during [[Ropalolyst]] boss fight</ref> So she mimicked Margulis' appearance<ref>"Great Sentient Queen, forgive me, but what you are, what you've made of yourself... is merely drawn from the dreams of these divine children. You are not she, you are not... Margulis." - [[Palladino]] during [[Chains of Harrow]]</ref>, allowing her to serve as a spy and infiltrate the Orokin backlines.
+According to the Sentients' master plan, their leader Hunhow was left to be slain in a final battle over the waters of [[Uranus]]<ref name="Hunhow" />, marking the Orokin supposed victory at the time. As high-ranking Orokin gathered to celebrate their 'victory' against the Sentients in the Outer Terminus of [[Pluto]], the Tenno betrayed them, in retaliation for executing Margulis<ref>"She put us into the dream, brought us peace. I remember we could still hear her voice, raging at the leaders for their mistreatment of us. When they executed her... well... I could not let that go." - [[Operator]] during [[The Second Dream]]</ref>, killing most of the Executors and members of the Council<ref name="guardsman">Alluded in the [[Guardsman]] Synthesis imprint</ref>. This triggered a historical event known as The Collapse which led to the fall of the Orokin Empire.<ref name="stalker">[[Stalker]]/[[Shadow Stalker]] Codex entry</ref><ref>"The Collapse" Codex entry</ref>
-===End of The Old War===
+===The Collapse===
 [[File:Photo-4.png|thumb|right|The Lotus]]
-With the Old War over, Natah's final goal was to finally destroy the Tenno. However, due to an unknown Orokin interference, she was reprogrammed to develop feelings for them, exploiting a "gap" in her systems from crossing through the Void. After abandoning her final objective, wearing her now-iconic Lotus helmet, Natah took on the role of the Lotus, mother, and guide to the Tenno<ref name="ropalolyst" />, residing in an isolated chamber on [[Earth]]'s moon, Lua.<ref>[[Apostasy Prologue]] quest</ref> To protect the Tenno from the Sentients, she sent the [[Lua|moon]], which also housed the Reservoirs, into the Void, masking its location with some sort of cloaking technology.<ref name="second_dream" /> The Lotus commanded most Warframes around the Origin System to be put into cryosleep to preserve their bodies and the Tenno's memories.
+With the Orokin leaders dead or missing, Natah's final goal was to finally destroy the Tenno. However, she was caught by the Orokin and was reprogrammed to develop feelings for them, exploiting a "gap" in her systems from crossing through the Void.<ref>"Natah was the daughter until I destroyed her. Now I am the Lotus. Now I am the mother." - Lotus during [[Natah]]</ref><ref>"But when I saw your tender faces, I took mercy. Or so we were told. But in truth, we were both imprisoned in Lua's belly. My light remade by the Creators. I became a memory, a ghost. Reprogrammed to destroy my family, my people, my history." - Natah during [[Ropalolyst]] boss fight</ref><ref name="Erra">'''Erra''': "Look at what they've made of you! You're a God. You're a Queen! But somehow the bees have you as a hostage. Do you even recognize me anymore?"<br>'''Lotus''': "I recognize the enemy."<br>'''Erra''': "No... sister. It's me. Erra—The Makers caught you. Unraveled your mind. They're using you to kill us! 'The Queen of the Aphids' with her Eye in the Void. But I don't blame you... I blame... them! You believe these are your children... But I'm the only family you've got left! So choose! Our family, our people... or these parasites. Choose Natah! Choose!"<br>'''Lotus''': "I am not... 'Natah'... I am... THE LOTUS."<br>—Dialogue during [[Erra (Quest)]]</ref><ref>The Lotus helmet could be the source of this interference, alluded to when Ballas disconnected Lotus from her helmet during [[Apostasy Prologue]]</ref> Natah's identity was subverted as a result, becoming the [[Lotus]], human mother and guide to the Tenno.
+As such, she did not kill the Tenno<ref>'''Lotus''': "There are gaps. I had my mission and I completed it. All but the last sequence."<br>'''Teshin''': "To destroy the Tenno."<br>-Dialogue during [[Natah]]</ref> and used them against her Sentient brethren instead.<ref name="Erra" /> The Orokin imprisoned the Lotus in an isolated chamber on Lua where she commanded the Tenno forces.<ref>[[Apostasy Prologue]] quest</ref> Abandoning her final objective, she sent the moon, which also housed the Reservoirs, into the Void, masking its location with some sort of cloaking technology to protect the Tenno from any remnant Sentients.<ref>"Hunhow's found it. The Reservoir, hidden in the Void, a place Sentients can never reach. We must do everything to keep it there. It's the only way to keep the Tenno's power alive." - [[Lotus]] during [[The Second Dream]]</ref> After fending off against what was left of the Sentient forces in the system, the Lotus commanded most Warframes around the Origin System to be put into cryosleep to preserve their bodies and the Tenno's memories, effectively ending The Old War. Some Warframes still roam about, with the occasional mission to hunt down remaining Orokin leaders as seen with {{WF|Grendel}}.<ref>{{WF|Grendel}}'s [[Leverian]] entry</ref>
+Without centralized power, groups of people who were once oppressed were now free from the empire's shackles. In a state of anarchy, the Origin System saw conflict between many factions to claim domination over the territory and resources once controlled by the Orokin. There were attempts to rebuild the collapsed empire<ref name="arid_eviscerator">Arid [[Eviscerator]] Synthesis imprint</ref>, but these plans were squandered by descent groups that would eventually evolve into the [[Grineer]] and [[Corpus]] factions we know today.
+The Grineer took advantage of the chaos to initiate revolts all across the system.<ref name="guardsman" /> They stole Orokin ships<ref name="arid_eviscerator" />, weapons, and managed to secure the cloning technologies that created them. During this period, the outcast [[Grineer Queens|Orokin Twins]] used this opportunity to enact revenge and began to amass armies of loyal Grineer to their cause, which eventually led to their joint ruling of the Grineer.<ref>[[Kuria]] poem</ref>
-===Post-Collapse===
-The Grineer, who were cloned workers for and slaves to the Orokin<ref>"Grineer" Cephalon Fragment</ref><ref name="guardsman" />, took advantage of the chaos to initiate revolts all across the system. They stole Orokin ships, weapons, and managed to secure the cloning technologies that created them. During this period, the outcast [[Grineer Queens|Orokin Twins]] used this opportunity to enact revenge and began to amass armies of loyal Grineer to their cause, which eventually led to their joint ruling of the Grineer.<ref>[[Kuria]] poem</ref>
-It is unknown what the exact origins of the [[Corpus]] are; whether they were initially lowly Orokin servants or Orokin-worshipping colonists is still a mystery. It is likely that the Corpus originated from the "Industrialists" who profited from the Old War and grew into a force that Ballas deemed worth of monitoring.<ref>"Corpus" Cephalon Fragment</ref> They eventually made a grab for the system shortly after the Grineer rose to power, quickly occupying wrecks and crash sites on various planets to scavenge the technology and grow.<ref>Alluded in the [[Anti MOA]] Synthesis imprint</ref> The two factions eventually grew in strength and became equals. While the Corpus began to trade technology with the Grineer in exchange for raw materials and currency, the two groups continued to compete and skirmish intermittently, with planetary [[invasion]]s occurring to this day.
+The Corpus, in the name of profit, eventually made a grab for the system shortly after the Grineer rose to power, quickly occupying wrecks and crash sites on various planets to scavenge Orokin technology and grow.<ref name="anti_moa">[[Anti MOA]] Synthesis imprint</ref> The two factions eventually grew in strength and became equals. While the Corpus began to trade technology with the Grineer in exchange for raw materials and currency<ref>"Using a single unified currency helps reduce many problems that arise when making complex trades -- such as Grineer bidding on Corpus weaponry or Corpus purchasing raw materials en masse from various mining colonies." - [[Cephalon Cordylon]] Entry 15</ref>, the two groups continued to compete and skirmish intermittently<ref name="anti_moa" />, with planetary [[invasion]]s occurring to this day.
-With the collapse of the Orokin empire, the Infestation was left uncontrolled in isolated Orokin ships to spread freely across the Origin System.<ref>"Derelict" Cephalon Fragment</ref> The extent of their reach is unknown, but their presence was not insignificant.
+With the collapse of the Orokin empire, the Infestation was left uncontrolled in isolated Orokin ships to spread freely across the Origin System with the occasional outbreaks.<ref>"Derelict" Cephalon Fragment</ref> The extent of their reach is unknown, but their presence was not insignificant.<ref>[[Corrupted Ancient]] Synthesis imprint</ref>
 ===Current Warframe Era===
-Some indeterminate number of millennia later<ref>"Deep within this millennia-old Orokin-turned-Infested ship lurks a creature created to fight in the Old War. Make your way to its location and dispatch this monster." - The Lotus on [[Lephantis]]</ref><ref>"The Vallis lifeforms emerged like memories, as Venus herself remembered who she was. This, here, is one of the most distant, most precious remembrances – an original Orokin strain, unseen for millennia." - [[The Business]] on Red-Crested Vermink</ref><ref>"Specimen VK-7, unlike the others, did not come from a gene record. She was found, frozen, in a sealed closet close to the environmental control station. Her unassuming tomb for millennia. Here, then, was an intact example of Orokin-era fauna." - [[Sigor Savah]] on [[Venari]]</ref>, the Corpus are widely considered the governing force in economics and research. The Grineer both fight with the Corpus for power and buy technology from them to support their constantly degrading bodies. At one time, the Infested had all but conquered a few of the Origin System's planets but have been pushed back to their residence on drifting ancient [[Orokin Derelict]]s and recently conquered [[Eris]], apart from the occasional outbreak on populated planets.{{Cite}} All that is left of the Orokin are the terraforming efforts done by them such as on the [[Orb Vallis]] in [[Venus]] and the few still active structures such as the Orokin Tower, [[Unum]], on the Plains of Eidolon, forgotten [[Prime]] weapons they built, and tower ships stranded in the [[Orokin Void|Void]].
+Some indeterminate number of millennia later<ref>"Deep within this millennia-old Orokin-turned-Infested ship lurks a creature created to fight in the Old War. Make your way to its location and dispatch this monster." - The Lotus on [[Lephantis]]</ref><ref>"The Vallis lifeforms emerged like memories, as Venus herself remembered who she was. This, here, is one of the most distant, most precious remembrances – an original Orokin strain, unseen for millennia." - [[The Business]] on Red-Crested Vermink</ref><ref>"Specimen VK-7, unlike the others, did not come from a gene record. She was found, frozen, in a sealed closet close to the environmental control station. Her unassuming tomb for millennia. Here, then, was an intact example of Orokin-era fauna." - [[Sigor Savah]] on [[Venari]]</ref>, the Corpus are widely considered the governing force in economics and research, with the Grineer dominating the system with their military might and brutality. The Grineer both fight with the Corpus for power and buy manufacturing supplies to support their military development.<ref>The dogs are barking again. They somehow figured out we have been stockpiling. This upsets them given how we have been tightening the leash on their contracts. The Sisters are demanding we lower our material prices or suffer retribution by some new supership they have. Obviously they do not teach economics at obedience training. - Intercepted message by Alad V during [[Operation Sling-Stone]]</ref> At one time, the Infested had all but conquered a few of the Origin System's planets but have been pushed back to their residence on drifting ancient [[Orokin Derelict]]s and recently conquered [[Eris]], apart from the occasional outbreak on populated planets.{{Cite}} All that is left of the Orokin are their terraforming efforts such as on the [[Orb Vallis]], [[Venus]], the few standing structures such as the Orokin Tower [[Unum]], forgotten [[Prime]] weapons they built, and Tower ships stranded in the [[Orokin Void|Void]].
-The Tenno are being reawakened by the Lotus, not remembering anything of their past. Many Tenno awake from cryosleep already connected to a Warframe that the Lotus informs them how to use, unaware of their true nature. They are then set loose upon the solar system either alone or in small squads to tackle a wide variety of missions designated by the Lotus to maintain a balance between the Grineer and Corpus factions or to quell Infested uprisings.
+The Tenno are being reawakened by the Lotus, not remembering anything of their past. These Tenno awake from cryosleep already connected to a Warframe that the Lotus informs them how to use, unaware of their true nature. They are then set loose upon the Origin System, either alone or in small squads to tackle a wide variety of missions designated by the Lotus to maintain a balance between the Grineer and Corpus factions or to quell Infested uprisings.
-The Corpus now exist as money-worshiping corporations with workers worshiping the very idea of a profit. Individuals like [[Nef Anyo]] act as religious leaders for the normal Corpus worker. The Corpus has begun to make an attempt at rebuilding the Outer Terminus. In the meantime, the Grineer research ways to overcome their [[Cloning Decay Syndrome|genetic degradation]] caused by many generations of repeated cloning. At one point, Grineer researcher [[Tyl Regor]] finds and breaks open a tomb where an ancient Sentient was held within, unknowingly reawakening an old enemy of the Origin System.<ref name="second_dream" />
+The Corpus now exist as money-worshiping corporations with workers worshiping the very idea of a profit. Individuals like [[Nef Anyo]] act as religious leaders for the normal Corpus worker. In the meantime, the Grineer research ways to overcome their [[Cloning Decay Syndrome|genetic degradation]] caused by many generations of repeated cloning. At one point, Grineer researcher [[Tyl Regor]] finds and breaks open a tomb on Uranus where an ancient Sentient was held within, unknowingly reawakening an old enemy of the Origin System.<ref>[[The Second Dream]] quest</ref>
-[[Syndicate]] factions also developed with their own idealogy on the fate of the Origin System amidst the glaring conflict between [[Grineer]] and [[Corpus]] empires from seeking the restoration of the humanity on Earth to purging everyone to restore peace to the system.
+[[Syndicate]] factions also emerged, each with their own idealogy on the fate of the Origin System amidst the glaring conflict between [[Grineer]] and [[Corpus]] empires from [[New Loka|seeking the restoration of humanity on Earth]] to [[Red Veil|a system-wide purge to restore peace]].
 ==Main Story==

Main Story Quests Edit
Tenno Awakening	Awakening • Vor's Prize • Saya's Vigil • Vox Solaris • Once Awake • Heart of Deimos • The Archwing • Natah
This Is What You Are	The Second Dream • Rising Tide • The War Within • Chains of Harrow • Apostasy Prologue • The Sacrifice
The New War	Prelude to War (Chimera Prologue • Erra • The Maker)^[1] • The New War (The Duviri Paradox)^[2]
Indifference Awoken	Angels of the Zariman • Whispers in the Walls
Side Quests
Warframe Quests	Hidden Messages ( Mirage) • The Limbo Theorem ( Limbo) • Patient Zero ( Mesa) • The New Strange ( Chroma, Khora) • The Jordas Precept ( Atlas) • Sands of Inaros ( Inaros) • The Silver Grove ( Titania) • The Glast Gambit ( Nidus) • Octavia's Anthem ( Octavia) • Chains of Harrow ( Harrow) • Saya's Vigil ( Gara) • Mask of the Revenant ( Revenant) • The Sacrifice ( Excalibur Umbra) • Vox Solaris ( Garuda, Baruuk, Hildryn) • Chimera Prologue ( Wisp) • The Deadlock Protocol ( Protea) • Call of the Tempestarii ( Sevagoth) • The Waverider ( Yareli) • Heart of Deimos ( Xaku, Lavos, Citrine) • The New War ( Caliban) • Angels of the Zariman ( Gyre) • Veilbreaker ( Styanax) • The Duviri Paradox ( Kullervo) • Whispers in the Walls ( Qorvex)
Syndicate Unlock Quests	Saya's Vigil ( Ostron) • Vox Solaris ( Solaris United, Ventkids) • Heart of Deimos ( Entrati) • The War Within ( The Quills, Vox Solaris, Necraloid) • Angels of the Zariman ( The Holdfasts) • Whispers in the Walls ( Cavia)
Location Unlock Quests	The Duviri Paradox (Duviri, Dormizone) • Saya's Vigil (Plains of Eidolon) • Vox Solaris (Fortuna) • Heart of Deimos (Cambion Drift) • The Archwing (Empyrean Proximas) • The Second Dream (Lua) • The War Within (Kuva Fortress) • Chains of Harrow (Iron Wake) • The New War (Drifter's Camp) • Angels of the Zariman (Zariman Ten Zero, Dormizone) • Whispers in the Walls (Albrecht's Laboratories)
Feature Unlock Quests	The Duviri Paradox (Drifter, The Circuit, Duviri Incarnons) • Howl of the Kubrow (Incubator Segment) • The Archwing (Archwing) • Stolen Dreams (Maroo Weekly Ayatan Hunt) • The New Strange (Sanctuary Onslaught) • Vox Solaris (K-Drive) • Heart of Deimos (Necramech, Helminth Segment) • A Man of Few Words (Clem Weekly Mission) • The Second Dream (Operator, Focus) • Rising Tide (Railjack) • The War Within (Kuva Lich) • Call of the Tempestarii (Sisters of Parvos) • Angels of the Zariman (Zariman Incarnons) • Veilbreaker (Break Narmer, Archon Hunt, Archon Shard) • Whispers in the Walls (Arcane Dissolution, Melee Upgrade Segment, Entrati Incarnons, Netracell, Deep Archimedia)
Story and History