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[[WMG:All Warframes are just advanced [[VideoGame/{{Crysis}} Nanosuits]].

With the revelation that [[spoiler:Lotus is a rogue Sentient]], the nature of her "mission" is obvious. If the "last sequence" she refused to perform was [[spoiler:to destroy the Tenno]], the first stages of it were clearly to [[spoiler:subvert the Tenno and use them to destroy their masters, as recounted in the Stalker's testimony]]. The Tenno were invincible in battle and defeated the Sentient invasion (despite taking casualties such as Mirage) so [[spoiler:the only way the Sentients could win was to subvert them. Lotus was meant to destroy them after using them to destroy the Orokin, making their victory complete, but she refused, preferring to keep them for herself as her children.]]

[[WMG:All Warframes are just advanced [[VideoGame/{{Crysis}} Nanosuits]].]]

Look at the orange glow of the dematerialising Capture targets and tell me that isn't a Composer in action.

[[WMG: The mysteryous entity at the end of The War Within will be the focus of the next Storyline quest]]

[[WMG: Hunhow will bring back the Sentients in full force after Apostasy:Prologue]]
Despite her treason, Natah/Lotus remains his daughter and he was not pleased with the thought of brainwashing her to make her loyal again during the Natah quest. When he finds out Lotus was "kidnapped" by Ballas himself, he will see it as both the way to finish what he started during the Old War ''and'' act like any parent who lost a child. Whoever gets in the way is irrelevant.

There's a reason he's so hung up on the Tenno turning on the Orokin but not the Grineer finishing the job - he was a loyal operative. His codex entry implies that he was separate from the Tenno during the celebration that turned into a massacre, and he realized that the Tenno were up to something but lost his nerve, preventing him from warning his masters before it was too late. He may have also been a plant on the Zariman. Either way, he's ''pissed'' that the Tenno killed his superiors, who he likely was basically brainwashed into being loyal to.

* The 'Sacrifice' may be [[spoiler: a loss of something to keep the Man in the Wall at bay. Or losing body parts, a la VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX ]]

* The 'Sacrifice' may be [[spoiler: a loss of something to keep the Man in the Wall at bay. Or losing body parts, a la VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX

* The 'Sacrifice' may be [[spoiler: a loss of something to keep the Man in the Wall at bay. Or losing body parts, a la [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX]]

* The 'Sacrifice' may be [[spoiler: a loss of something to keep the Man in the Wall at bay. Or losing body parts, a la [[Xenoblade Chronicles X| VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX]]

* The 'Sacrifice' may be [[spoiler: a loss of something to keep the Man in the Wall at bay. Or losing body parts, a la XenobladeChroniclesX]]

* Unlikely, since Plains of Eidolon will add Operator Armor that you will have to craft, it'll be pointless to waste such a feature.

As Ballas says, "their life... For yours. [[spoiler: However, you give up your body, or your morality as the titular Sacrifice. Perhaps it will be the only way to prevent the Man in the Wall from taking over?]]

The leaders of the Arbiters always appear together in transmissions, [[spoiler: where, if you notice, their heads sway in unison, while in Rathuum, they will demand you to bring the location of the defectors to ME (the leader), implying that they possess a single mind.]]

[[WMG: The Arbiters of Hexis [[spoiler: are a HiveMind]].]]

* Additionally, they may have something to do with Umbra Warframes

*** Maybe Frames weren't brain dead to begin with, but ended up that way due to years/decades/centuries of being unused? [[spoiler: Originally they were intended to be companions to the Zariman children, working in tandem as a team.]] But after they were frozen for an untold amount of time, all the frames that were still alive at the moment just sat there, maybe guarding them, maybe doing something on their own. But inevitably, all of them went senile, and lost their minds and memories, with only instincts remaining intact.

Grineer: Krogan from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and {{Starcraft}} Marines.

Corpus: Maybe the Protoss from {{Starcraft}}.

[[WMG: The Sentients were [[VideoGame/{{Homeworld}} Hiigarans]] or VideoGame/{{X-COM}}.]]

*** Maybe Frames weren't brain dead to begin with, but ended up that way due to years/decades/centuries of being unused? [[spoiler: Originally they were intended to be companions to the Zariman children,]] but after they were frozen for an untold amount of time, all the frames that were still alive at the moment just sat there, maybe guarding them, maybe doing something on their own. But inevitably, all of them went senile, and lost their minds and memories, with only instincts remaining intact.

** The only problem I see with this theory are the Quest Frames, such as Limbo or Inaros. I can't really see how to fit them into this theory.

* This is a beautiful theory, and definitely explains some things that would otherwise seem contradictory. In the War Within, the Lotus talks about how all traces of [[spoiler: the Zariman children]] except for their physical presence was erased, yet somehow she knows enough to answer some of their questions, including some of the revelations that Teshin gives in the War Within. Since the Lotus is [[spoiler: a Sentient A.I.]] there's no other way she could have known this information, since without digital records, the information does not exist to her.

[[WMG:[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} zero]] is a Warframe.]]
Do i even need to explain this one? Zero not only look similar, his illusion power is similar to some of the 'lower key' things a Warframe can pull off and he comes stock standard with a sword just like all the other Warframes (save the ones that go for hammers, but I digress).
** Jumping off of this, the Corpus are either the distant past or distant future of Hyperion. Both factions use robot weapons platforms in conjunction with squishier cybernetically-enhanced humans and flying support units that can create shields.

each enemy that you take out by the dozen is based on a popular game series.

Grineer : Krogan from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and {{Starcraft}} Marines.

[[WMG:All the leader speak {{Simlish}} due to them being the most genetically degrated.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed by 'The Second Dream'. The Tenno were Orokin children who were the only survivors of a ship that was lost in the Void.]]

[[WMG: The real identity of the Stalker is Zer0 from VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}.]]
After coming into contact with the Eridians, he gains supernatural powers, granting him the ability to teleport (and leave behind a puff of smoke). And so, he ventures into the Sol System in search of new challenges, and of course, sees the Tenno as a worthy foe. The in-game reason behind him attacking Tenno is stated as avenging a particular boss, who, more or less, is an apathetic person/entity, but then again so is Zer0. Also, his frame is also black, just like his default color scheme(albeit his head is more sinister looking). And last but not least, one of his class mods in Borderlands 2 is called "Stalker".

Confirmed as of Update 11.

* Zigzagged with the Syndicates. The Tenno are free to support any of the six conflicting factions, but all six are still opposed to the Grineer and Corpus, and the Lotus is still in charge.

{{Jossed}} with the new Codex entry, which shows that he hates the Tenno because they betrayed the Orokin.

Hayden Tenno is confirmed to be the first Tenno. Seeing as he was likely rescued by the Orokin at some point and possibly their first in command, it would make sense that he would be loyal to them. Similarly, the Stalker's frame resembles the Excalibur, confirmed to be the first warframe. He could be something of a SuperPrototype, which is why his powers would later be used and adapted to other frames.

* confirmed as of the launch of the syndicates (the final form of the "proxy wars"), the respective splinter factions are:
** '''split from the grineer:''' the steel meridian, lead by a grineer deserter it's members are both other grineer deserters and regular humans. they focus on protecting the peacefull collonies scattered throughout the system fro many who would harm them.
** '''split from the corpus:''' the perrin sequence, made out of corpus deserter and other humans. they focus on peacefull, pro-greneral well being trading, in their representative's word's "a shared prosperity can bring a shared peace".

* Jossed by War Within: the Twin Queens [[spoiler: are Orokin who have been playing GrandTheftMe to survive for centuries, and since Grineer bodies are inferior, they want your human body.]]

[[spoiler: Confirmed in part by Corrupted Ancient Synthesis entry.]]

In an InUniverse case of TechnologyMarchesOn, the first warframes were [[spoiler: exoskeletons housing the Tenno children]], and due to the Tenno taking fatalities such as [[spoiler: Mirage and Limbo]], switched to [[spoiler: The current model of Warframes, remote controlled drones that are less powerful than the original, but could always be repaired/rebuild, as a Tenno who is killed is gone, but a dead next generation warframe can always be recovered and revived/repaired]]. This explains why [[spoiler: the original Mirage was much, much more powerful than the current version, and why her loss was so catastrophic for the Lotus, as she saw one of her adopted children die, not just the destruction of a weapon that could always have been rebuilt like current warframes are]].

* This is a beautiful theory, and definitely explains some things that would otherwise seem contradictory. In the War Within, the Lotus talks about how all traces of [[spoiler: the Zariman children]] except for their physical presence was erased, yet somehow she knows enough to answer some of their questions, including some of the revelations that Teshin gives in the War Within. Since the Lotus is [spoiler: a Sentient A.I.] there's no other way she could have known this information, since without digital records, the information does not exist to her.

It's not a coincidence that [[spoiler: the two have the same voice and motherly attitude towards the Tenno. Margulis' main contribution to the Orokin war effort was perfecting Transference. "The Silver Grove" reveals that Transference was able to be used for more than just creating a link between Zariman children and the Warframes (Archimedian Silvana used it to become ''a tree'') and it's implied that creatures linked via Transference will pass similar attitudes onto one another (as Silvana felt "an evil ink, staining [her] mind" when piloting Titania, and the rogue Titania later decided to defend [[NatureHero Silvana's]] forest to the death). It's entirely possible that Margulis, rather than put her surrogate children in the line of fire, attempted to take the easy way to win the war and simply use her own invention to [[HijackingCthulhu brain-jack]] the enemy HiveMind, or at least use one unit to infiltrate and destroy their fleet. While she didn't ''completely'' succeed, the one Sentient she linked to, Natah, inherited some of Margulis' personality, particularly her attitude towards the Tenno; this provoked the Sentient to consider that she could no longer bear her own children. Margulis was executed by the Orokin because they didn't approve of the risk she took and the subversion of their plans for the survivors of the Zariman Ten Zero -- or perhaps out of fear she turned over Orokin secrets to the enemy and received some of the Sentients' [[KillEmAll hostility]] in return. When Natah broke away from the Sentients, Ballas accepted her into the Orokin ranks because she was all that was left of the love he once knew, and charged her to guide the Tenno, who accepted the aid of the [[ReplacementGoldfish familiar voice.]]]] And of course, when the war ended and the Orokin attempted to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispose of the Tenno]] out of fear they could [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turn on their creators]] like ''[[FromBadToWorse everything else]] [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard they made]] [[ProperlyParanoid already had]]'', the Lotus did the motherly thing and turned on the Orokin, warning and convincing the Tenno to [[SelfFulfillingProphecy fight for their lives]].

** [[spoiler: Turns out the Sentients were AIs.]]