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15	* Unmodded Tenno/Orokin weapons provides balanced stats against everything, which destroy Grineer and Infested alike. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration The Corpus know this from studying Orokin technology]]. And so they came up with their counter: lots and lots of energy shields. No wonder Ospreys are so annoying.
16	* Early-tier Grineer weapons tend to be effective against Corpus: they were fighting them for years before you showed up.
17	* Faction weapons:
18	** On the whole, the ugly Grineer weapons compare very favorably to the sleek Corpus weapons. Why? Because Corpus are a megacorp and so their weapons are designed by marketing execs for ''sale''. The Grineer are soldiers, and so their weapons are designed by soldiers for ''combat.''
19	** Also, most Corpus weapons are actually repurposed tools used by crewmembers rather than dedicated weapons of war. However, the dedicated combat weapons among the Corpus do compare well against the Grineer weaponry, showing that when the Corpus get serious about making combat equipment, it can be very potent.
20	** Checking the stats for the weapons also shows their purpose: Grineer weapons tend to fire fast and have high Impact damage, making them great for stripping shields from Corpus and Tenno. Corpus weapons, meanwhile, deal primarily Puncture damage, making them great for killing Grineer. Since the Corpus are constantly fighting the Grineer, and selling weapons to colonies who have to fend off Grineer invasions, it makes sense that the Corpus weapons would focus on armor penetration.
21	* Excalibur's Radial Blind. In Arthurian Legend, the first time Arthur's reign is challenged, he drew Excalibur and it blinded his enemies, sound familiar?
22	* Secondary damage types:
23	** Magnetic; amazingly effective against Corpus. But then, the Corpus are a faction that consists heavily of robotic and mechanized forces. And we all know what ''magnets'' do to computers. Magnetic damage deals normal damage against every class of Health. Because just about everyone in Warframe is a {{Cyborg}} of some kind. Even the Infested were {{Cyborg}}s before succumbing to [[TheVirus the Technocyte Virus]].
24	** Viral; very effective against the Grineer, tends to fall short on killing anyone else. The Grineer are malformed, cybernetic reliant tube-born soldiers who can’t survive outside their suits. Their immune systems likely can’t take any viral/bacterial infections to save their lives.
25	*** Considering that the Grineer are largely cloned from a single source, if not from already existing Grineer, their immune systems likely haven't had any time to build up immunities to sickness, and all of the rampant cloning have likely added in a number of genetic defects that compound upon that lack of resistance.
26	** Gas; highly effective at cutting down the Infested, but not much else. Not only do most of the enemies in the game wear helmets that probably have filters, but the Infested are primarily made up from fungal growths and vaguely plant-like structures. Indiscriminate usage of chemicals sprays and attacks in real life usually results in the death of plant life around the area of affect.
27	*** May also be a nod to the [[VideoGame/DarkSector darkSector]], where Infested were especially vulnerable to the Enferon - a gaseous chemical.
28	** Radiation; inflicts confusion. At first glance it sounds like they just needed SOMETHING to stick Confuse onto, but real life acute radiation syndrome lists numerous neurological disorders among its symptoms. That, or it just puts IFF systems on the fritz since it also affects robots, and confusion does nothing but turn off the FriendlyFireproof nature of warframes.
29	* Valkyr (TheBerserker warframe) has a skill called "Hysteria" that darkens your vision, forces you into melee-only combat and grants NighInvulnerability for it's duration. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShownTheirWork Actual Norse berserkers fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, and some theories suggest they did so by eating drugged food before battle (which also resulted in altered sensorial perception)]]. the Valkyr warframe isn't just emulating how a real berserker would fight, it's also using InterfaceScrew to (partially) give the player a sense of how a real berserker would '' perceive things''.
30	* All of (Classic) Stalker's weapon are designed specially to kill warframes. His bow ''Dread'' and his scythe ''Hate'', the two weapons you're likely to face in combat against him, focus on slash damage whose status effect is [[NoKillLikeOverkill Bleeding]]. His Despair knives are advertised as SharpenedToASingleAtom, which is in turn advertised as an anti-Warframe weapon. A Nikana stance mod Stalker can drop upon his defeat is called ''Blind Justice''. The name probably refers to [[KnightTemplar what Tenno think of the Stalker.]]
31	* A fairly easy connection to make, but beyond having him in its picture stance, Vengeful Revenant is especially descriptive of the Stalker. A revenant is someone who has returned from the dead. The Stalker is yet another shadow of the Orokin Empire that was thought to have been completely wiped out.
32	* Hek's namesake shotgun deals primarily Puncture damage, making it good against... other Grineer. Not unreasonable to suspect he uses it primarily to dispose of any other Grineer who might try to get in the way of his plans.
33	* Ordis is a [[MeaningfulName Cephalon]] in charge of operating your Liset. In biology, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalon_%28arthropod_head%29 cephalon refers to the head section of arthropods]]. Now look at your Liset again.
34	* About Ordis... Digital Extreme is a Canadian studio. And in French, computer is said "Ordinateur", and often abbreviated "Ordi". In plural, it's "Ordinateurs", abbreviated "Ordis" (though the s is silent). Ordis is an AI. I believe we have a {{pun}} here.
35	* Why was Alad V, a ''massive'' racist against the Grineer who openly insults them to their face, ever appointed Head of Grineer Relations? That was the Corpus telling the Grineer exactly what the Board thinks of them.
36	* The placement of the different syndicates' rooms in the Relay seems arbitrary at first, but they're actually divided up to show which syndicates best synergize with each other. The East Wing contains Cephalon Suda, Steel Meridian, and the Arbiters of Hexis, all of which a player can progress in at the same time without having to worry about losing standing with one of them while building up another. Likewise, the same can be done with the Perrin Sequence, Red Veil, and New Loka, which are all in the West Wing. The Conclave and Cephalon Simaris are both neutral and have no impact on standing with other syndicates, and as such, can be found to the north. Also, separating these groups as they have been reduces tensions. Perrin Sequence, Red Veil, and New Loka are generally baseline humans, while Cephalon Suda is a Cephalon, Steel meridian are Grineer, and the Arbiters are Tenno. Spreading them apart keeps potential conflicts from happening, especially between the purity-obsessed New Loka and the genetically-modded Grineer or AI Cephalon Suda.
37	* It might not be too far of a stretch to think that every time you joined a Defense mission to protect Warframe Cyropod, [[https://youtu.be/r2RR6KBlcs8 you are protecting other 'sleeping' Tenno]], [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration just like you in the very beginning]].
38	* Archwing in underwater maps moves slower than in space, because of the friction involved.
39	* When ''The Second Dream'' was released, a player in the official forum made an interesting observation. ([[https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/569558-u18megaspoiler-do-not-read-if-you-havent-done-the-second-dream-vor/ SPOILER here]]) : If the warframe and the Operator are separate entities, then why should the Lotus be worried when Vor put his Ascaris Device on the player? The answer is Vor just basically recreated Transference by tapping into YOUR head and got too darn close to the truth in the process. Had the Lotus not helped, Vor might be able to create his own warframe army.
40	* The name Tenno; Update 18 reveals the Tenno human operators are the children survivors of the Zarimen ''Ten Zero'' Void accident. 'Zero' is also said as 'O'. 'Tenno' is another way of saying 'Ten Zero'.
41	* The missions on the Orokin Moon see Corpus and Grineer fighting each other. The game never explains why, but we can safely assume that both of them are going after Orokin technologies stashed inside.
42	* If you are defeated by the Corpus Harvester assassin, your warframe is taken into Alad V's custody and you must escape through a special mission to regain access. However, you can just swap to a different warframe and never worry about completing that mission, which almost seems like GameplayAndStorySegregation... until the Second Dream reveals that the Operator really is just switching to a different remote interface.
43	* With the revelations within the Second Dream questline Kubrows make perfect sense. Why would you engineer a combat dog that is also such a sweetheart to its partner off mission? Dogs are noted to have therapeutic effects on their partners so maybe Margulis made the first Kubrows as her means to heal the Tenno, but after her death they were turned into weapons of war.
44	* Hunhow the Sentient, was torn apart into thousands of pieces, each still conscious and connected to a central mind. So it's rather fitting that he was buried [[Myth/ClassicalMythology on Uranus.]]
45	* Ordis sometimes says a particular quote while you're on the Liset. "Operator were you visualizing a bloody battle? '''''M-m-me too'''''." Turns out there's a reason for that bloodlust. Ordis used to be a human mercenary well known for wanton slaughter.
46	* Why are Sentient scouts so damn [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheesy]]? They're explicitly the last nail in the Orokin coffin. They aren't cyborg wage slaves, zombies or brain-dead clones. They're monsters (probably technically not) from another star, and you were bred to fight them in the last desperate act of a dying race. And the specimens in the game ([[NightmareFuel so far]]) are just scouts and skirmishers. Start training, Tenno.
47	* According to [[WordOfGod Cephalon Cordylon]], the reason foundry blueprints charge credits is Ordis siphoning off funds to maintain the ship. Otherwise Tenno would just blow their money on more and more weapon blueprints until they starve. Taking [[LateArrivalSpoiler certain later revelations]] (specifically that the Tenno are psychic child soldiers) into account, it makes perfect sense that the Lotus wouldn't trust the Tenno to handle their own mundane expenses.
48	* Affinity, mastery, and polarities:
49	** As a Tenno uses a weapon more and learns it inside and out, they figure out how to fit more mods into parts of it, knowing which parts of the weapon are and are not important or can be improved upon, and how they can modify the weapon without breaking it. Forma literally changes the shape of the weapon, so it can fit polarities easier, but a Tenno needs to relearn the altered shape of the weapon. Orokin Catalysts are technical devices that replicate many of a weapon's functions so more parts can be removed, while Orokin Reactors replace the complex internals of a Warframe with a smaller, more potent energy source, freeing up more room within the frame to modify it.
50	** The free polarity slots in prime weapons could represent a Tenno's intimate knowledge of that design, being the weapons they wielded in the Old War.
51	** The automatic modding slots you gain from having Mastery ranks also reflects how experienced the Tenno has become with weaponry and modding in general. The more a Tenno fights and trains and studies weapons as a whole, the better they are at understanding and manipulating even weaponry and gear that is new and unfamiliar to them.
52	* For several of the Restores that you can make, like health and energy, it requires the resource Nanospores which is dropped mostly from the Infested and in-game says it's Infested tissue to be handled with caution. Why would the Tenno use them as components for items to heal and empower themselves? Because the Warframes are made from Infested flesh.
53	* Similarly, What is Helminth's purpose aboard the Orbiter? Ordis says it provides certain "biological functions", but does not mention "life support". Helminth is ''absolutely loyal'' to Nidus, and unknowingly by extension, the Operator. If you need to make a Warframe out of Infested tissue, an Infested entity that is slavishly devoted to you would be perfect for that purpose.
54	* Argon crystals decay when out of the Void. It's not that inconceivable, considering that Argon is a noble gas, and they're generally known for not being very chemically active, and as such they wouldn't be able to sustain themselves, let alone generate, outside its extradimensional home.
55	* Frohd Bek is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive highly influential Corpus member.]] His first name is pronounced a lot like "fraud". You can now do your own LamePunReaction.
56	* Titania's Spellbind not only stuns enemies but removes and protects against debuffs. She is also the only Warframe to have an integrated Archwing. Every time you cast Spellbind on a squadmate, you're activating and extending your life support bubble.
57	* Speaking of Titania, she mainly focuses on CC first-> avoiding damage-> dealing damage. Most of her abilities are designed to also protect her allies. Her very first ability, Spellbind, deals no damage, and her others deal damage only after disabling the enemy in some way. Taking these into account, it could be representative of Silvana's horror at creating a killing machine, so she focused on Titania being able to fight, but making her abilities do as little damage as possible.
58	* The Tusk enemies on the new Plains of Eidolon can call in more troops with ease. How do the dropships get there so fast? They were making supply runs to bases on the plains, and only had to alter their course a little and drop off some soldiers.
59	* Why were the Sentients out to completely annihilate the Orokin? If, as seems to be the case, they were created as a colonization tool that gained intelligence, then upon arrival the Orokin would likely begin attempting to exterminate them for "having served their purpose". Who ''wouldn't'' strike back for that?
60	* Baro says that Martian jellyfish are some of the best delicacies in the Origin System, and pays a premium for cryotic to transport them off planet. However Darvo says despite the hype, the jellyfish are apparently nasty and nowhere near the hype that Baro speaks of. Baro, being the last of the Martian Sand People, likely ate them as a child as easy to spoil seafood is often food for the poor who could afford to eat little else. He calls them a delicacy because they do taste special to him, a small bit of the life he had lost when the Grineer invaded.
61	** Alternatively, they WERE a delicacy to the Martian Sand People. Their perishable nature and specialized preservation (using Cryotic) meant that they were out of reach for the common folk, meant only for shipment off-planet, to the wealthy and priveledged.
62	* The fact The Lotus manages every mission might seem like a case of Gameplay and Story Segregation considering how many Tenno there are who presumably get the same treatment, being able to manage that many operations at once would require machine like efficiency, becomes much more reasonable when you realise that's exactly what she is.
63	** It becomes more evident she was handling all of the missions herself once she's taken away, where Ordis has to replace her with an automated hologram that recites her lines that is very clearly not the real Lotus. If she were using some sort of automaated system to handle the missions, it's likely the portrait would show the system itself and not Lotus.
64	* A lot of Corpus enemies focus on evading or neutralizing close combat enemies, like Nullifiers, the various flying robots, and the small Ratels. These weapons are tailor made to repel not just Tenno in general, but also one Warframe in particular: Valkyr, the Warframe who is virtually the archnemesis of the Corpus. Nullifiers basically make it impossible for Valkyr, or any other close-combat Warframe with sustained abilities, to keep their invulnerability active in close range, while the flying enemies and Ratels are hard to hit in melee. This forces them to either keep their distance, where they are less effective and the Corpus can bring massive energy weaponry to bear, or forces them into a high-risk close attack inside the bubble where the Corpus can quickly kill the Warframe before it can take out the Nullifier and escape. Nullifiers also make life hard for Vauban, the Warframe made to counter and mock the Corpus and their greed, as their shields can protect other Corpus troops while absorbing the charges from his various mines. It's a full-on arms race between the Corpus and the Warframes made to fight them.
65	** Expanding on this fridge brilliance, two newer Warframes have abilities that absolutely wreck Corpus: [[AntiArmor Hildryn]] and [[BigEater Grendel]]. Hildryn’s main abilities involve siphoning enemy shielding to fuel her abilities, as well as simultaneously suspending enemies and converting them into fuel sources for her allies, and thanks to augments can disable those pesky [[PowerNullifier Nullifier bubbles]] by shooting them with her [[HandBlast Balefire]] cannon. Grendel has the ability to [[EatingTheEnemy consume units and disable them]], with Nullifiers being powerless to use their bubbles. Two of his other abilities are also very effective against Corpus, as they buff his allies with Toxin damage and launch a powerful toxic projectile, respectively. Now, [[ArmorPiercingAttack what does Toxic damage do to enemies with shields, again]]?
66	* With Sacrifice, it becomes clear why Teshin is on our side. We're playing at least partially as his fellow Dax and proof the Orokin weren't that great - of course he prefers us to the Twin Queens. Additionally, the Tenno are still open to criticism, attempting to learn from their mistakes, ''and'' treat him with a great deal of respect as they’re superior in skill and age. A far cry from the Golden Lords of old. Some Tenno might even view him as their father figure, as he tries to be reasonable and guide them as best he can, barring outside interference.
67	* In an incredible bit of foreshadowing: The Helminth Charger pet is created by cultivating the Helminth Virus and injecting it into a Kubrow during incubation, turning it into a creature similar in appearance to Nidus. As we learn from ''The Sacrifice'', the Helminth is what allows for the creation of Warframes by injecting human subjects with a cultured version of the Infestation. Essentially, the process of making Helminth Chargers is similar to the process of creating Warframes.
68	* Umbra only takes about 10 seconds to assemble, rather than the real-life hours or days other warframes need. This is because other warframes require you to culture and grow the parts that will become them. Umbra? You're re-assembling his pieces back together.
69	* Alad V commented that he "opened up a warframe" and was "confused by what he saw inside". This was back when it was implied that warframes were armor that Tenno wore. However, his comment still makes sense. If frames are just Infestation in a humanoid shape, Alad would have seen that... and frames don't ''act'' like the Infestation. They possess powers that the Infestation doesn't have. He might have figured out that they were once people, but the same is true for the Infestation itself. In hindsight, his own experiments to create the Mutalists could very well be an ''extremely'' misguided attempt to gain the powers of a warframe for himself, especially after he infected himself!
70	* The Orokin valued physical beauty and symmetry above all else. Ballas' right arm is stretched to twice "normal" length; he also tends to stand or walk with it held behind him, and his clothing is designed with long strips of fabric ''only'' on his right side - an attempt to hide or disguise his deformity. And why would one of the Orokin look like this, if they required physical perfection? Ballas worked on developing the Tenno; Margulis was loved by them and was still burned and blinded by PowerIncontinence. Ballas, on the other hand, was a total asshole. It wouldn't be surprising if, say, Mag "accidentally" lost control of her "Pull" power and deformed him with Void powers in a way the Orokin couldn't fix at the time. And after the Empire fell, there was no one ''around'' to research a remedy.
71	** Revelations from the Glassmaker Nightwave season and Deimos reveal that Ballas is, shockingly enough, ''not unique'' in having a hyperextended right arm. Both Nihil the Glassmaker and every member of the Entrati family also have extended right arms arms, which raises a considerable number of questions regarding whether the arms might have some cultural or genetic significance. It appears that members of the Executors class might have them by default, as a way of easily denoting their position, much like how Grineer rank is easily determined by their armor pattern, but it should be noted that this blatantly flies in the face of what we knew of Orikin culture beforehand with regards to the Twin Queens.
72	** It was a cultural thing, symbolising their so-called "generosity".
73	* In the Fortuna trailer, the drum beats and lyrics for "We All Lift Together" are timed in conjunction with the actions of the Solaris workers. While at first glance this looks like just a good synchronization between the trailer and the song, traditional [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_song work songs]] often used the beat and cadence of the song to coordinate activities to increase efficiency, especially if they had to by synchronous, i.e. sawing logs or hammering stakes. Plus, work songs were commonly used by slave laborers, and the Solaris debt-slaves certainly count.
74	* If the Operator has been capable of fighting since the War Within why did take until the Plains of Eidolon for them to get a weapon, and why was it the Quills and not the Lotus who provided it for them? It's because the Lotus is overprotective and does not want to see her children risking themselves by going into battle. The Quills on the other hand know they are capable, and that denying it is a mistake.
75	* At first, the "Reputation" mechanic with Cetus and the Syndicates seem weird, since you use the very same "reputation" to buy items, mods or crafting components, making it seem like the group likes you less after you bought a blueprint from them. But then you realize, these things are actually ''favors'' the Ostrons and the Syndicates own you for helping them. You never actually get paid when doing missions for them (the loot you get on Cetus bounties are just loot you get from the Grineer), so it's not hard to think that they'd be willing to give resources and such to the guy who has been helping them out.
76	** It's not hard to imagine why the Solaris run by favors for favors. They don't have money to reward you with, otherwise they wouldn't be stuck slaving away for Nef Anyo, so they let you take some of their wares at your own discretion instead. Inversely, the Entrati are paying you; you can't get standing with them from the usual sources, where they instead give you Entrati Family Tokens, which you can give back to Grandmother for standing.
77	*** The above being said, it makes great sense for the Entrati to give you tokens instead of just giving you standing straight up. They all hate each other, and it's likely the Tenno doing something for one of them wouldn't mean a lot for the others. It takes Grandmother, the one person who the family unanimously likes, to get them to value the Tenno's help equally no matter what they did and who it directly benefits. The exception is Otak, who doesn't seem to have any negative opinion on the Entrati, but it's likely because he and Loid are outsiders that their contributions are also separate from the family, considering the most acknowledgement they get is Mother having the two run as MissionControl.
78	** For [[spoiler: The Holdfasts and the Cavia]] you gain standing from handing in items found within their tilesets to their resident smart guy, [[spoiler: Archimedian Yonta and Loid, respectively]], which are both Void-related materials, as well as from Bounties the "leader" of the group, [[spoiler: Quinn and Fibonacci, respectively,]] hands out. Seeing as how as you progress through their ranks, [[spoiler: TheCorruption of the Holdfasts is steadily undone as they [[TheAtoner come to terms with their past lives]] and the Cavia are cured of their Void sickness [[BackFromTheDead by dying and returning as phantoms similar to the Holdfasts]], coming to grips with their new reality of being a trio of UpliftedAnimal beings]], the materials you hand in and favors done for them end up driving progress towards their ultimate goal, and let you take items they also found from the territories they control as thanks.
79	* It’s odd that the Grustrag Three of all people would practice MookChivalry, being a hit squad made of the most insane and violent soldiers in the Grineer Empire. Considering how unremarkable they find the Tenno however, it’s possible that they are actually using it as a SelfImposedChallenge. Thinking that it would be no fun to gang up on such an inferior foe, and that fighting one-on-one would be more entertaining.
80	* Why is Excalibur Umbra already max rank when you build him? While other Warframes are mindless and rely on the Operator to control them, Umbra is fully conscious and aware. There is no learning period where the Operator has to grow familiar with him before realizing their full potential because Umbra can already fight on his own.
81	* Revenant's fourth ability "Danse Macabre" changes its damage type to whatever the target is most vulnerable too. The Sentients who Revenant is based off of were known for their ability to adapt, turning the Orokin's own weapons and technology against them during the old war. While Sentient enemies can gain resistance to certain damage types. Revenant has these same abilities but uses them offensively.
82	** Similarly, Caliban, an even more blatantly Sentient-themed frame, also utilizes offensive AdaptiveAbility skills through [[DamageIncreasingDebuff Sentient Wrath]] and [[AntiArmor Fusion Strike]], and with a defensive AdaptiveAbility as well, more resembling the Adaptation mod over the damage reduction gained at health levels like enemy Sentients. These abilities might also be representative of the Sentients using their adaptation for offense as well.
83	* Why do the people of Fortuna have their real heads in their chests? Simple really, a head is a very venerable part that could easily get either injured in some way or get affected by harmful gasses or various other factors. by putting them in their chest compartment, it keeps them safe from the very dangerous conditions they have to work in.
84	* Grineer clone degradation:
85	** Clem can only say three word sentences at most, and he's immune to the Twin Queen's brainwashing. Why? He must have been born with a birth defect that took out the genetic markers that enforce Grineer obedience. It seems that the Grineer defectors, such as Clem, Steel Meridian, and the Kavor, are on the whole tougher and more healthy (as evidenced by their lack of cybernetics) than the average Grineer. It seems very likely that what causes complete compliance to the Queens positively destroys the Grineer with CloneDegeneration.
86	** Kela De Thrym lacks implants and Kyl Regor, while AxCrazy, is WickedCultured and intelligent enough to make {{Super Soldier}}s.
87	* Nef Anyo is the one selling the rigs to the Solaris, including their cybernetic heads. Why doesn't he put in a virus that tweaks their minds to make them more loyal? Because they still have their biological minds controlling their rigs.
88	* Ember old passive allowed her to regenerate energy and deals more ability damage when she's burning because she could draw power from the flames around her and use them to help conjure her own fire rather than having to make it out of thin air. Her new passive, gaining increased ability strength for each burning enemy nearby, can be explained in the exact same way.
89	* Why does Eudico give the Tenno Garuda's blueprint at the end of Fortuna's introductory quest, when the resources needed to actually build her cannot be obtained until you reach Rank 4 with the Solaris United syndicate? Simple. Its bait. By giving the Tenno schematics for a warframe that only the people of Fortuna can help them build, Eudico ensures that anyone who wants it will have to stick around and help. Even if the Tenno is only after the warframe, by the time they reach high enough rank to actually build it they will have done Eudico and her people a mountain good, and perhaps even grown sympathetic enough to continue helping them anyway.
90	* Kitguns are [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised]], [[DesignItYourselfEquipment modular]] guns that are extremely effective against Corpus, easily shredding through their shields, while several of them fire a wide angle beam that make it more easy to pull off a BoomHeadshot bypassing the shield gate of Corpus units, or hit Ospreys, but their poor armor penetration capabilities makes them ineffective against the Grineer. Then again, they are improvised weapons meant for untrained fighters to use against Corpus targets, and said fighters need all the help they can get.
91	* In contrast to a traditional Day/Night Cycle like the one seen on the Plains of Eidolon, the Orb Vallis on Venus has a Warm/Cold Cycle. This is because a Day/Night cycle on Venus takes 243 Earth Days to complete. Ain't nobody got time for that, Tenno.
92	* How did we get the Euphona Prime when there was no regular Euphona to begin with? Many of the non-primed items we have were made by copying the original Orokin era designs, which have been lost and are very hard to come by. Its possible that the Euphona's designs were so rare that no on knew enough about it to even make a non-prime version.
93	** This is further backed up by Baro Ki'teer's reaction to it. Normally when a player approaches him with a prime warframe or weapon he will compliment them. If they have only the Euphona Prime however he will not notice and treat it like any other weapon. This is because its so rare that he doesn't recognize it as a genuine Orokin design.
94	* Many were confused when Wisp, an ethereal frame, had abilities that weren't tied to her supposed theme of ghosts and spirits, especially her 4, which allows her to create a portal to the surface of the Sun and [[WaveMotionGun roast her foes with a concentrated beam of plasma]]. Things got cleared up a little more when someone suggested that she's based off of a Will 'o Wisp, a swamp spirit that leads travelers astray, but it didn't seem to explain her 4. The thing is, Will 'o wisps are actually burning orbs of swamp gas. What else is a burning orb of gas? The Sun.
95	* The Incarnon weapon line has the ability to [[EvolvingWeapon change form]] after certain criteria are met in a mission, but notably do not retain this ability if given over to Specters, Hostages, or other non-Tenno entities that can use your weapons. Why? Ostensibly this is a balancing factor, but there's lore reason as well: Incarnon weapons only perform their shift in the presence of an extremely powerful Void energy source... such as the Operator. Specters, Hostages, and so forth are not Void-touched in the same way Tenno are, and cannot force or maintain an Incarnon shift even if you shift the weapon yourself before handing it to them. They lack the continual source of Void energy to sustain the shift, and it returns to its mundane state.
96	* A major plot point in "The New War" is an EnemyMine between the Drifter and Hunhow to save Natah from becoming Ballas' slave. As an extension of this brief alliance, the Stalker helps out the Drifter during the hunt for Erra's Archons. He is also PromotedToPlayable in Duviri, willingly giving his aid to the Drifter upon maxing out the Opportunity Intrinsic. The Drifter is an AlternateSelf of the Operator that never received his Void powers and thus technically didn't rebel against the Orokin, which would explain why the Stalker would have little issue offering his aid.
97	* Why are the "Decrees" that buff the player obtained in Duviri beneficial to the Drifter, given they're implied to be from Dominus Thrax? Because it's the ''Drifter'' making the Decree as they take power back from Thrax, laying down new laws of the land that the puppet Child King is not able to go against.
98	* Every 5 rounds in a Defense mission, the Lotus lets you know that reinforcements are available if you want to stop. It's very likely that these reinforcements are actually another squad of players who choose to run this mission, and that every time you play a Defense mission, you're taking over for another party who had to extract.
99	* Despite how important the data in Spy missions and the targets in Capture missions supposedly are to the enemy factions, they don't have that much security protecting them. This can be explained as a consequence of Exterminate and Survival missions: you've already killed off a large amount of their manpower, and most of the remainder are distracted by other players doing Survival runs. The Lotus explicitly states that the goal of most Survival missions is to distract the enemy forces so other Tenno can raid the ship unimpeded, and these Tenno agents could be other players doing missions in different nodes.
100	* Gauss has SuperSpeed but lacks the reflexes or ability to rapidly redirect his momentum needed to avoid slamming in to walls or other barriers. This is because he doesn't need to avoid slamming in to walls. Since resistance to heat, cold, and kinetic forces was already part of his RequiredSecondaryPowers to not be torn apart by his own abilities and Gauss was likely intended as part of a vanguard force, he was likely given Kinetic Plating as a way of both making him able to survive frontline combat and remove the need for him to not ram in to things. Mach Rush [[FoeTossingCharge sending enemies flying like bowling pins]] and causing powerful shockwaves when he does slam in to an obstacle he can't force aside might have even been an outgrowth of his kinetic barrier technology. This also makes sense out of universe as making a way for player that are running super fast not slam in to walls would be both difficult and much less funny, so it was better to reward players for ramming in to things. Plus, we all know that RammingAlwaysWorks.
101	* Dominus Thrax casting his personal army entirely out of facsimiles of the Dax might seem strange at first, but when you consider Thrax himself is a manifestation of the Drifter's SurvivorsGuilt at the time of the Zariman 10-0 incident, its clear the Tenno at the time held a high opinion of the actual Dax, especially considering their eventual respect for Teshin. Further adding to the Tenno/Thrax's admiration for the real Dax is the exaggerated knighthood and zeal the false Dax show when fighting them, as if they thought of them as superheroes that they'd love to have a personal army of them at their beck and call, especially with the manner in which the false Dax call their attacks when charging up a particularly powerful attack.
102	** Similarly, the Thrax units resemblance to Orokin-era Grineer and especially the Legatus' use of the Aeolak, itself a facsimile of the Gotva Prime assault rifle Orokin-Grineer were commonly armed with is definitely a product of the Tenno's respect for the original Grineer based on Lodun's comments on the matter.
103	-->'''Lodun:''' I told the Imp these Void-sodden travesties were a STUPID idea! [[HeroWorship "Oh but they're so strong, Lodun!"]]
104	* Cavalero occasionally mentions to the Tenno that he watches them fight intruders in the Zariman on the cameras sometimes and muses that he thought only the Dax were capable of moves like those. Based on the Tenno's aforementioned respect for the Dax, its easy to infer the Tenno purposely imitate their techniques and movements out of practicality and respect, though it dives into [=Fridge Horror=] when you remember that Warframes are mutated humans, and among them, Excalibur Umbra was formerly a high ranking Dax before Ballas turned him, the movements and dexterity of the Warframes may well be muscle memory from their previous lives.
105	* Lephantis' second phase strangely names each of the heads as "Infested Grineer," "Infested Corpus" and "Ancient Infested." While it could be taken as a sign of how far the Infestation can detach you from your former shape, especially given you can recognize the Corpus head as a massively mutated Crewman, they all align with what the head does. The Grineer head uses a massive scythe, mimicking the Grineer's simplicity and tendency to use close-ranged combat. The Corpus head summons spawning pods, referencing the Corpus' love of proxies and minions to fight for them. The Ancient Infested head fires spore bombs that deal Toxin damage (albeit without ignoring shields) across a massive area, referencing just what the Infestation is, a wide-spreading virus.
106	* Objectives in the Plains of Eidolon and Cambion Drift are much tougher than the objectives in Orb Vallis. Why? The objectives in the Plains are Grineer tech being stolen for the Ostron and Tenno's favor, while the objectives in the Drift are made to work servicably on [[DeathWorld Deimos.]] They're both built with opposition and endurance in mind. The Vallis? That's ruled by the Corpus, who don't have any opposition unlike the Grineer, who are being fought off by the Ostrons. The threat of Solaris United has come and gone, and the Corpus likely devoted their money towards quantity over quality. So when Solaris United comes back, the Corpus' technology has become very fragile. The exception is the Profit-taker Orbs and Exploiter Orb, but the durability of these two is likely the opposite side of the coin to the rest of the Vallis' technology; it's ultimately cheaper to develop a few of each to last, rather than leave them fragile and all the money they spent on their arsenal going down the drain.
107	* Why exactly was Deimos so heavily defended during the Old War and [[spoiler: [[TheElitesJumpShip hidden again in the Void during the New War]]? The moon is home to many valuable treasures and would have been a strategic target for the Sentients thanks to both holding the Heart of Deimos, crippling the Orokin connection to the Void, and [[spoiler: Albrecht’s labs being full of [[RareCandy Archon Shards perfect for the Sentient forces]]. Thus, the surface was converted into [[DeathWorld an Infested hellscape]] to deter the Sentients and other hostile visitors, and [[spoiler: Albrecht’s labs was staffed with miniature Necramechs able to summon normal ones for security purposes as well as [[NoOSHACompliance leave vials of highly corrosive liquid everywhere]] to drive out intruders.]] And it worked, seeing as how there’s a litany of failed Grineer and Corpus expeditions on the Cambion Drift forcing them to work with the native Entrati family to make any leeway, halting any more dangerous plans, and the fact that [[spoiler: of all the planets in the Origin System post New War, Deimos has no wrecked Murexes surrounding it]].
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110	* The Corpus, whose name is derived from a common word depicted in Orokin history, are now a ProudMerchantRace that worship Orokin greed and history [[ExactWords from its corpse]]. ''Corpus'' in Latin means ''body''.
111	* Ever wonder why you see very few female Corpus mooks outside of the rare elite Comba and Scrambus? The Cephalon fragment for the Corpus says the Corpus crewmen are ''[[BabyFactory purpose-bred]]''.
112	* Here in the real world, Ceres has no atmosphere. The Ceres of Warframe has a thick atmosphere choked with sickly green clouds weeping perpetual acid rain onto the surface. When you consider it's one of the largest Grineer factory worlds, it's entirely possible that it obtained this atmosphere entirely from its industrial output. The Grineer basically enacted HostileTerraforming as a ''side effect'' of their war effort.
113	* Survival missions were full of this:
114	** During the event that first introduced Survival missions, there was ''no extraction.'' You fought until you died. How many brave Tenno did the Lotus abandon to their doom?
115	** The Corpus could somehow turn off the oxygen generation for their frozen planetside outposts. Excavation has since replaced planetside Survival missions however.
116	* Have you ever taken a moment to look at health pickups? The texture is eerily similar to that of the Kuva that the Queens harvest. Health pickups drop from normal enemies. ''Kuva is made of people.'' To add on to this, one weapon lets you generate a health orb from dead (biological) enemies, adding more props to the Kuva is people theory.
117	* Valkyr:
118	** Valkyr is a Warframe that was a survivor of the Gradivus Dilemma, an event where Corpus exec Alad V disassembled several frozen Tenno to create his own special proxy, Zanuka, and the design of her Warframe reflects that. What appears to be some sort of mask is clearly the true form of her helmet, the inside plating quite visible in contrast to the flowing exterior, and a similar section along her spine shows the fine armor beneath the suit. In other places, what used to be the aforementioned organic exterior of the suit has been put back together with makeshift repairs, giving Valkyr's armor a very flayed and raw appearance. Furthermore, the rest of her suit is studded with pins, some of which seem to go through her arm, which could potentially be holding what's left of her exterior together. Combined with the obvious restraints that she now uses as weapons, and the constant anger and rage she barely keeps control of, and one can only imagine what horrors the Corpus did to her...
119	** Adding to this, take a good look at the color of Valkyr's Gersemi Armor (which is, according to the description, how Valkyr used to look like before Alad got his hands on her) and now look what color Zanuka has, both are turquoise, which implies that Alad literally ''Ripped Valkyr's skin off''.
120	* Rescue 2.0 (introduced in Update 13.2.0) has Infested in prison cells. It's possible that the technocyte virus works so quickly that some random civilian, insubordinate Grineer, Corpus POW, Red Veil member, etc. was thrown in just 1 minute ago, and transformed into an Infested in as much time. It's equally possible (and potentially proven, by a recent Infested-themed questline) that the Infested are in the cells as captives for research purposes. The lengths they must have had to go through to take one of things ''alive''...
121	* The only indication that "synthesis scanners" you get from Cephalon Simaris are lethal is when he randomly starts talking about the ethics of murder and UnwillingRoboticisation out of nowhere, without anyone prompting him to. Considering nonlethal scanning/teleportation devices already exist, for Capture missions, that's a pretty big thing to leave out of the briefing document.
122	* Ancient Healer synthesis codex describe the Orokin Lorists during Infested attack. Ancient ''Healer'' who can restore health and boost armor for its allies. Does that sound like any Warframe you have?
123	* "Fight poison with poison." Ballas created the original Saryn Prime, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters meaning that he's sending innocent children to work as a proxy in his own revenge scheme despite knowing damn well what happened.]]
124	* In the Sands of Inaros quest, one of the enemies the Sacred Vessels can send you to fight are Denial Bursas. While it's possible that the other eight possible targets existed in the Orokin Era (blue [=MOAs=], Detron gunmen, various Grineer laborers, Infested units) this one provably did not. Inaros had to have picked this target himself using data from the outside world, meaning ''[[AndIMustScream he's still alive after being torn to shreds and stuffed in three different burial urns]]''.
125	* The Red Veil blatantly torture Grineer, and utilize infested runners as hit squads. [[WasOnceAMan Chargers are made from horrifyingly warped Grineer bodies]]. Put two and two together. The Grineer being tortured ''right next to the Charger Pen'' already has.
126	* Cephalons are created through [[BrainUploading Brain Upload]]. And, as seen with Jordas, their use is, at the least in the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corpus]], still at large.
127	* During the Eyes of Blight, the Grineer find the extremely well-hidden Tenno relays, and will attempt to destroy them with Fomorians. They were able to find them because the Twin Queens can command Teshin, who knows the coordinates of the relays, to tell them.
128	* The War Within and the Orokin:
129	** The War Within reveals that the Orokin, in order to stay young, are [[GrandTheftMe stealing bodies]]. That is horrific enough. However, both times Orokin were mentioned or shown to have died of physical causes, the reaction from others was more in line with illness than actual death. Then there is the Yuvan theater, a place where Orokin can buy slaves to possess, and all the pieces fall into place. They do not need to switch bodies to survive. Those people they [[MindRape mindrape]]? [[BodySurf Nothing more than clothing to them]].
130	** Even better, the floors with the Golden Maws leading up to the theater are covered in bones. This means the Orokin used the Golden Maws as a 'selection process' for their new bodies.
131	** The Detron Crewman synthesis imprint also shows that the Orokin were cavalier about executing lawbreakers, to the point that an executor was willing to execute not only an engineer but his entire corpus if he lost an appeal. This extreme yet casual approach to execution makes more sense when an Orokin "dying" is effectively just a hefty financial loss rather than permanent death. For the Orokin, an execution was the equivalent of being severely fined, since the bodies being killed were just ''other'' human beings' bodies. Executing someone's "corpus" would likely mean not just killing the lawbreaker but every backup body they owned, ensuring their death was much more final.
132	* During the Chains of Harrow Palladino states the Red Veil was formed by Rell's teachings to combat The Man in the Wall. At the time of the game, the Red Veil is devoted to guerilla warfare against their enemies. This is because, as their leader states, their doctrines call for a violent purge to purify the Origin System. This either means that ''Rell'' commanded them to be TheUnfettered and perform a purge [[GodzillaThreshold to fight]] against the Man in the Wall, or Rell's commands were hijacked by a later member of the Veil, and turned them into the Syndicate today.
133	* Some further thought sheds more light on just how ''horrible'' the Orokin were. Rell was clearly unsuited for any form of combat whatsoever. ''The Orokin made him a frame anyway.'' A frame whose functions require it to sacrifice either energy, or its ''shields'' to empower allies. Harrow was made to be ''cannon fodder'' that lets its allies fight on just a little further.
134	** Compounding it is what went into making Harrow. Similarly to Nidus, Harrow's blueprint lists Kuva as one of the materials- a substance that the player has already been told turns the user immortal, while also [[PsychoSerum driving them bat-shit insane.]] Rell was doomed to insanity the moment he couldn't survive outside of Harrow anymore.
135	* Ballas' [[https://i.redd.it/aul0lsopcq8z.jpg artwork]] hits the UncannyValley deeply... But if you compare his eyes to that of the [[http://imgur.com/hNgKBAH possessed Operator]], you'll notice that they're eerily similar. Given that Orokin Continuity consisted of BodySurf, it's highly likely that the process is similar to the Man in the Wall, or even allowing him to be hijacked by him.
136	* The story in Sands of Inaros ends with Baro's mother being gunned down while a young Baro is desperately praying to Inaros to save her, just as the latter had done for his people in ages past. But Inaros did not answer and the Sand People would be wiped out to a man (specifically, Baro is the only survivor). In the second part of the story, Baro's mother tells that in the legend Inaros rose once more to save the colony from the Infestation, despite his body already been long since torn to shreds. So why did he not hear Baro's prayers? Simple. The Infestation came shortly after the Tenno rebelled against the Orokin, meaning that the Operators were still active. By the time Baro was born, the Tenno Operators have long since been locked away into the Second Dream and into stasis, no longer able to hear the prayers anymore. Or, given revelations in the Sacrifice, it was entirely possible that Inaros was reabsorbed by the Infestation.
137	* From the revelation of "The Sacrifice", if he wasn't YoungerThanTheyLook, the person based on Nezha was possibly infested when he was no older than the Tenno themselves.
138	* In "The Chimera" Ballas states that Lotus had fooled him and Tenno, and "There is only Natah". Wait, this means that [[Main/AFatherToHisMen dear mother Lotus]] had not perform HeelFaceTurn after the war and instead was EvilAllAlong, presumably in ManchurianAgent way. And the evil he did was Tenno protecting the balance (as it is stated several times in the game including Lotus' own quote) actually of various factions fighting each other and Tenno mercenaries not letting anyone win completely. Sounds like a plan to keep humanity weakened after the Old War until new Sentient army will be ready.
139	* The "Dog Days" Tactical Alert gives a chilling perspective on the Grineer. Due to Kela de Thaym getting crazy because of a gas leak (already terrifying in itself), she orders her Executioners to do a BeachEpisode water battle with the Tenno. They unquestioningly obey. Are they so terrified of their CO making an example of them they don't dare question her, or are they so biologically conditioned into blind obedience they '''literally can't even think''' of disobeying such an insane and pointless order?
140	* What happened with Cephalon Cy and his Railjack and crew? They had an amazing 4890 confirmed kills against the ''Sentients'' - but their last mission went horribly wrong when practically all the Railjack's systems shut down just as they were in range of a Sentient Wormship - including shields, weapons, and life support. Sounds an awful lot like outright sabotage, doesn't it? Why would someone sabotage them, given their exemplary record and the threat of the war? ''Because'' they were so good at killing them, that's why. We already know Ballas went traitor, and it wouldn't be above him to destroy one of the best anti-Sentient crews they had. Hell, it might even have been a prerequisite before the Sentients agreed to work with him!
141	* At the very least, the original Warframes were made via the Helminth strain of Infestation being used to infest Dax. The cryopod that makes up the majority of defense objectives is referred to as a warframe cryopod, but it’s not a warframe inside said cryopod, but rather a human-looking operative. Putting two-and-two together, it’s likely that the Tenno didn’t abandon the Orokin’s methods of creating warframes.
142	* With the ''New War'' we're introduced to Kahl-175, a seemingly normal Grineer foot soldier who near the end of his playable segment, lamenting the loss of his comrades decides in his seemingly final moments that his sacrifice isn't for the Grineer nor the Queens but for his brothers. After his subsequent veiling and escape from its influence after the death of Ballas in Veilbreaker, he goes completely rogue from the Queens after liberating not only himself and an entire platoon of fellow Grineer (and one Corpus Crewman) with the aid of Daughter Entrati and the Tenno. This alone implies that the Grineer's loyalty to the Queens isn't cloned into them as the stories of the Meridian, Kavor and Clem suggests, ''its merely the pressure of treason that keeps them in line.'' Which begs the question, [[WhatMeasureIsAMook how many of the several trillions of Grineer who have died up to this point would have changed sides had they simply been given the opportunity?]]
143	* Part of the reason for Dagath being cast aside by the Orokin polycule she was part of post-transformation into a warframe was because their relationship was no longer seen as taboo. Think about that word-choice. ''Taboo''. Suddenly all the SculptedPhysique the other warframes have a much dirtier reason for existing. It’s gets even worse when you account for [[spoiler: warframes being [[PoweredByAForsakenChild controlled by the Operators]].]]
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