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Corpus

We serve the Corpus. We are the Corpus.

"The Corpus embody the cold vacuum of space - heartless and bent on taking anything left unprotected. Driven by profits, the Corpus Board’s small numbers are supplemented by their legion of robot proxies, optimized for quick and efficient destruction. The Corpus are a merchant cult, built on the foundation of salvaged technology and robotics. They scavenge the outer systems, greedy for the Old War salvage. Their most sought after of all - the Tenno and their Warframe armor. Those captured are treated as salvage; meticulously dissected, integrated. The remains are sold to the highest bidder."

—Warframe Official Website

One of the three biggest factions in Warframe, and the second enemy faction that the Tenno are likely to encounter. While they're the closest thing to a stable civilization in Warframe's universe, the Corpus is a conglomerate of companies that is ruled by abusive and exploitative sadists who encourage profit and self-interest at any cost.

Virtually nothing is beneath the average Corpus if it's in the name of profit.

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Corpus in general

"May our ledgers become ocean, our margins see Centauri. In the name of Profit, I commit thee to the Void."

— Alad V

The Corpus is a conglomeration of plutocratic commercial and industrial interests unified by a single trade language and a common goal - the pursuit of wealth and Profit through the development and sale of advanced technologies and through the rediscovery of lost artifacts from the Orokin Era, including Warframes themselves and Sentients.

Their arsenal is a potent mix of energy weapons and use shielded robots to support their somewhat frail workers in combat, as well as specialized drones that can boost the shields of allies or lay mines. Their areas of operation are usually somewhat higher-security with Tenno-scanners and laser barriers, as well as heavy robots that are deployed whenever the alarms go off.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Two times, one is an event called Proxy Rebellion where their proxies started to rebel against them and the second time was nearly after Frodh’s Ambulas went rogue.
• Animal Theme Naming: Most of the Corpus Mecha-Mooks are named after animals: Moa, Osprey, Jackal, Hyena, Raptor.
• Armored But Frail: Corpus units tend to rely almost entirely on their Deflector Shields for defense, making them extremely vulnerable to attacks that bypass shields, such as Gas damage or the Unairu Focus school's Magnetic Flare. This is particularly noticeable in Sortie missions where their shield capacity is greatly increased: they won't take that much longer to kill if you use such attacks on them.
• Attack Drone: The Corpus has developed two major varieties that they use most commonly than the average crewmen: The Moa, man-sized shielded bipedal walkers armed with plasma repeaters by default. One variant augments it with the ability to Shockwave Stomp, another replaces it with a cover-penetrating railgun, and the most powerful is a fusion of Corpus and Orokin technology that sports a short-ranged beam attack and the ability to deploy its very own Attack Drone. Speaking of which, those are the Ospreys, flying drones that have minelaying, shield-leeching or shield-providing subtypes. The Fusion Moa's own Drone is armed with twin plasma guns for More Dakka.
• Baby Factory: The rarity of female Corpus mooks is due to this, since the vast majority of Corpus crewmen are explicitly described as purpose-bred. The lore remains unclear of how exactly these baby factories are... ah... "staffed".
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Their status as a merchant-cult leads them to do some pretty horrendous things, since they value profit (almost as a sacrament) above any moral concerns. On the other hand, they also help the Tenno in the name of profit. They can even have violent rivalries caused by wasting money.
• Capitalism Is Bad: An extreme example of how far the trope can be taken; George Orwell would be proud. They grab and sell anything the Grineer hasn’t destroyed or conquered, sometimes even trading with the Grineer themselves, profit from the thousands of wars and battles happening in the Origin System by selling weapons and being responsibles of massive amounts of death, they have several slave concentration camps (especially in Venus) where they overwork the indebted and make them pay impossible debts, their ship captains are cruel Bad Bosses that won’t give any bonuses to their crew after they risk their lives fighting the Tenno and if Veso’s behavior is anything to go by, the average life of a Crewman is soul-crushing and bleak, at least the Grineer have comradery and brotherhood bonds with one another as seen with Kahl, the Corpus Crewmen seem to betray one another to get more credits in their paycheck. Interestingly enough their mortal enemies, the Grineer, signify the opposite extreme on the spectrum. Contrast them with Cetus, who can be considered their Foil and a subversion of this trope overall; while Cetus is much more community-oriented and tightly-knit, they still maintain free and open trade with the rest of the system, up to and including the Corpus themselves, and run an effective economy on Earth despite (or perhaps because of) the dangers lurking around them.
• Cowardly Mooks: The Treasurers, loyalist members to Parvos Granum, try to run from you while guarding the Granum Crowns, a form of currency that is used inside the Corpus but we need it to enter the Granum Void to kill Specters.
• Deflector Shields: Corpus units tend to have low armor and health, but make up for it with high shields, which regenerate over time. This makes them vulnerable to Toxin and Gas status effects, which bypass shields, and to abilities that remove shields such as Hildryn's Pillage.
• Divergent Character Evolution: The various Corpus corps found across the system have several unique features to differentiate them from one another beyond color scheme.
  • Baseline Corpus occupy the Corpus Outpost and Corpus Ice Planet tilesets, and are The Generic Guy among the Corpus, wearing beige suits with blue light and armed with a Dera. There are also their elite versions who wear dark blue suits and are equipped with the more powerful Flux Rifles.
  • Tera Corpus are found on the Orb Vallis, and are characterized both for having several unique weapons (as well as several dedicated melee fighters) and for using numerous varieties of proxxies (including mook versions of the majority of the Corpus Bosses), as well as the tileset unique raknoids.
  • Juno Corpus are found on the Corpus Ship tileset, wearing red suits and their elite versions have yellow light on their helmets and have access to several varieties of MOA, ranging from those that use Deras, to disk launchers, and even suicide attack MOAs.
  • There are the Vapos Corpus, which are only found on the Corpus Gas City tileset. Wearing orange suits, several of their units have jetpacks, and they are also supported by Amalgam units.
• Do Not Run with a Gun: MOAs will only fire while stationary. This makes sense for most various, as even Corpus plasma weapons have a fair amount of kick, but peculiarly, this is still done by Fusion MOAs, which use lasers and thus don't have to deal with recoil.
• Drone Deployer: It's sort of their thing: since their crewmen also double as workers, most have the ability to deploy and command smaller robots. Techs can deploy Shield Ospreys, Snipers can lay down fabrication pads for Ratels and the Nullifiers emit their energy bubbles via an orbiting Projector Drone. Even their robotic Fusion Moas can deploy Attack Ospreys as a last-ditch offensive in case they're heavily damaged.
• Enemy Civil War: As of Deadlock Protocol, the Corpus have been split into two subfactions; the "main", Loyalist Corpus who serve the Board of Directors, and a splinter group that has flocked to Parvos Granum.
• Enemy Mine: The Corpus make an alliance fleet with the Grineer and the Tenno to defend the Origin System from the invading Sentient armada in "The New War". Unfortunately, it is not enough.
• Energy Weapon: The Corpus relies massively on energy and plasma weaponry such as their Dera energy rifles and their Arca Plasmor plasma shotgun in contrast to the Grineer’s Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better. The only instances where they don’t use energy weaponry is their Snipetrons and their Stahltas.
• Evil Is Not a Toy:
  • Say what you will about them, at least they know the Infestation is too dangerous to experiment on. As such, they have a permanent ban on Infested biotechnology, which even such profit-obsessed zealots seem to obey. Exceptions to this rule (Alad V during his duration as an infested, where created the mutalyst weapons, and the Black Seed) usually get shown the door, alongside copious amounts of plasma fire. The only tolerable exception to this is the Warframes, which are derived from infestation but considered too valuable to pass up.
  • Completely averted when it comes to Sentient technology. They already have done several experiments on uncovered remains of Sentients and have made weaponry such as the Battacor, the Ocucor, etc, as well as upgrading their soldiers and robots with it, making the Amalgams and the Raknoids.
• Facial Markings: Might indicate rank or membership in the various Corpus groups. All of the human Corpus in the game have them, even the Crewmen◊.
• Fair-Weather Friend: With the Grineer. Some of the time, they're favorite trading buddies. The rest of the time, the two factions are moments away from annihilating one another. Much less to be said about how often they're willing to help out the Tenno in the name of profit.
• Generican Empire: Both in-universe and out. “Corpus” is a Latin word meaning “body” or “framework” and often referred to legal entities such as temples or trade guilds, eventually evolving into both “corporation” and “corpse”. In-universe there were several corpi during the Orokin’s reign and the capital-C Corpus is the one that survived.
• Glass Cannon: When levels are equal, Corpus units are always more fragile than Grineer ones, but they can put out some nasty DPS. Elite Crewmen and Fusion Moa in particular can shred all but the most tanky Warframes in an instant.
• Good Fortune from God: They believe that the Void will reward their hard work and productivity with massive amounts of credits by worshiping it. Particularly prominent from Nef Anyo and Anyo Corp. Nef promises the Void will take notice of, bless, and give returns on any investments and donations, coincidentally in ventures that Anyo Corp has ownership in. It's not strictly known if Nef himself believes this or if he's simply a Con Man on top of being a major business magnate, but the fact his initial appearance was modeled off of U.S. televangelists and that he has went so far as to make a temple makes it all the more transparent that he crosses profit and religion more than other Corpus. It is implied that the voice that Parvos was greeted and would guide him into prosperity was actually from the Man in the Wall, which would explain why the Corpus worships the Void as much as they do to Profit.
• Greed: Their most defining trait. The average Corpus Crewman is indoctrinated from birth that they should always act on self-interest and try to hoard and obtain as much credits as possible. Their elite members are all flashy and flaunting and hoard the biggest amount of credits than anyone else. The player's Tenno remarks that the Corpus reminds them of the Orokin with their selfishness and greed. A Cephalon Fragments lore entry and the Vauban Prime trailer reveal that their greed disgusted even the Orokin, who condemned them as a merchant cult, despite the Corpus looking up to and seeing themselves as inheritors of the Orokin.
• Hack Your Enemy: The Bursa and Ambulas proxies are vulnerable to hacking. This will turn them against their creators, except in the Ambulas boss fight where it turns the disabled unit into a Trojan Horse to blow up the capital ship.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Amalgams - created by hybridizing Corpus crewman/machinery and sentients, they create a whole host of new units with powers unlike any in the game before.
• An Ice Person: Or rather, an ice corporation. Besides having exploding barrels full of Liquid Nitrogen in their bases, as well as being the creators of the Glaxxion freeze-ray, the Corpus seem to have a preference for setting up their bases on frozen planets and moons. Said cold environments are detrimental to their energy shields. One of the songs dedicated to them is called Sleeping in the Cold Below and the official website describes them as the cold vacuum of space.
• Legend Fades to Myth: When the Orokin still ruled the solar system, "corpus" was a generic word; there were a bunch of them. The Capital-C Corpus we know today seems to simply be the last one standing, and they've devolved quite badly from how little they really remember. The strict business quota the Orokin imposed is now a religion focused around greed and avarice, and they suffer borderline Machine Worship whenever they find something left over from Orokin ruins.
  • As it turns out, their founder created the cult to help serfs under the Orokin buy their way into a life with a chance at upward mobility.
• Machine Worship: They treat all the Orokin technology they find as sacred artifacts of the past and try to get them as much as they can to reverse-engineer it to upgrade their own technology.
• Mecha-Mook: Several of their Mooks are robots known as the Proxies. There are the Moas, the Ospreys, the Bursas, etc.
• MegaCorp: They're actually not a monolithic organization, but rather a conglomerate of several companies who have pledged loyalty to the Corpus as a whole in order to commerce with one another and with outsiders. They are also one of the two major powers in the solar system and control the outer planets and the Solar Rails that ferry supplies to the rest of the systems and hold a monopoly on manufacturing supplies and use this to manipulate the Grineer Empire when it comes to trade negotiations. Notably, the first two accesible landscapes convey the sheer scale of the Corpus rather nicely — the Corpus you find in Cetus are just merchants trying to buy and sell items from one or two stalls, and makes them seem rather small on the scale of system powers. Fortuna, however, is outright owned by a single Corpus executive.
• Money Fetish: Their love for credits is unparalleled to anything in the Origin System. Several members of the Corpus put the profit and money over their lifes, best exemplified with the Chief Directors of the Enrichment Labs of Nef during phase 2 of the Profit-Taker heist.
• N.G.O. Superpower: to the point they could claim to be One Nation Under Copyright.
• Not Using the "Z" Word: While there are instances where they call the Moas, the Ospreys, the Bursas as robots, the Corpus and other characters like the Lotus usually call these robots proxies, most likely because the proxies are the main work and military force that the Corpus employs.
• Oh, Crap!: The default reaction of Corpus capture targets upon coming face-to-face with their pursuers:
  Target: Oh no no no, not you, not you!
• Only in It for the Money: Literally their religion. They swear an oath to act in self-interest above all else and the concept of charity seems offensive to them.
• Palette Swap: Subverted — in contrast to the Grineer, different Corpus corps not only have unique color schemes, but also additional units and abilities depending on where they are encountered.
• Proud Merchant Race: They are described as a "Merchant Cult" — they literally worship the concept of profit. They rely on automation and cheap slave labor to do the work, are composed of several smaller companies and are led by a Board of Directors and as of Deadlock Protocol, their original Founder is also leading them too, although he made a splinter faction within the Corpus.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The dismal situation of Fortuna shows that not only are the Corpus not above slavery, but that they treat their slaves horribly, forcing them to take on massive, crippling debts and piling on more and more debts to ensure that their slaves remain under their control.
• Spider Tank: Various Raknoid proxies, deployed by the Corpus on the Orb Vallis region on Venus. Depending on the model, they vary greatly in their arsenal and in size, from the house cat-sized Mites to Humongous Mecha sized Orb Mothers.
• Suicide Attack: Demolyst units and their derivatives, the demolishers, are meant for this - they will run up to a Disruption Conduit, light a fuse and, if not stopped, explode, taking the conduit with them.
• Stealth Pun: They put the Profit in Prophet.
• Theme Naming: Their ship classes take their names from various support structures, from smaller, destroyer-like "Pillar"-class ships and larger "Stanchion" battleships, to the absolutely massive "Obelisk" dreadnaughts, which the wreckage of one apparently covers a large part of Europa from a recent space battle.
• The Remnant: Heavily implied, at least; 'corpus' is an Orokin word, and one of Simaris's files is about a group of refugees calling themselves such fleeing from the Grineer after the fall of the Empire. Hunhow even calls Alad V an Orokin, implying he either isn't aware that the Corpus are entirely separate, or he is aware that they are descendants of the Orokin, or sees absolutely no distinction between the Orokin and the Corpus.
• Villains Out Shopping: Corpus crewmen can be seen in Cetus literally shopping in the market. They are merchants, after all.
• Violation of Common Sense: Oxium Osprey, a drone that is made of valuable resources, namely Oxium (which is lighter than air), almost counts itself as Bling of War. Instead of adding weapons to take advantage of its lessened load^note Take a look at the Scavenger drone, it's rigged to kill itself as it charges at you when it loses its almost non-existent shields. While this keeps you from gathering Oxium all by yourself, anything else to keep this unit from existing is almost nil due to its weak weaponry.
• Weak Turret Gun: Corpus turrets are a double subversion/heavy zig-zag; the turrets themselves are powerful (though inaccurate), and well-armoured whilst they're folded up (to the point of being completely immune to even abilities like Crush or Avalanche), but once deployed they are fairly easy to destroy, and you can easily disable them by shooting out the much more fragile security cameras giving them targeting data.
• We Have Reserves: The board stopped bankrolling Alad V in the Gradivus Dilemma due to the money he was wasting, not the lives he was spending. Given the fact that they mostly rely on robotics and their crewmen are all purpose-bred, it is not hard to see why they throw away so callously their minions.

Rogues

Many Corpus — the Perrin Sequence, the Mycona, Darvo, Sigor Savah — have found themselves defecting from their profit-obsessed lifestyle, finding new ways of life on the fringes of both the Grineer and Corpus empires. This section lists notable individuals who, while born in the Corpus, have their own affiliations.

Darvo Bek

Hey, Tenno! Good to see you!

Voiced by: Ryan Baker

"I'm detecting a large security force heading your way. It's the Gri- no wait it's the Corpus. Definitely the Corpus."

A Corpus merchant who is always eager to take Tenno platinum by any means possible.

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• Arms Dealer: A non-villainous example. It's lampshaded here and here that most of his merchandise are smuggled or stolen.
  Darvo: My competition would be upset if they knew I was selling this stock so cheap. Come to think of it, they would be upset to know I was selling this stock at all... they're probably still looking for it.
  Darvo: I found this great merchandise after it fell off the back of a Corpus shuttle. Actually, to be more precise, the entire back of the shuttle fell off after it took a direct hit from a Formorian. So, not such a lucky day for those guys, heh. But good for you, right?
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Done subtly, he has Corpus letters "SM" on his personal icon, thought to mean "Salesman".
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like Alad V, he easily dismisses the Grineer as "unforgivable" shortly after mentioning his mother. Considering who his father is, it's quite reasonable.
• Despite the Plan: Claims triumphantly at the beginning of the "Ties That Bind" mission that he has disabled the Oxium Hyena prototypes, leaving only regular security to deal with. It comes as no surprise to players when they come back online.
• Foil: To his father, and by extent to Alad V.
  • Compared to the former, he is as friendly but not as bloodthirsty as Ordis and is willing to assist the Tenno instead of working with the Corpus nor the Grineer, even putting himself at risk rather than sitting in a room giving out orders.
  • The latter, while culminate their hatred towards the Grineer, Darvo took a step forward joining with the resistance while retaining his endeavors for profit, but Alad took a step back. See his tropes below.
• Friend in the Black Market: More of an inferred example, since he's a Corpus merchant selling items to the Tenno, even with the occasional special offer, "Darvo's Deals".
• Friendly Enemy:
  • Even before he broke ties with his father and the Board, he never took any active role against the Tenno, and no visible role against the Infested or Grineer; and he's pretty happy to be doing business with open enemies of the Corpus.
  • On the other hand, some Corpus and Grineer authorities seem to be pretty happy to work with the Tenno if it means that the Tenno are on their side, so it may not be all that unusual for a Corpus merchant to work with the Tenno.
  • He also defends the Tenno, verbally at least, during 'Ties that Bind' when Frohd Bek calls them Betrayers, insisting that they're not (but he does not elaborate beyond that).
• Friendly Shopkeeper: Darvo is one of these in contrast to his Corrupt Corporate Executive father, Froid Bek. He's always friendly and grateful to the Tenno for saving his life, offers them free items as part of their login bonuses, and is happy to sell discounted weapons to the Tenno as part of his Darvo Deal. Unfortunately, Power Creep means that many of his deals are overpriced relative to the amount of effort needed to simply grind them up, but that's not entirely his fault.
• Guns Akimbo: Sports a Dual Cestra when holding off enemies for his life.
• Loveable Rogue: He's quite friendly and helpful to the Tenno, despite being a smuggler, arms dealer, black marketeer, and hijacker. He also has a tendency to hide some important details. But he never sells to the Grineer, and he always tries to help out the Tenno.
• Mission Control:
  • Very briefly, in a mission where he hires the Tenno to infiltrate a "ship of his that was not in his possession", to retrieve something of his. It was a ruse to lure out the Stalker and have the Tenno neutralize him on Darvo's behalf.
  • Upon the release of Update 12, it was done again with the "Ties That Bind" mission, wherein players were asked to rescue him from his father, Frohd Bek.
  • Done again in the Blackout Tactical Alert as well, where you redirect abandoned cargo ships for his own profit.
  • Now he takes this up more regularly. After the Tenno rescue Clem, Darvo gives a weekly mission in which the Tenno and Clem run interference for his other agents as they steal goods from the enemy of the week.
• Odd Friendship: Darvo and Clem have a very good rapport, especially considering Grineer/Corpus mutual hatred might as well be genetic in nature at this point.
• Ponzi: A subtle yet benevolent example. He and his operatives actively raid Corpus merchandise and technology in order to obtain his own profit, although the Corpus themselves aren't honest dealerships either.
• Put on a Bus: He disappeared for a while after he put an equipment bundle of the Stalker's equipment on the market. Apparently, Stalker wasn't happy about it. He returns later, after dealing with the Stalker, opening with a market special.
• Really 700 Years Old: Almost one hundred and five years old. By Corpus standards, he's still roughly a teenager.
• Refusal of the Call: Turned down a position on the Board. His father was not pleased, having groomed Darvo for such a position from a young age, and had him kidnapped and put to work on a counter-strategy against the Grineer's impending "Project Tethra" as a result.
• War for Fun and Profit: He cares about the Grineer-Corpus conflict only so far as it may be profitable.
• We Sell Everything:
  • He has his fingers in the market, which sells blueprints and low-end items for credits; and high-end items, premade equipment, and equipment bundles for platinum.
  • He can also take everything, from Prime Components to Common Mods, but merely giving out a rather a fraction of the value. Not that you give all your items away to the Lotus or anything.
• Wham Line: "Nothing personal, father. It never has been. I only work for myself."
  • The entirety of "Ties That Bind" doubles as a Wham Episode, given Warframe's lack of lore up until that point.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Like father like son, apparently.

Sigor Savah

"My name is Sigor Savah, Morphology specialist with Nef Anyo's Venusian terraforming expedition."

— Ghoul Journal Fragment "Augur"

An Ex-Corpus Morphologist who came to the Ostron village of Cetus, seeking out as much information as he could on the Grineer's Ghouls before disappearing; but not before leaving his notes with Konzu. His goal in seeking out information about the Ghouls was to find out whether or not the Grineer managed to use them to dig out the remains of the Khora Warframe, which he believed was on the Plains of Eidolon. Prior to defecting from the Corpus, he was part of the team that discovered Khora's Ace Custom Kavat, Venari, known to them as "Specimen VK-7", and was the only Corpus to befriend her.

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• Aborted Arc: His story was most likely supposed to continue and conclude in a quest that had been planned to be released alongside Khora and allow the players to obtain her. However with the developers eventually deciding to provide a different method of acquisition for her through a new game mode, not releasing any quests for her, his ultimate fate remains unknown and his character arc left hanging.
• Alliterative Name: Sigor Savah.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Prior to his Heel–Face Turn, he notes that business and profit came first before pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge to the Corpus and to him by extension; as a result, he was planning on running a few tests on Specimen VK-7 before selling her off to one of his higher-ups at Anyo Corp and making a killing off of the money he would undoubtedly get from such a sale. Then VK-7 revealed that she was Not Quite Dead...
• Defector from Decadence: He left the Corpus because he developed a conscience regarding Specimen VK-7 once she started to show just how smart she really was.
• Heel–Face Turn: A Corpus scientist who developed a conscience and defected because he befriended an animal who sought him out to revive her master. While he's not really an ally to the Tenno, he ultimately does consider the Ostrons his friends and also calls himself a better man than a scientist.
• Meaningful Echo: His journal entries mention that he is a better scientist than a saboteur when his defense of Specimen VK-7 is botched by Corpus air filters, then conclude with him noting that he is a better man, it turns out, than a scientist.
• The Voice: The Update that introduced him only featured his voice, narrating the Ghoul Journal Fragments you can get as a reward for doing Ghoul Purge bounties.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Once he determines that his coworkers are going to hunt down Specimen VK-7 and kill her, he seals his Heel–Face Turn in by standing between them and her cave and pleading her case, while carrying a bomb filled with a tranquilizer. While his attempt to knock out his former friends with the tranquilizer's aerosol form failed, VK-7 did escape.

The Mycona

See the Colonies page.

Ergo Glast and the Perrin Sequence

A group of renegade Corpus entrepreneur and scientists that have defected from their credit-obsessed lifestyle and have decided to take a much more philanthropic lifestyle.

See the Syndicates page.

The Philantropist

A Corpus renegade who has seemingly eschewed his people's values of greed and profit in favor of helping out orphaned children. However, this is but a facade, as his true goal is to create a weapon more powerful than Warframes, melding his subjects' bodies and minds into an Infested abomination known as the Leviathan.

The Philantropist is the antagonist of the "Ascension Day" animated short, created to promote the release of Styanax.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Presents himself as a kindly and charitable fellow who takes in orphaned children and takes care of them. In truth, he's a Mad Scientist using this nice facade to earn the trust of his subjects so he can use them for his Leviathan project.
• Cult: The Philantropist runs a cult, which serves as a way for him to recruit orphans he can later turn into part of his horrifying experiment. His cult's base has plentiful harvests, earning him the praise and worship of his followers.
• Dirty Coward: Drusus Leverian describes him as this, since he'd rather use someone else to pilot the Leviathan instead of doing it himself. He only does so when the circumstances force him to.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: After taking control of the Leviathan, the Philantropist clearly relishes in his newfound power.
  The Philantropist: "To think I almost wasted this gift on you!"
• Fusion Dance: Merges himself with the Leviathan to fight Styanax. He originally intended for Arya to become its head, but Styanax' arrival forced him to adjust his plans. He would come to severely regret that decision later on.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: A little bit of his black hair sticks out of his helmet, partially covering his right eye and marking him as someone not to be trusted.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The Philantropist is ultimately killed by the Leviathan he created, when Darro, awakened by his sister's voice, decides to fight back. Styanax's Rally Point then empowers the Leviathan's other bodies to do the same, giving Styanax more than enough time to prepare his Final Stand, unleashing a barrage of energy spears that obliterate the Philantropist and put his victims to rest.
• Mad Scientist: The Philantropist is secretly working on the Leviathan, an Infested monstrosity made of the merged bodies of countless victims, with the goal of turning it into a weapon more powerful than Warframes.
• Nightmare Face: When ordering Arya to get into the Leviathan command pod, his face is framed in a way that makes him look truly unhinged. He has an even worse one after his Fusion Dance with the Leviathan.
• Oh, Crap!: He panics when the bodies of his victims regain their senses and turn on him. We then get a close-up of his eye as Styanax readies Final Stand, looking upon his impending doom with utter terror.
• Slasher Smile: Gives a nasty one upon joining with the Leviathan, casting off his Mask of Sanity and revealing himself as the murderous lunatic he is.

High-Ranking Members

Alad V

And now, let me show you the future! Zanuka! KILL!

Voiced by: Kol Crosbie

"You have loyalty issues, Tenno. My Zanuka project will fix that for you!"

The boss of Jupiter. A high-ranking Corpus scientist whose experiments have garnered the attention of major powers in the system, including the Board of Directors and the Tenno he experiments on to create his Zanuka proxies. Drops parts for Valkyr.

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• "Ass" in Ambassador: His title is "Grineer Relations." He frequently uses Fantastic Racism, calling them "test-tube dogs", and his solution to the Grineer's claim that they had Fomorian ships was to suggest laughing in their faces because they clearly couldn't have the ships. The reason why he is an ambassador with the Grineer is most likely because that is what the Corpus thinks of them.
• Bad Boss: Alad V consistently treats his workers as disposable. Although admittedly threatened into it, he conducts horrific experiments on them for the Sentients. His Gas City public announcements encourage workers to ignore any "change" to their friends and co-workers, and inform on anyone who is naturally upset or disturbed by the amalgams. Workers must also memorise an absurd "one hundred thirty-eight employment vows", and can expect to be tested at any moment. Mistakes of all kinds result in sanction, which can be anything from "work therapy, wage garnishment, shock protocols, organ donation, exposure, and... The Floor."
  • In The New War he threatens Veso when the tech expresses worry over breaking fire control from the fleet. On a smaller note, he can't even be bothered to remember the man's name despite multiple corrections.
• Back from the Dead: The big reveal in the "Suspicious Shipments" was that Alad V had survived in the form of Mutalist Alad V. Check out the Infested tropes for more about that form.
• Batman Gambit: Successfully pulls one off when he hands Warden Gharn over to the Wolf of Saturn Six to lure out and capture the latter and use him and his "pack" for his experiments.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of the Hive Mind of the Infestation, which drove him into wanting to unify the Origin System into a Mutalist Empire. He eventually manages to regain control long enough to ask the Tenno for help in creating a cure to free himself permanently. The deal works out for both sides and he's been his old self ever since.
• Butt-Monkey: Alad V has gone through a lot of misfortune — losing the favor of the Corpus Board, getting infested, the Stalker and his acolytes going after him. That said, he brings most of it on himself, by virtue of being Alad V.
• Consummate Professional: His private transmissions in Disruption reveal him to be this when dealing with other Corpus.
• Combat Pragmatist: Plays to his strengths by using Zanuka to fight on his behalf, and defending himself with shields, knock-backs and blinding beams. Later, when directly attacking the Ropalolyst fails he feeds helpful information to the Tenno to undermine the Sentient occupation of his city. This also extends to his ruthless business dealings, where he's positively giddy on tricking a supposed partner into signing a contract "loaded with escape clauses and loopholes".
• Continuity Snarl: With the reshuffle of the solar map, events on Eris are only accessible long after Alad V's appearance in The Second Dream, meaning it's easy to interpret his infestation as happening afterwards when in fact it happened around about the time the Tenno was at Saturn.
  • Now, his Sentient operations on the Jupiter gas mines happen right as a Tenno first gets there, when they happen way at the end of the story quests.
• Cutting Off the Branches: The Gradivus Dilemma had a tough argument and it ends with a majority supporting the Grineer^note To contrast, supporting the Corpus resolves in protecting innocent colonies on Mars. Despite of the choice was claimed to save the Tenno from the Corpus, it was instead revealed that hundreds of Tenno were already delivered to Alad's experimentation.
• The Dandy: His design is based on a futuristic fop — being more of a bureaucrat than a general — and he won't fight the Tenno directly so long as he has robotic proxies.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • The Sentients trick him into one by having Natah approach him in the guise of an old business partner called Regus, giving him a deal that, being the opportunist that he is, Alad thinks he can rig in his favor and trick Regus into handing over all of his assets. By the time Alad realizes he's been had it's too late, with his new "benefactors" now having a stranglehold over him and forcing him to create Amalgams.
  • The Devil in the Wolf's hunt for Gharn. Alad provided him with the opportunity to kill Gharn, but the moment the Wolf's back was turned, Alad turned him and his pack into Amalgams.
• Destination Defenestration: The PS4 trailer has Mag use Pull to throw him out a window.
• Dirty Coward: Defied — unlike Nef Anyo(who is never fought in battle, instead sending Bursas, Orb Mothers, and the Razorback to fight for him) and Frohd Bek (who remains aboard his ship during the Ambulas boss fight), Alad is fought in-person during his assassination mission, and actively supports Zanuka. Notably, his first response to the Sentients demanding the "submission" of his city is to immediately fire at them. Alad attempting to surrender to the Sentients is more a sign of just how strong they Sentients are compared to him than it is of his courage finally failing.
• The Dog Bites Back: On the giving and receiving end of this.
  • After he turned the Wolf into an Amalgam, the latter promptly threw off his shackles and turned on Alad.
  • After being forced into working for the Sentient, he gives the Tenno an opportunity to strike and destroy the Ropalolyst, which the Sentient Natah used to keep him in line.
• Dual Boss: You fight him and Zanuka together, and you can only kill Alad if you take Zanuka down first, as Zanuka will come to Alad's aid and revive him otherwise.
• Dude, Where's My Reward?: Averted both in the "Tubemen Of Regor" and the "Shadow Debt" events, where he hires Tenno to perform a task necessary to save his life. In both cases he pays you fair and square — surprising, considering his reputation. Even better, his main reason for this upfrontness appears to be genuine gratitude, even if he tries to hide it. Granted, that doesn't stop him from remaining indignant and condescending, being incredibly reluctant to actually reward them. Even when they protect him from the Stalker and his Acolytes, he's still a smug prick to them.
• Enemy Mine:
  • Some time after he got himself infested, Alad V asked the Tenno for their assistance in ridding himself of the infested Hive Mind. In exchange for providing the coordinates of Tyl Regor's clone labs, the Tenno would send him Regor's genetic research data so he can synthesize a cure.
  • This allows for his eventual return in The Second Dream, where he offers his help to the Lotus to aid the Tenno's search for Hunhow's body in exchange for a future favor.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He genuinely cares about Zanuka and see it as his pet, imploring you to leave "her" alone if defeated.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Alad V might be an all-around scumbag hated by everyone, but even he knows that the Sentients are too much for him and is willing to work with the Tenno and Lotus, albeit with the promise of a favor from them. This seemingly passed with the Jovian Concord where he starts creating the Amalgams and works in a partnership with Natah, but the Partnership fragments reveal that he thought he was exploiting a former business associate for Tau salvage. The moment he realized that associate was in fact a living Sentient mimic, it was far too late.
• Evil Virtues:
  • Gratitude, of all things — when the Tenno helped him during the Tubemen of Regor and Shadow Debt operations, he made sure they were paid very well for their efforts. This is especially notable for Shadow Debt, as the Tenno had already repaid the favor they owed him for helping them during The Second Dream, meaning he had no obligation to reward them — yet he did.
  • Determination. Alad suffered catastrophic setbacks in the past and was beaten into the ground multiple times, only to claw his way back into the game again and again.
  • Courage. While he fights through proxies, he's usually near the action and never tries to just run away or beg for mercy (even if he whines a lot). The only exception to this is during The New War, and given that the alliance to oppose the Sentients failed completely, this is somewhat understandable.
  • Diligence. Unlike Frohd Bek and Nef Anyo, Alad personally creates all of his products and genuinely seems to understand exactly how they work. While he does ask Veso to make his ship cease fire during The New War, he also notes that his command overrides aren't working, implying he already tried to do so himself.
• Fantastic Racism: Refers to the Grineer as "dogs" and the Tenno as "eyeless". Almost hilarious considering his title of "Grineer Relations" means he's supposed to be a diplomat.
• Flunky Boss: In addition to fighting with Zanuka by his side, MOAs and Osprey drones continuously spawn in the arena during the fight.
• Foil: To Nef Anyo, in many ways.
  • Alad is smug as hell, while Anyo at least appears to be more polite if holier-than-thou. They are also both acts put on for the Tenno; Anyo is the poster boy for Faux Affably Evil and obviously just wants to scam money out of people, while Alad is normally a Consummate Professional who knows how precarious his position is.
  • Alad appears to believe that it is possible for the Corpus (or at least himself) to understand the secrets of the Void and learn how to profit from them, while Anyo preaches a form of worship for the Void and that it can grant favor in return.
  • Alad seems to specialize in biotechnology (given the nature of the Warframes and his experiments with the infested) while Anyo focuses more on robotics (the Bursas, Razorbacks and Orbs).
    • On top of this, Alad seems to do his own research, while Anyo is more a pure businessman who simply has researchers working for him.
  • Even their appearances highlight this: Anyo wears an absolutely ridiculous (and impractical) outfit that is nigh impossible to move in, showing off how he tends to work through manipulation and doesn't need to get his hands dirty. Alad, in contrast, wears a more practical, if no less tacky, body suit/lab coat, showing that, even if he will complain about it, he's willingly to get involved personally when the situation calls for it.
  • Also, Anyo is high on the Corpus social ladder and very successful, while Alad is barely allowed in the Corpus at all after his debacle with the infested.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For Nightwave Series 1, as he purchased prisoners from Saturn Six's warden Gharn to use as guinea pigs in his Sentient Amalgam experiments, leading to the Arc Villain's Prison Riot and rampage to rescue his packmates.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: While he's usually antagonistic toward the Tenno, perfectly willing to cut them up for parts and profit, and the creator of hybridized enemies like Mutalist and Amalgams, he's also the Tenno's most common ally against the Grineer and the Sentients, and displays genuine gratitude for their aid when he gets in over his head with curing his Infestation, repelling Stalker's Acolytes, or sabotaging his forced "partnership" with Natah. And then, once The New War begins and he's stuck on a fleet that's losing a battle against the Sentient, he tries to shut down his ship's weapons and defect to the Sentient, whilst lying over the intercom to the rest of the ship that the battle is going well.
• Heroic Willpower: Definitely not "heroic", and may not be exactly "willpower", but he did manage to fight off Infestation's control over his mind to start looking for the cure. By the time of the "Shadow Debt" event he seems to have made a complete recovery.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Ordis listening on on Corpus communication during Disruption shows a lot of his taunting, smug mannerisms are an act he puts on for the Tenno; with other Corpus, he's extremely professional, to the point, and nervous when the Tenno are around.
  • When he attempts to surrender to the Sentients during The New War, rather than jump into an escape pod and save himself, he instead attempts to power down his ship's weapons, which would spare his ship and, implicitly, his crew. Of course, it's also possible he wants to have collateral on-hand if the Sentients demand some.
• Humiliation Conga: The month of the Gradivus Dilemma was not a good month to be Alad V. First, he kicked off a war between the Grineer and the Corpus by trying to steal Tenno cryopods, and was an abject failure at swaying the Tenno to his side. The board promptly withdraws funding for his war, leaving him in massive debt, and an angry CEO sending the Tenno and Corpus personally after him to collect what's due. The Tenno find him, smash the crap out of Zanuka and free the remaining Tenno, and personally give him a discount on their ammunition supplies. Or possibly throw him into a gas giant, soon to be crushed. And then he was reduced to working with Infested biotech, something the Corpus has an understandable prohibition on working with.
• Hypocrite:
  • Despite refering to the Tenno as "betrayers" with "loyalty" issues, Alad's loyalty is ultimately to himself. He ends up betraying the rest of the Corpus by forcibly breaking fire control from the fleet rather than go down fighting. He is foiled when Veso, visibly disgusted and unable to live with the decision, returns control and enables a last stand.
  • On a lesser note, he has no qualms with tricking a partner into signing a bad contract. Though this comes back to bite him later.
• It's All About Me: The Tubemen of Regor event involves Alad V begging and offering to pay the player to steal data form the Grineer that might cure his infested body. He even says "If you're going to save a life, it should damn well be mine!" This comes to a head in The New War, when he attempts to break fire control from the Corpus fleet and surrender to the Sentients, in order to save his own skin.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In his own words during the Gradivus Dilemma, he finds the Grineer becoming more arrogant and full of themselves as they expand throughout the Origin system so much that they would betray the Corpus themselves someday, which he instead started the war on Mars first, but ended horribly. Frohd Bek learned this the hard way, as the last mission of the Archwing, Councilor Vay Hek himself started an interplanetary war against the Corpus by releasing an entire fleet of ships with components made by the Corpus, such as the Fomorian Cores, which are composed of the Oxium alloy that the Corpus only recently rediscovered.
• Mad Scientist: Alad is the one behind the creation of Zanuka, having experimented on Valkyr to make his robot. He also is the one behind the Amalgams, Corpus crewman and proxies that he experimented on to fuse them with Sentient technology.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Gets a hint of this after dismissing the Tenno as "Betrayers", upon realizing the Lotus had stolen the Moon with the Tenno in it before the Grineer War struck in the Origin system.
• "Not So Different" Remark: One of the things he says of you if you support the Corpus during the Gradivus Dilemma. He gets a little junky, salvaging parts on the Moon much like your average arms-dealer in the Relay.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: While he seems to work with robotics first and foremost, he's also branched out into Infestation biology, the creation of horrific Warframe/robot hybrids made from skinned Valkyrs, and — going by the upcoming Jupiter update — Sentient biotech.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For all his many, many, many faults, Alad is no coward and always faces his problems head on (and backed up by a ton of minions). So when he desperately tries to surrender to the Sentients during The New War, that's when you know just how much of a threat the Sentients are.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: If you support the Grineer against him and the Corpus during the Gradivus Dilemma, he will call you out as hypocrites.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: While his intentions may not be as clear as Darvo's, he is almost cured of the Infestation and is fully aware of the Sentients' destructive potential and their likelihood of destroying all civilizations in the Origin system like they did with the once powerful Orokin empire and forcing him to help the Lotus and the Tenno to reroute the problem.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • His month of abject failure has not had the best effect on his mind — he's reduced to working with Infested biotechnology. This will clearly end well.
  • It ended with Alad trying to create a new Infested empire and becoming Infested himself. Which doesn't qualify as 'ending well'.
  • During Operation: Tubemen of Regor, he regained enough control over himself to ask the Tenno for help pilfering Tyl Regor's research, which he believed would let him develop a cure for the Infestation. Most Tenno ultimately chose to support him over Nef Anyo, who wanted the research destroyed to spite Alad V. Surprisingly enough, it paid off, and Alad has been Infestation-free and sane (by his standards, at least) ever since.
• Smug Snake: Subverted during Disruption. He's taunting and smug even as you muck with his Amalgam project, but Ordis taps into inter-Corpus communication and reveals a far more professional side to his personality — as well as the fact Disruption is playing into his hands; he's not happy with how the Sentients have him over a barrel, so by getting the Tenno to get rid of the Amalgams, it's removing a mistake of his and giving him needed combat data.
• The Starscream: Implied to be the reason why he helps you with the Ropalolyst — without its supervision it'd be easier for him to use his Amalgams for his own profit and leaving the Sentients less control over their cooperation.
  • That said, he never entered that partnership knowing who he'd work for, or how much of his already limited resources it would consume.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Some of his Gas City announcements certainly give off this vibe.

"(sigh) Remember, a class D-7 breathing apparatus is required for outdoor labor. How many times do I have to tell them this?"

• Too Dumb to Live: Has little, if any, interpersonal skills or ability to tell when he's Bullying a Dragon.
• Uncertain Doom: When we last see him canonically, his ship is in the process of being destroyed by Sentients during the opening of The New War. Though given that this is Alad V we're talking about, there's a good chance he's still alive.
• Unexplained Recovery: So... how did he survive after either being repeatedly shot by several Tenno with weapons that are ludicrously overpowered against flesh, or possibly thrown into the high-gravity depths of a gas giant?
• Villainous Valor: Upon discovering he was being used as an Unwitting Pawn by Sentients, he promptly started shooting at them rather than be blackmailed by them; only them decimating his forces and placing the Ropalolyst outside the Gas City to remind him that they could blast it at any time brought him to heel, and even then, he created the Disruption Mission as a way to quietly sabotage their operations.
• Voice of the Legion: He suddenly begins yelling with a reverberating voice after Zanuka is killed in "The Profit" trailer.
• Volcanic Veins: Since The Second Dream, All that remains of Alad's infestation are some glowing pink scars in his left cheek.
• Wild Card: At current moment it's the best way to describe him. After he was effectively expelled from the Corpus, he worked with the Infested, the Sentients, and even calls some favours from the Tenno after his assistance in the Second Dream quest, but owes allegiance to no one. He will deal with whoever it is necessary to deal to gain profit, but ultimately he's out for himself.
• Xanatos Gambit: The Disruption game mode introduced with the Hostile Mergers event lets him come out on top no matter how the Tenno perform against his Amalgams. If the Tenno take them down, he gets data on weaknesses to fix for the next generation. If the Amalgams thwart the Tenno instead... well, he's created something that can stop the Tenno. That said, he hasn't thought through every angle; if the Tenno do well for a prolonged period of time, he'll start panicking about the drain on his resources that he's been using as bait. And even THAT works to his advantage, as destroying the amalgams is his way of getting back at Natah for forcing him into making the Amalgams in the first place.

"The Sergeant"

Orokin secrets cannot remain hidden forever! Start talking!

"Fashion victims about to become murder victims!"

The boss of Phobos^note Formerly Mars before the tileset switch, a Corpus sergeant who has taken to stealing Tenno cryopods for his own ends. Drops blueprints for Mag.^note Was originally known as "Sgt. Nef Anyo" prior to the real Nef Anyo's debut in Operation: False Profit. The characters have now been split.

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• Almighty Janitor: Despite being a Sergeant he has enough influence to both trade Tenno cryopods on the black market and control the Phobos solar rails; these jobs are normally associated with Chairman Alad V and armies of hundreds of Tenno, respectively.
• The Artifact: In the early Beta stage of the game, every boss was a Boss in Mook Clothing that acted as a placeholder until their unique character models could be developed. The Sergeant is a throwback from that era, being a simple re-texture of an existing crewman model with some extra abilities. As of the Ambulas Reborn event, he's the last case of this in the Corpus (the Infested still have the Phorid, who is likewise just a big red Charger). There's also the fact that he can still appear as a boss in Sorties against Nef Anyo, despite now being a completely unrelated character.
• Cold Sniper: The Sergeant uses a Lanka, a Corpus sniper rifle that uses charged plasma projectiles.
• Decomposite Character: Nef Anyo's new design debuted with the False Profit event, but his reworked boss fight wasn't ready yet. Rather than dealing with the side-effects of temporarily removing the Mars boss fight, DE simply kept the boss fight as-is and stripped off the name, resulting in the Sergeant.
• "Get Back Here!" Boss: Is the most fragile boss in the game, and so mostly depends on his cloaking, grenades, and allies.
• Hypocrite: Some of his taunts include mocking the Tenno's fashion sense (while wearing a giant shoebox/trashcan on his head) and challenging them to face him (often while cloaking and running away).
• Large and in Charge: He is inexplicably massive compared to just about everybody, especially other Crewmen.
• King Mook: He looks like any other Corpus except he's really tall and has a black suit.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His visor is usually red. It's switched back and forth in the past, or may appear to be red in the codex but blue in the game; most likely bugs.
• Sergeant Rock: A Corpus crewman that holds the position of sergeant and controls the solar rails of Phobos. Although in combat, he is the weakest boss in the game.
• Useless Useful Stealth: A rare case of this applying to an enemy. Originally, when he cloaked himself, the game would still show an indicator with his position, making it easy to keep hitting him with a Herd-Hitting Attack or melee. This was eventually fixed.

Nef Anyo

Congratulations, Tenno. Just remember: On the Index, nothing stays up forever.

^{Click here to see his full body}

Voiced by: Lucas Schuneman

"Give unto the void, and you will be rewarded a hundred-fold!"

A Corpus plutocrat who struck it rich when he realized he could pull a giant Ponzi scheme on everyone in the solar system. The Lotus caught on, and employed the Tenno to bankrupt him with his own "Void offerings" in Operation: False Profit. He would later return in the Divine Will event, where he challenges everyone to take on his new Razorback drone, and later resurfaces running the Index betting arena. But his first truly big achievement comes when he subjugates and enslaves the Solaris colonies on Venus, having him put large swathes of land and a whole culture of people under his heel for him to exploit.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear if he's really Parvos Granum's biological son or just puffing up a lie to gain more favor with the Corpus. Both Parvos Granum and Grandmother consider him to be Granum's son, but make it clear that it's a moot point. He'll never be accepted as a son by Granum because he's just that lazy and incompetent.
• Arch-Enemy: To Solaris United and the people of Fortuna as a whole, since he's the source of pretty much all their misery.
• Bad Boss: Judging from some of his comments for the Index, the fate of his brokers after they lose their match is really not enviable. Hardly surprising. And then there's his frighteningly callous treatment of the Solaris people in Fortuna. Then you get more details and realize he's even worse! In the Deadlock Protocol quest, he even decides to blow up his own fleet of ships rather than let Parvos' specters run amok on them, while the Tenno he hired to deal with the specters is aboard. To cap it all off, he smarmily has no regrets, as he is no longer there and thus in no personal danger.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Ends up on the receiving end of this. He is the owner of the Index arena and is not above rigging certain matches in his favour. During The Glast Gambit quest, the Tenno use bets in the Index to win from Anyo the lives of colonists he had kidnapped, and succeed after they discreetly remove Nef's rigging from the game and beat his fighters fair and square.
• Believing Their Own Lies:
  • He instigates the Deadlock Protocol to force the Corpus board to take the actions he desires, claims to have found the heir of their founder, and from there escalates to claiming to be said heir. At first, it comes across as a lie of convenience, especially since there's no evidence either way, but as the quest progresses he starts acting as though it's been the truth all along... and gets very, very petulant when the claim is disputed by the founder himself.
  • It's quite possible that he genuinely believes in his own "religion" at this point, too.
• Better the Devil You Know: During the Deadlock Protocol, even though the mission begins with them fighting to keep Nef from becoming Chairman of the Board, Solaris United puts active effort into making sure he stays in power - because as vile, greedy and loathsome Nef may be, his stupidity, shortsightedness and vanity lets the SU work around him. Parvos Granum, who threatens to depose him, is actually competent and knows what he is doing while being an absolutely unpredictable genius who could annihilate Solari United in one swoop. Good thing that Parvos supports them and allows them to join him and his new Board of Directors.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Since Alad V became a more neutral (if no less opportunistic) character, Nef Anyo has stepped up as the most prominent antagonist from the Corpus side of the conflict.
• Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: You can hear broadcasts with his announcements and preachings in Fortuna.
• Con Man: He frames himself as a prophet of the Void who promises prosperity for all if others donate to his Temple of Profit. In reality, he's pocketing the offerings to fund his own power grabs and the development of weapons to use against his enemies, especially the Tenno.
• Dastardly Whiplash: He certainly looks the part, and speaks like it too.
• Devastating Remark: After the Tenno enters the Granum Void and meets Parvos, Nef tries to convince his “father” to honor all of his accomplishments, saying that he did everything in his name. Instead, Parvos starts to tear down all of Nef’s “acomplishments”, saying that he didn’t do anything and is only a lazy man who twisted his tenets of self-reliance. When Parvos asks if Nef really is or even should be his heir, Nef only manages to muster a “No, that must be a different son”, absolutely devastated of the scolding he just received.
• Dirty Coward: While Alad actually fights the Tenno in person and even Frodh who assists his Ambulas from his ship with laser bombarding, Nef is always away from immediate danger and only fights by sending his Bursas robots, his Razorback Armada and his Orb Mothers from on the Orb Vallis. He even left his fleet with all of his Crewmen to die when the Specters of Parvos invaded the ships the Tenno were in.
• The Dreaded: His title alone didn't contribute to his hilarious Ponzi scheme as it strips all of his adversaries for cash, but the resulting project he conducted that created a series of powerful walkers were the ones that are feared which even the Lotus herself warns you about their presence, a Bursa, a type of robot similar to the bipedal MOA but with the twist that they have more weapons and abilities and are equipped with shields to block all weapons from the Tenno and there is several types of Bursas, such as the Denial Bursa, that can knock down the Tenno.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: ...Not quite. The feeling seems to be "mutual antipathy", given that he went through "protracted negotiation" with her to find out who his father was. And it's entirely possible she told him what he wanted to hear to get some of his money and to get him to go away.
• Facial Markings: He has tattoos that invoke an awful mustache and sunken eyes.
• Failed a Spot Check: He doesn't seem to notice most of his "investors" are hostile armed space ninjas. Unfortunately for you, his Bursas don't make the same mistake.
• Faux Affably Evil: His polite, benevolent front isn't fooling anyone. He's just as much of a smug and greedy Corrupt Corporate Executive as the rest of the Board.
  • What truly puts him in this camp is his occasional bursts of pure cruelty. While most of his doings can be written off as him being a greedy, narcissistic man, a few of his comments make it clear he’s enjoying the torment he’s causing.
• Foreshadowing: When trying to extort Roky into decoding the Yareli graphica during "The Waverider", he mentions that the buyer for said graphica is on Deimos. Who is the only person on Deimos who has any connection to the Ventkids? Grandmother, who runs the Deimos K-Drive races.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from being a Crewman sergeant to one of the most powerful members of the Corpus board.
• The Fundamentalist: Nef's talk and his installations around Orb Vallis opens up the Corpus theology a bit. While they worship profit and revere the Void, Nef takes it further by combining his industrial and research facilities into shrines.
• The Gambling Addict: Runs the Index arena, and a good high-stakes bet is one thing that he can't resist.
• Graceful Loser: Subverted. Tenno winning at the Index don't get much of a rise out of him at first, basically shrugging and saying that "The Void giveth, and The Void taketh away" in response (the fact that the sum of this loss amounts for a petty change for him probably helps). Then comes the Glast Gambit, at which point Nef becomes a Sore Loser, happily rigging the Index arena to win by default when it becomes clear that the Tenno can easily beat him at his own game. When they hack the Index and force him not to cheat, he even accuses Glast and the Tenno of being the cheaters.
• Greed: Nef's most glaring character trait is his obsession with money, and his willingness to commit any atrocity for the sake of further enriching himself.
• Hated by All: The Solaris hate him with the burning intensity of a thousand suns, and it's implied by one Solaris that other Corpus want him to fail. Considering that he's nearly destroyed the impossibly valuable Orb Vallis twice through the outbreak of Thermia fractures and destroying a terraforming tower, and one of his experiments (Exploiter Orb) very nearly destroys Fortuna, this is... not an unreasonable assessment. Unsurprisingly, even his 'father' Parvos Granum hates him.
• Hate Sink: Nef's smarmy and arrogant demeanor, Greed that makes even other Corpus disdain him, Blatant Lies, being the responsible of the creation of the incredibly annoying Bursas proxies as well of sending his Razorback Armada on relays periodically has made him one of the most easily hateable characters of all the game, so much so that most of the players sided with Alad V against him in Tubemen of Regor event — the same Alad V who most players outright hated for abducting and dissecting Tennos^note To be fair, the abduction is lore-based and Alad V is simply Cutting Off the Branches. And then Fortuna dropped. By the Void. More specifically, Nef has in one fell swoop become a character who commits civil-rights atrocities on a daily basis, casually forces his workers into Sadistic Choices and horrific punishment, and his smarm has been kicked up a notch. Probably, one of his worst actions shown in the game is after he tries to gain the leadership of the entirety of the Corpus by saying that he is the biological son of Parvos Granum, the founder of the Corpus. When Nef does meet Parvos, he immediately tries to convince him to honor all of his crimes. When Parvos rightfully refuses to support someone as lazy and exploitative as Nef, he throws a tantrum and initiates the self-destruct sequence on his own Corpus fleet, aboard which are both the Tenno he literally just made a truce with, the Solaris he agreed to let them save in exchange and all of his crewmen, leaving a massive amount of his own Mooks to die, all out of complete spite because Parvos won’t help him, all while Nef himself is safely away from the danger. All in all, Nef is the worst of the Corpus given form, voice and a personality.
• Hit Them in the Pocketbook: Since Nef has yet to appear in person, all the Tenno's efforts to oppose him have been centered here.
  • They sabotage his Bursas to drain his bank accounts during Operation False Profit.
  • They then destroy his Razorback proxies before they can get too many investors.
  • The player's Tenno personally sabotages his efforts with both the Solaris and the Mycona - for the former, they aid the Solaris in trying to destroy their terraforming tower unless he meets their demands (and outright admit that Anyo would regard poverty as A Fate Worse Than Death), while for the latter, the Operator sabotages his cheating software and then wins both the Mycona and a fortune from him in the Index.
• I Just Want to Be Special: While he exemplifies the typical Corpus greed, the thought of having Ergo Glast's holdings and prestige during The Glast Gambit practically makes him salivate. In the Deadlock Protocol he almost immediately (and almost desperately) takes to calling himself Parvos' heir when his mother claims he was the result of a secret project to pass on Parvos Granum's genes.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Nef can probably walk around, but he'll have a hard time sitting down or getting through doors.◊ A drawing of him in The Glast Gambit shows that there are holes for him to properly move his arms and legs.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Upon trying to win the favor of Parvos Granum by claiming to their biological son in a bid to become head of the Corpus board, the latter returns from his imprisonment in the god-damned Void to rip into Nef's self-esteem, declaring him to be a complete failure in the eyes of the original Corpus philosophy.
• Incompetence, Inc.: Anyo Corp, mostly due to his own short-sighted imbecility and pointlessly cruel treatment of the workers in Fortuna. There's a heavy undertone to certain Solaris missions that even if they hate the man they still rely on him for survival, so they're hiring Tenno — sworn enemies of the Corpus — to save him (and likely the Solaris themselves) from his own incompetence. With what we're shown of his operations and how often they've risked massive property damage and loss of life, it's a wonder how they're able to turn a profit at all!
• Irony: Considers the Yareli graphica to be worthless once his buyer gets cold feet. Grandmother, the buyer in question, reveals that the graphica contains the blueprints for Yareli within it, meaning Nef gave up something that would likely be immeasureably valuable to the rest of the Corpus because he just saw it as dumb art.
• Kick the Dog:
  • In the Glast Gambit, he leaves Mycona helpless against the Infestation, and kidnaps several children all to get the attention of Glast. The Tenno respond in kind.
  • In the Deadlock Protocol, he kidnaps members of Fortuna to throw into the Granum Void as lab mice to find out what's on the other side. Their survival is irrelevant, as he just wants the information from their data feeds.
  • In The Waverider, he extorts Roky into trying to unlock the Yareli graphica (comic) by offering to sell the Ventkids shares to the vents of Fortuna, where they live. When the buyer for said graphica instead decides to purchase the controlling shares to Fortuna's vents, he tells Ventkids they should salvage Roky's parts and use the money to pay their new land lady. Fortunately for the Ventkids, the buyer turns out to be Grandmother of the Entrati, who allows them to stay in the vents (and viewed the orignal Yarelli as a personnal friend).
• Lost Orphaned Royalty: Claims to have found the heir of Parvos Granum when he initiates the Deadlock Protocol. Or rather, he claims to be said heir himself, with his birth mother having taken part in a secret program to produce a genetic heir. However truthful this is is never elaborated upon, though he seems to believe it for himself.
• Never My Fault: He ignores the Solaris engineers and activates the Orokin terraforming tower before it is ready. When it predictably fails, he orders the fifty least efficient workers in Fortuna repossessed.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His decision to quickly dump large amounts of coolant under Venus' surface and harvest surfacing Thermia for quick profit ended up providing the Tenno with the means to destroy one of his own Orb Mothers.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Despite being a regular recurring antagonist Nef does not get his hands dirty, preferring to rely on custom drones and agents.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: His initial appearances did not do much to make people respect him — first he runs a Ponzi scheme with his bursas which ends with him being tricked in return by the Tenno, then he vainly boasts about his invincible Razorbacks that got scrapped in record time. The Glast Gambit makes him slightly more serious by turning him into a callous child kidnapper, but the way he is dealt with thrashes all of that newly-found cred. And then Fortuna happens, where he suddenly upgrades to a full-fledged dictator. He subjugates the people of Solaris and forces them into slave labor. He keeps them in check with crippling debts, inhuman working conditions. armed reposession/kill squads and orbital bombardments. Under his reign Corpus has people mortgage their own body parts (up to and including heads), to be reposessed and replaced with crude boxy cybernetics, making them look barely human. And all that done for no other reason than profit and his own vanity.
  • And if taking over Orb Vallis and Fortuna weren't enough, he developed the Raknoids to patrol and protect his newfound holdings, including the Orb Mothers, an entirely new class of robot that incorporates Sentient technology.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: His treatment of the workers in Solaris is bad enough, but when players get more details of his operations it becomes clear that Anyo is a complete moron who embodies the worst of brain-dead corporate management and has to be saved from his own incompetence almost as often as Solaris busts up his operations. To wit:
  • He orders an Orokin cooling tower reactivated after the people whose entire job revolves around knowing how to get it working again tell him that this will break it, then blames Solaris when this is exactly what happens. In case you haven't noticed by this point, Orokin constructs are highly-advanced Lost Technology that the Corpus as a whole dedicate themselves to scavenging and reverse-engineering, and this particular construct (a coolant tower) would have let Anyo exploit even more of Venus' untapped resources for profit if he'd just listened to the experts. His actions cost Anyo Corp an irreplaceable asset that would have made him a proverbial mint, and his petulant lashing out at Solaris afterward not only serves zero useful purpose, but convinces Eudico to reactivate Vox Solaris and start fighting him again!
  • Then there's the Buried Debts event, in which Anyo's aggressive terraforming and mining causes Thermia fractures, which cause extreme tectonic damage to the Orb Vallis. Eudico points out that Nef could fix it, but he's too near-sighted and focused on harvesting the thermia for immediate profit to worry about the Vallis exploding under his damn feet.
  • The back half of the Deadlock Protocol quest is this. He contracts the Tenno to help him beat Granum's specters, ransoming the Solaris hostages for their cooperation. However, after giving them a blueprint for the Xoris glaive, he's completely unhelpful; the Tenno must collect the parts and assemble the glaive for themselves by raiding Corpus vaults, and must continue killing his Treasurers to access the Granum Void, with his own crews trying to kill the Tenno the whole way. The worst is that when the Tenno finally arrive kitted to fight the Specters after these delays, Nef orders his entire fleet to self-destruct with his contracted "allies" aboard, just to spite Granum.
  • What's more, him freeing Granum backfires spectacularly on his entire corporate empire. Now free, Granum immediately creates a splinter faction that many Corpus join, meaning that on top of everything else Nef lost a huge amount of employees, ships, and resources.
• Pun: He claims to be the "prophet of profit". Following the title, the name of the event he's tied to is called "Operation: False Profit".
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Near the end of The Glast Gambit, he outright cheats by having the goals insta-kill any Tenno trying to cash in their points and is able to get away with it because he's the one running the games in the first place.
• Self-Made Man: In one of his canned Fortuna announcements, he claims to have once been a debtor who worked his way up to where he is now. Whether that's true or not is unclear, but his entire system is designed to keep anyone else from doing the same thing.
• Shout-Out: To Mistborn's Lord Ruler; a hyper religious Evil Overlord who controls a slave race on a harsh, volcanic world and threatens them with nightmarish punishments, and treats the planet like his own personal MegaCorp.
• Shrine to Self: He had a skyscraper-sized statue of himself built on the plains of Venus.
• Sinister Minister: His in-universe advertising campaign is clearly styled after televangelists. His new design is intended to embody the Corpus religion of greed.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Fortuna's residents are trapped in debt-bondage, forced to spend their whole lives working off the debts they and they family have accumulated; massive interest rates ensure that this is an impossible task, making them into Nef's slaves for life. As a result, he's portrayed as one of the vilest characters in the narrative.
• Smug Snake: About a year after the whole False Profit incident, Nef comes back with a prototype Razorback proxy. He boastingly claims it's impervious to absolutely everything and dares every Tenno in existence and his rivals in the Corpus to try and destroy it; the theory is that he can stream footage of the battle to his potential investors who were on the fence about funding him. Thirty minutes later, Razorback is a pile of scrap metal on the floor and his own Bursa robots are shooting at him.
• Snake Oil Salesman: His sales pitch and Dastardly Whiplash appearance also evoke the image of a greasy peddler of a fake or nonexistent product.
• Sucksessor: Regardless of if his claim to being Granum's real son is true or not, Parvos makes it clear that he's disappointed with Nef and the modern Corpus as a whole, specifically citing Nef as self-serving and inefficient.
• Villainous Breakdown: Three so far, and each time it's cathartic as hell.
  • Goes through an incredibly satisfying one at the end of the Glast Gambit quest, after Ergo Glast baits him into losing an exorbitant fortune in a bet Nef thought was rigged in his favour.
  • He has another one in the Vox Solaris quest when his important investors' demonstration into his reclaimed terraforming tech is interrupted by the Tenno on the orders of Solaris United, as he desperately tries to pretend everything is fine until he finally loses his spine and starts begging a labor union head for mercy. He's left with the investors angrily booing him and leaving, unimpressed by his lack of spine and inability to control Solaris.
  • He has another in the Deadlock Protocol, after being verbally thrashed by Parvos Granum himself, the founder of the Corpus.
• Weird Beard: Part of his helmet. Corpus characters continuously scroll down it. Concept art indicates it goes all the way down to his knees.
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": He sends out Taxmen to "repossess" any Solaris who fall too deeply into debt. This means not only taking back their mechanical parts, but taking any biological parts if their debts are too deep. But he doesn't kill anyone... unfortunately, for brain-shelved Solaris.

Frohd Bek

Actualize... Synergy... Synergize! Growth... Profit... GROFIT!

"You can't hide, ride, or bribe your way out of this, Alad. You've been downsized and your fat head is about to suffer cutbacks. Literal cutbacks."

The current Chairman of the Corpus Board and the de facto leader of the Corpus. Started out as just another board member, albeit one with a distinct hatred for Alad V. He is the father of Darvo who left the Corpus to pursue his own ventures rather than being a higher-up. He is the main antagonist of the Ambulas Reborn where he uses the Animo system to upgrade the Ambulas proxies with battle learning capabilities.

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• Arch-Enemy: Has a very personal enmity with Ergo Glast from the Perrin Sequence. Bek was once Glast's mentor and is outraged by his former student's newfound charity, while Glast detests Bek's perversion of his Animo processor.
• Background Boss: The Ambulas boss fight consists of shipping sabotaged Ambulas proxies to his ship while he fires his artillery at the loading area. The fight ends when his ship burns.
• The Chessmaster: Hires the Tenno to clear out the Infestation on his fleet of spaceships in return for telling them where Alad V is hiding — at which point they pop over and kill him, which is precisely what Bek wanted anyway.
• Enemy Civil War: From the perspective of the Tenno, Bek is engaged in this with Alad V.
• Enemy Mine: Perfectly willing to work with the Tenno if it gets him closer to taking down Alad V — not to mention he convinces the Tenno to do the lion's share of the work getting his ships cleared of the Infestation. From the opposite perspective, Lotus outright says that she doesn't trust him, but she trusts his hatred for Alad V.
• Ermine Cape Effect: Surprisingly averted. He is a very high-ranking member of the Corpus, at least on par if not more influential and high-standing than Alad V or Nef Anyo. Despite that he wears the same outfit used by regular Corpus crewmen unlike Nef and Alad, who wear opulent outfits showing off their wealth and status. In his words, he wears like a regular crewmen to show everyone that he started from humble beginnings and that he worked all the way to the top.
  • In the auction scene from the "The Prophet" trailer, most of the Corpus elite dress like crewmen.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Claims to have started "from nothing" and may have been a simple Crewman before working his way to the top until he became the chairman of the Board.
• Evil Cripple: The guy has a severe breathing problem. When we first met him he spoke in a very slow, almost whisper-like voice and generally sounded as if he had trouble taking air in. Lately his voice has changed to something more normal, if still very raspy and breathy. Turns out "they rebuilt his larynx".
• Evil Mentor: He was the mentor to Ergo Glast of the Perrin Sequence in the past.
• Hypocrite: How does working with the Grineer and throwing out your already aggravated subordinates/Chairman out of the board can make you win the war for your own faction, and telling that your own son is not making profits better than you?
• Klingon Promotion: His dialogue clearly indicates he's shooting for this outcome towards Alad. To replace his seat for his son, Darvo.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Had this coming in the final mission of Archwing, as he finds out that Project Tethra, the same project that has been making Fomorian ships for the Grineer, has been used against the Corpus themselves under the command of Councilor Vay Hek.
• Parental Hypocrisy: He does not approve of Darvo's course in life, despite Darvo clearly making a lot of platinum from his new ventures.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Outright states that the Tenno are "too dangerous and too profitable to provoke." This doesn't last forever, though. After becoming Chairman and completing his Ambulas project, he has no compunction about demonstrating the lethality of his new robots on Tenno volunteers.
• Punny Name:
  • His first name looks suspiciously similar to "fraud"... but it's a total misnomer, as he's not been particularly fraudulent. Perhaps not entirely honest with his motives, but not hugely underhanded either.
  • First, he gets the Tenno to help clean up infested Corpus ships in exchange for Alad's location. The Tenno then effectively put Alad out of the picture for him.
  • Later, he finds a rogue arm of the Corpus that have also been conducting research on a new type of Infested spore. So he gets the Tenno to 'clean up' the mess, conveniently eliminating the rogue scientists and their army's command structure in the process.
• Really 700 Years Old: As Darvo's father, he could be several centuries old.
• The Resenter: Shades of this. In full effect when the Tenno threaten the Ambulas Reborn project.
• Self-Made Man: Likes to think of himself as such, citing that he has started low in the Corpus hierarchy and climbed all the way to the top through his own hard work. Ergo Glast calls him out on that, telling that he never actually did any work himself, but rather took credit for the work of others and got rich from that.
• Too Dumb to Live: Much more pronounced than Alad V, not only does he keep telling the Tenno about his deviant plans to thwart them, he also works for the fascist, racist Grineer empire during the previous updates. Until Councilor Vay Hek uses all his assets against him.
• Uncertain Doom: It's implied that he dies along with the Animo Project after you send enough hacked Ambulas models directly into his ship, as his transmission for an escape pod is immediately cut-off. However, it's revealed in the Jovian Concord that Frohd survived his brush with the Tenno and continues to lead the Corpus Board.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Speaks slowly and quietly, with a very hoarse voice. Voldemort-esque. Ambulas Reborn gives him a notably different, more natural-sounding if still raspy voice. Apparently his larynx was rebuilt. Now he speaks in an accent very similar to his son's.
• You Are Grounded!: He locked up Darvo in a high-security Corpus ship, guarded by Oxium Hyenas.

Vala Glarios

"Sequester that Railjack for Parvos!"

Voiced By: Damhnait Doyle

"Captain Vala Glarios. So pleased to meet you. I should have expected Tenno rats among the flotsam."

A Corpus captain searching for the Tempestarii. Proud, determined, and ruthless to her enemies, she will stop at nothing to capture or destroy the ghost ship sailing the proxima.

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• The Ahab: Due to the Tempestarii destroying Lucretia Platform, killing her sisters and leaving her stranded for days while surrounded by their mutilated remains, she wants nothing but to "rip that ship to pieces and eat its heart" in retribution, in her own words. It's best shown with her reaction upon seeing the ship again.
  Vala: I see you. You bastard... I SEE YOU!
• Anti-Villain: She's loyal to Parvos Granum instead of the Board, and the main reason she's antagonistic towards the Tenno is due to them siding with the Tempestarii and refusing to let her have her revenge.
• Arc Villain: For "Call of the Tempestarii".
• Batman Gambit: She tails the Tenno as they go after the Tempestarii, knowing full well that they'd try to stop the ship peacefully. She swoops in to capture it with a Tractor Beam once the Tenno to enter the Tempestarii and Sevagoth's Shadow powers down.
• Black Eyes of Evil: In Call of the Tempestarii, the way she's lit makes her eyes look jet-black with luminescent white pupils. In the Sisters of Parvos cutscene, her eyes look a bit more normal.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Where do we begin.
  • Vala is the first Corpus antagonist to have explicit combat experience, and is a Frontline General as opposed to being a Dirty Coward or a Mad Scientist.
  • Vala is the first quest villain to be an original character, rather than someone already integrated into the game's lore.
  • Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, whereas all other Warframe villains usually oppose the Tenno for selfish or alien reasons, Vala has sympathetic reasons for being in conflict with the Tenno.
• Dying Curse: When the Tempestarii "unleashes the storm", Vala curses the Tenno before she's sucked into the Void. It's subverted in that she doesn't die, but the curse became truly real with Parvos' help, in the form of the Sisters of Parvos, the Corpus counterpart of the Kuva Liches.
  Vala: SISTERS! HEAR ME!! Hound them to Hell and back! By the Hand of Parvos himself!
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She was apparently very close to her crewmates, who ended up being killed when a Void Storm struck the platform they were working on. Said storm was created by the Tempestarii when it returned to the Origin System. Capturing or destroying the ship is her way of avenging them. The Stinger for "Call of the Tempestarii" also implies that she might be related to Parvos Granum.
• Frontline General: Her personal Pillar hounds the Tenno for much of "Call of the Tempestarii".
• It's Personal: The Tempestarii destroyed Lucretia Platform, the dock where she was working, killing all of her sisters. She's trying to find and capture it as revenge.
• Leitmotif: "Sleeping in the Cold Below", sung by Vala herself.
• Not Quite Dead: Despite being sucked into the Void with her ship, she survives and somehow ends up in the Granum Void. The last scene shows what appears to be Parvos Granum greeting her.
• Number Two: As of "Sister of Parvos", she's become this to the newly returned Parvos Granum.
• Pirate Song: Her Leitmotif, "Sleeping in the Cold Below", is styled after old sea shanties.
• Power Floats: Not her, but her ponytail. It has magnetic coils holding it together, which makes it float behind her head.
• Shout-Out: Her facial features and head-gear make her resemble the Librarian from Halo.
• The Smurfette Principle: So far, she is the first named female Corpus in the game.
• The Unfought: At the end of "Call of the Tempestarii", the titular ship fires off a projectile that opens a Void portal, destroying Vala's Pillar and sucking her into the Void. This, however, does not kill her, but strands her in the Granum Void, where Parvos rescues her.

Parvos Granum (Unmarked Spoilers!)

Voiced by: Ed Kelly

"We are Desire. We are Corpus."

"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."

— Excerpt from The Tenets Fragment "We Are Corpus"

The founder of the Corpus Empire before the fall of the Orokin. Once a lowly farmer and tired of working day after day for a measly pay, he went to the city of the Orokin and managed to steal a gem from them, later, he gained a lot of credits by exchanging said gem as a collateral and from there, Parvos started a loaning service that would be so successful that managed to found the Corpus and start more businesses and ventures. Rumor has it he was assassinated by his own board of directors after they got tired of him and his rules of self-reliance, but thanks to Protea, his Warframe bodyguard that the Orokin gave to him as part of a deal, he managed to survive the assassination attempt but was stuck in the Void for who knows how long. Until the Tenno sets him free after Nef tries to get the position of chairman of the Corpus when he tries to convince everyone that he is the son of Parvos. "The Deadlock Protocol" update retrofits all ships in the Corpus fleet to include monuments to his name, such as the shrines of his golden hand that after being activated with a Granum Crown, will send you to the Granum Void where you have to kill as many Specters as possible in the smallest amount of time. The Granum Void is where you obtain the parts for Protea.

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• Affably Evil: Parvos not only knows how to put up charming air, he appears to treat his trusted subordinates and prospective candidates to those subordinates with genuine respect. He heaps praise on the Tenno and Solaris United for their bravery and ability to fend for themselves, while ripping into Nef Anyo's incompetence and gluttony. Now he has created a splinter faction within the Corpus to remodel it so that it is more akin to his ideals of self-reliance while also creating a group of elite soldiers known as the Sisters of Parvos.
• An Arm and a Leg: He lost his left hand and had it replaced with one of solid gold. The Granum Monuments are giant golden hands built to reflect this. He lost it due to stealing gems from the Orokin.
• Ambition Is Evil: "Always move forward" is his creed. Parvos is never content with what he has and keeps pushing for more, reaching for ever-higher summits and exploiting anyone he needs to in order to get there.
• Anti-Villain: While he means well since he is trying to reform the Corpus into a much more benevolent and self-reliant version of itself, is genuinely at Benevolent Boss who treats his workers well and would rather help the Solaris who worked their asses off to death while the elite Corpus got fat with their work, offering the Tenno, Eudico and the Business sits on his new Board of Directors, Parvos’ methods are incredibly morally dubious at best and highly corrupting at worst. He claims in his tenets that manipulating and being deceptive are valid ways of being a businessmen and that being sentimentally attached to someone is bad for businesses.
• Arc Words: "Desire". Parvos uses this word a lot in his dialogues, asking what the Tenno desires. He puts a lot of emphasis to this word and that if you desire something in your life, you should grab it as hard as you can and take it.
• Artificial Limbs: One of his most striking features is his golden left hand, which he commissioned after swiping a number of valuable Rubedo jewels and getting his left hand cut off by the Orokin for it.
• And I Must Scream: The assassination attempt would have meant the end for him, if not for Protea's time manipulation. Unfortunately this led to him being trapped in the Granum Void, preserved by the Protea Specter, with no means of escape.
• Badass Creed: In addition to the tenets he wrote while founding the Corpus, Parvos has a certain phrase about the inevitability of progress and how he'll continue to invest and expand his enterprise despite the threat of the Orokin: "Fire. Fusion. Void.", referring to the greatest technological advancements in the history of the Origin System. He recites it while mentioning how he incinerated the Warframe assault force sent after his head with a massive bomb under his lab.
• Batman Gambit: Having realized the potential ramifications of his discovery of the Specter Particle, Parvos rigged his lab to explode with a massive eighty mega-therm charge when the Orokin inevitably came knocking down his door with a Warframe assault force, incinerating the Warframes that came to arrest and/or kill him and steal his Specter Particle technology.
• Benevolent Boss:
  • Parvos is genuinely this when stacked up against the other Corpus Board members. He plans to restructure the Corpus so that they rely more on honest hard work to succeed and offers both the Tenno and Solaris United a seat in his new board to help him in the process.
  • During Call of the Tempestarii, the last scene is of him personally rescuing Vala, a captain aligned with him, when she is stranded in the Granum Void.
  • When looking for new Sisters of Parvos, he deliberately selects for women abused and neglected by the Corpus in general, going by his quotes. Even when they don't make the cut and rejects the failed Sisters, he still finds honest work for them to do, which is a mundane job in filing but it’s still probably a big step up from whatever they were doing before.
• Berserk Button: Idleness. Being lazy, contentious, sentimental and/or incompetent is an easy way to get Parvos’ disapproval and wrath as seen with Nef after he tries to make Parvos honor his dirty deeds, to which Parvos tears down all of his actions and scolds Nef for his idleness.
• Card-Carrying Villain: And he somehow manages to be subtle about this at the same time. The fact that he has a code of ethics in itself makes him appear better than the rest of the Corpus, but his tenets, which he openly declares, state the usefulness of deception and manipulation. Effectively, Parvos admits that he is a Manipulative Bastard who will lie through his teeth to you in order to get what he wants while he will never care about you in the slightest.
• The Chessmaster: All of the events of the Deadlock Protocol quest are the Tenno and Corpus playing into Parvos' hands, all to reactivate Protea, determinate the current state of the Corpus, and make contact with the Tenno and Vox Solaris.
  • His arrangement with Drusus Leverian may be another example of this. He may be gracious enough to give Drusus a chance to pay off his loan by excavating Deimos relics - or he's intentionally playing Drusus and threatens him with foreclosure to put pressure on him and get him (and the Tenno) to produce valuable artifacts for him, making him obtain the Entrati artifacts he can study and bolster his splinter faction of the Corpus without having Parvos waste any of his personal assets.
• The Commandments: When Parvos was a lowly farmer, harvesting grains for the Orokin for a very low pay, a mysterious voice started to talk to him one day and started to tell him advices that would make him the founder of the Corpus. This advices would later become his eleven tenets to which, he would teach the people of how to make themselves as rich as he became.
  1. Fear not poverty. Poverty is the bitter soil in which sweet desire blossoms.
  2. Fortune despises the idle man. Stasis is death. Always move forward.
  3. Be envious. Covet. Then take what you desire.
  4. Deception is the sword of wisdom. Be wise.
  5. Beware the idle man that would lull you back into idleness.
  6. Contentment is idleness. Desire inspires action. Nurture all desires.
  7. Money begets money.
  8. Charity is power. More charity is more power.
  9. Shun sentimentality. It is a weakness that binds the idle man.
  10. Fulfill your desires and others will follow.
  11. Ours is the grasping golden hand. We are desire. We are Corpus.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Zig-zagged. Parvos is a ruthless business shark, willing to trample over other people in pursuit of his ambitions, but he is not cruel enough to make people try to not stop him and gives them the chance to rise up, preferring to help Solaris United than the elite Corpus, being also a Benevolent Boss who would rather treat his employees with care than disrespect. While he also approves the usage of deception and manipulation, he is also true to the word to the contracts he signs as he lets Drusus pay the loan he gave to him.
• Determinator: A list of the things that failed to stop Parvos Granum:
  • Getting his hand chopped off for theft, and receiving no medical treatment.
  • Internal organ damage from swallowing a molten stolen gemstone.
  • Having his lab attacked by a Warframe assault force. He blew them all to pieces with his lab's Self-Destruct Mechanism.
  • An assassination attempt that destroyed his ship, which lead to...
  • Being stranded in the Void. Notably, that last one merely slowed him down.
    • Even time rewinding just as he's about to escape the Void doesn't do much to him, as he still gets out while the fleet's invasion and destruction is undone.
• Divine Assistance: Back when he was a lowly farmer, Parvos was one day spoken by a voice that encouraged him to desire more and take the wealth that was owed to him. The advices of the voice would later become his tenets, which he would later use to teach the masses and preach of how desire should be used. He described this voice as the voice of Desire.It is heavily implied that the voice Parvos heard was the Man in the Wall, since the Corpus has a heavy emphasis on worshipping the Void as well in order to get more fortune.
• The Dreaded: The Corpus seem fairly divided on their opinion of Granum; they either worship him as a sort of quasi-deity/founder of the Corpus, or they're scared shitless of him as a sort of vengeful boogeyman. The Board is certainly unhappy that he returned to the realspace and are making several plans to stop him. Railjack crew members of the Perrin Sequence will say they have seen Parvos in the Void while they sound very scared, even their descriptions sometimes says that when they were younger, they got nightmares after hearing the stories of the Founder. Solaris United plays the trope straight, being scared shitless of him due to his unpredictable standing with him. To SU, Nef Anyo, at least, was predictable, but Parvos Granum is a complete enigma—and happens to hold legions more sway over the Corpus than Anyo ever did. On top of that, Parvos is a genius and a real mastermind unlike the bumbling Nef, so he could do real damage against the Solaris. Good thing Parvos supports the Solaris rather than the Corpus.
• Egopolis: After the death of his father and wanting to end the slavery of the Orokin, Parvos errected the city of Corposium over the land his family used to live, wanting to bring people like him, people who desired more, to use their intellect and make money through ventures.
• Emperor Scientist: Not only is he the Founder of the entire Corpus Empire, he is a brilliant businessmen and scientist, owning many successful businesses and through his ventures, discovering the Specter Particle that the Tenno uses daily, even making the Xoris glaive to trap those Particles.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: His tenet of "Charity is power. More charity is more power" tells that its good to do good things because it benefits you. This tenet has a darker meaning when Parvos gives to Drusus a unfair loan that would force the latter to pay him back with Leverian museum, using charity in order to empower and enrich himself.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: A strong believer in this; he thinks that anyone with Desire - the dream to better oneself and improve one's wealth - should be given as much opportunity as reasonably possible to obtain it. It's for this reason he respects and supports Solaris United and Vox Solaris, the workers and slaves, more than he does his "fellows" on the Corpus Board of Directors.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He had a father and a brother who he genuinely cared for (though he admits to thinking of his brother as naive Dumb Muscle in the intro to Sisters of Parvos), and he seems quite fond of his Tenno bodyguard, Protea.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He absolutely loathes what the Corpus has become without his guidance and hates their obsession with wealth and elitism, and makes it clear that if he cannot change their ways, he'll start over with a new board and allow Eudico and Biz seats on it.
  • He is a self-admitted deceiver, but he does follow the letter of contracts he signs - which, in one case, allows Drusus Leverian to invoke a clause that lets him stall the foreclosure of his loan and keep his museum.
  • Another aspect of him is that he hates slavery, being a former slave himself to the Orokin and had to collect grains for them despite the work injured him and his community of farmers constantly for a low pay.
• Evil Old Folks: As well as being a Cool Old Guy. A charming old fellow on the surface, but a ruthless crafty schemer at his core, he's been around from long before the Orokin fall. As ruthless as he is, Parvos is benevolent enough to give Solaris United the chance to rise up against Nef, giving both Eudico and Biz sits on his new Board of Directors while giving Corpus women who are abused and neglected the chance to become his Sisters and serve a greater purpose. He praises the Tenno, Eudico and the Business for their diligence and self-reliance and spits the name of the elite Corpus like Nef for being exactly the very thing why Parvos hated about the Orokin, enslavers who give unfair debts to people.
• Evil Virtues:
  • Parvos is the epitome of Diligence - he is a true example of a Self-Made Man who had started from the very bottom, worked his way to the top and never rested on his laurels even after he got there. If it weren't for his ruthless and exploitative ethics he'd be an admirable figure.
  • Another virtue he exemplifies is Camaraderie - Parvos treats his subordinates well and knows how to inspire genuine loyalty.
• Fantastic Racism: Judging how he belittles Drusus and implying his nature as a Cephalon, it seems that Parvos isn’t very nice to Cephalons, no idea why.
• Foil: To The Twin Queens and Ergo Glast.
  • Both are figures from the Orokin era and survived into the present day, but while the Queens did so intentionally through use of Orokin continuity, Parvos was instead trapped within the Void for centuries and only escaped due to accidental actions by the Corpus.
    • The Twins Queens were members of the Orokin Elite, while Parvos was born as a farmer.
    • The Twins Queens are loved by the Grineer only due to propaganda and genetic conditioning, while it's implied the Corpus followed Parvos out of genuine loyalty due to him being a Benevolent Boss as well as respect for his talents.
    • The Twins Queens look like humanoid worms due to transferring their minds into Grineer bodies that are suffering from cloning degradation, while Parvos looks quite good for his age (and it's possible he's actually older than the Queens).
    • The Twin Queens are horrible to their underlings, while Parvos is an Affably Evil Benevolent Boss.
  • Both Parvos and Ergo are more benevolent and better versions of the Corpus and both have plans to restructure it in a more benevolent version of itself. But while Parvos does charity because he believes that it will bring more profit to him, Ergo does it out of the kindness of his heart, using his wealth to help people in need due to his altruistic nature.
• Fiction 500: He singlehandedly founded an entire civilization with the funds he raised as a businessman prior to being lost to the Void. Eudico and Biz fear that if he recognizes Nef as his successor, the entire Corpus Board would have to follow him because of the clout and riches behind Parvos' name.
• Good Capitalism, Evil Capitalism: Parvos is a more realistically written case of an evil capitalist. Compared to the rest of the Corpus he's not stupidly greedy and does not aim for profit for its own sake, but rather strives to obtain money as a means to pursue more and more daring and grand ambitions and projects. He also espouses the virtue of hard work, which forms the main basis of his conflict with the Corpus - Parvos loathes that the current Corpus leaders get fat off the profits and work of other people, without doing anything to earn their wealth themselves. However, his agenda is ultimately selfish (he makes money for himself, not for the sake of his society or other people) and he is guided by his very manipulative and exploitative code of ethics, which leads him to subjugate and control other people in pursuit of his goals anyway. This makes him a Foil to Ergo Glast, who conducts his business in a strictly ethical matter with the end goal of bringing shared prosperity to everyone, and still managed to be a very successfull good capitalist.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For Corpus railjack missions, including during Call of the Tempestarii. The captains and crews of the ships you face are Granum loyalists, acting either on his orders or defending his interests.
• Greed: His defining characteristic along with his diligence. He has made a conscious choice to turn Greed into his life philosophy, and strives to earn more money and obtain new assets and things he doesn't have yet out of pure principle.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Zig-zagged. Somehow overlaps this with Corrupt Corporate Executive, he is rather willing to lie and manipulate and trample on people to get what he wants, but he also prefers to obtain money through honest work, disdaining the current state of the Corpus for profiting from the works of others. He will also follow the rules set in his contracts no matter if that will hurt him, like how he gave back Drusus his Leverian Museum despite him losing an important asset that he could have used it to study its artifacts and get his splinter faction stronger.
• Hypocrite: He dislikes sentimentality, but the reason Sisters of Parvos are called that is because he desired a Cool Big Sis in his youth who was smarter than his Dumb Muscle brother, but just as trustworthy and reliable. That said, he will coldly shrug off the loss of any Sister who's slain by the Tenno, so he seems to have sentimentality only for the successful^note He will show genuine annoyance if the Tenno defeat a Rank 5 Sister, adding credence to this point of view.
• Idle Rich: Discussed. He despises those who reap the spoils of others' work, verbally eviscerating Nef for twisting his tenets into a philosophy of sloth and exploitation. Parvos himself is an inversion of this trope, constantly seeking new ways to make his money and assets put into work and make even more money.
• I Gave My Word: Parvos follows to the letter the conditions his contracts has and backs down when Drusus pays him back his loan, to which Parvos gives back the Leverian with no trouble.
• I Have No Son!: He makes it quite clear to Nef that, even if Anyo was his "son", he by no means considers Anyo's narcissism, sloth and petty abuse to be worthy traits of his heir.
• Irony: Corpus treasurers zealously guard Granum Crown, a currency that bears his name, from "idle thieves" even at the cost of their lives. Granum founded the Corpus by investing the funds he obtained from stealing rubedo from the Orokin. On the other hand, you really have to try to kill the Treasurers given their inherent (steep!) damage reduction and short timer before they teleport away, so you're not exactly "idle" at the time, and claming it does require you Desire it heavily.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Modern day Corpus makes him look good by comparison but make no mistake - Parvos Granum is no less villainous than the organization which sprung from his ideals, since he is very willing to lie and manipulate everyone in his vicinity to achieve his goals, he just happens to be more fairer than the modern Corpus and would rather rely on honest work than profiting from other people’s work.
• Leaking Can of Evil: While Parvos was imprisioned in the Granum Void he could not leave, but he still had a way to observe what was happening in the real world. As a result, he was rather well-informed about affairs in the Origin System.
• Loan Shark: Part of his backstory involves making large sums of money from loans, although it's not confirmed if he gave honest interest rates or ruinous ones. He certainly gives the latter in Dante Unbound when he sets up Drusus Leverian with an exploitative loan and tries to take Drusus's entire museum as collateral, which could give a much darker meaning to his tenet "Charity is power".
• Made of Iron: Against all odds, Parvos survived the loss of his hand to the Orokin as well as the burns he suffered from swallowing a molten gemstone. Then he goes back to the city he stole the gemstome from the next day to use as collateral for a loan. He also survives the explosion of his ship after the Board betrays him, but this one happens thanks to Protea.
• Macguffin: During Dante Unbound, Parvos gives a exploitative loan to Drusus Leverian, the owner of the Leverian museum in order to make Drusus pay him back with his museum as collateral. In order to pay his loan back, he asks the Tenno for help by going into the depths of Deimos and find Entrati artifacts and treasures, specifically the ones from Albrecht, to pay Parvos back. When Drusus asks when will Parvos have enough, he says that he wants a specific artifact that “speaks to him”. Whatever Parvos is searching in the depths of Deimos, it seems its something that could help him to take over the Corpus or at least boost his splinter faction of the Corpus in strength.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "Small Grain" in Latin, referring to his humble beginnings as a simple farmer before becoming the father of Corpus society.
• Non-Action Guy: Whether it is by choice or otherwise, but Parvos does not fight himself, letting his specters, and later Sisters as well as his personal Protea Warframe act as his enforcers and protectors. Justified with the fact that he is now a old frail man with no real means to defend himself and has to rely on his bodyguards to fight for him.
• Our Founder: The Corpus venerates him as a God due to being the Founder of the Corpus. The remastered Corpus Ship tile sets include statues dedicated to him and shrines of his golden hand.
• Pet the Dog: Despite manipulating the Tenno into helping him escape from the time prison and pitting the Protea specter against them he holds a soft spot for Protea and is genuinely grateful for her saving his life, and laments that she was turned into a specter when she overextended her powers to save him. He even offers a sit to Solaris United, who are overexploited to death by Nef in his new Board of Directors and give them the chance to be free of their debts.
• Pragmatic Villainy: The bread and butter of Parvos’ way of living and doing businesses. He is devoid of campy or cartoony elements that can be found in other Corpus villains like Nef Anyo. Nor does he go out of his way to kick puppies or antagonise people around him like Alad V and instead puts up a very charming facade, realising that genuinely good treatment ensures genuine loyalty. He also does not spend his money on self-aggrandising frivolities, instead putting his assets to practical use.
• Really 700 Years Old: He was born during the golden age of the Orokin Empire, several millenia before the current times. And while he spent much of his time trapped in the timeless Void, it is implied he'd been active for a very long time before his betrayal and imprisonment.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • Unlike the rest of the Corpus, Parvos isn't blinded by Greed, and in fact based the original Corpus on ideals of self-reliance. When he sees the modern state of the Corpus, he acknowledges that it may be time for a new board... and offers Eudico, Biz, and the Tenno seats on it.
  • Notably, he treats the threat from the Tau and the Sentients very seriously, and is disappointed with the Corpus seeing how they failed to better prepare for them.
  • He lets Drusus try to pay his loan back with the help of the Tenno, following the rule of the deal where the contracted can pay off their debt in case they have enough money to pay him back, giving back his Leverian museum as result after the Tenno pays him with Entrati artifacts.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: As he is well-spoken, intelligent, and experienced, the one he gives to Nef Anyo upon the latter bragging about being Parvos' biological offspring and therefore the Corpus heir is a blistering series of insults and tear-downs.
  Parvos Granum: I have watched you. Monuments to narcissism. Demanding others sweat in your stead. Gorging upon that upon which you have not earned. Watched... as you claimed for yourself my teachings of self-reliance, perverting them into a flaccid philosophy of sloth. Of... Idleness. Is that you, my son?
  Nef Anyo:(chastised and sounds like he is in the verge of crying) No, that must be a different son.
  Parvos Granum: You know nothing, falling short as you do of every ideal that I value. Your words, your efforts, are the model of inadequacy. I called you, Nef Anyo, but I do not need you. I need... them.
• Red Right Hand: His most defining aspect of his appearance is his prosthetic gold hand on his left arm.
• Refuge in Audacity: He stole gems off an Orokin gate, had his hand chopped off - marking him as a thief - and upon managing to cough up the single rubidium stone he'd swallowed while trying to escape, he immediately went back to the same city to take out a loan with the stolen gem as collateral. How did the Orokin didn't kill him for trying to get money from a stolen gem? No idea but they let this one pass.
• Rich Genius: Like the majority of the Corpus, he was as much a scientist as a businessman. He discovered the Specter Particles and technology that even Tenno regularly use to mimic their load outs or enemies, even developing the Xoris, a glaive that is designed to harvest the Specter Particles to deal great damage. He unleashes his own Specters to devastating effect on Nef's fleet. The Business even notes that his level of invention puts him in an unexpected level of genius. And despite being locked outside of time for who-knows-how-long, he - unlike Nef Anyo - very quickly figures out who's leading Solaris United, namedropping Eudico and The Business, as though they don't have enough to worry about.
• Self-Made Man: Started off a poor farmer who lost his hand for stealing from the Orokin, but in the process managed to steal an incredibly valuable rubedo gem that was worth over ten generations of his normal pay grade. From there, he started a loaning service and several other businesses that got so successful that he was able to transform his farm into Corposium, the first Corpus city, and himself into a Rich Genius.
• Sibling Rivalry: Downplayed, but while he genuinely cared for his brother, he viewed Cladius as naïve, stubborn and overly trusting of the Orokin, and often wished he would listen to Parvos' own advice, as Parvos thought that together, they could make up for each other's deficiencies.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: He seems to believe this, having born in a family of dirty poor farmers, he was in a very young age, put to work in the fields over long hours under the scorching sun, wounding himself over the years as he grew up. This was exactly why he hated the Orokin so much, the slavery he and countless people had to go through convinced him to found the Corpus and attempt to end the slavery of the Orokin. This is also why he hates the modern Corpus so much, they became exactly the very thing Parvos tried to end when founding the Corpus.
• Tragic Villain: For all of Parvos’ ruthless and cruel behavior over the System, his origins definitely is very sad. During the times of the Orokin Empire, Parvos was born in a family of farmers who worked 24/7, collecting grains in the fields and paying a quota to their golden masters. The work made he and his family extremely injured and left them in a horrible health condition, and to add more salt to the injury, the Orokin paid them incredibly bad and not only did they do this to his family, but to hundreds of other farmer families. One day, tired of his low position in society and motivated by a mysterious voice, he went to the nearest Orokin city and started to stole gems from them, convinced he was only taking what he was owed, only for the guards to trap him and cut off his left hand. But he managed to swallow a rubedo gem and dragged himself away back to home, where his brother Cladius bemoaned him for leaving them. He felt guilt because of this but the voice told him to spit the gem he swallowed and ransom it for money as a collateral. With that money, he started to give his fellow farmers loans and started his own business where he would become insanely rich. But despite all the money he had, Parvos couldn’t save his father, who died working in the same field he used to live in. Both he and Cladius mourned for his death, but now, more determined to end the slavery the Orokin made them all languish, he builds over the field they used to live and despite the protest of his brother, Corposium, a city where he would invite other people like him - people who wanted more when they had nothing - to try and use their intelligence and gain money through honest ventures. But not even his tenets would help him, as the Board he relied on, wanting to gain money through means Parvos unapproved of, set a trap and overcharged the Void drives of the ship he was in, only surviving thanks to Protea, the Warframe bodyguard he got from a deal with the Orokin, used her time manipulation abilities to protect him from the explotion. But not only did his bodyguard, whom he cared for, slowly became a Specter of herself, he saw from his own space of the Void how without him the Corpus slowly became no better than the Orokin he despised were, slavers that overexploited people with no chances to ever rise up like how he did. No wonder why Parvos is so ruthless, he believes that the Corpus must have a radical change for them to truly reform for the better. He considers the Corpus he built as his own son and he is truly in pain of what they have all become without his guidance, suggesting he might as well kill them all to make road to a new better Corpus.
  Parvos Granum: Perhaps, the rot is too deep. Perhaps, the father should abandon his children. Perhaps, it’s time for a new philosophy.
• Übermensch: When Parvos had his realisation and formed his commandments, he came up with his own moral code and system of values, rejecting the lot fate had dealt him, and since then lived his life his own way ignoring the rules and conventions of society at large. He discarded the Orokin notion that he had only one station in life that he was not allowed to change and sought to improve it, and he also did away with the idea that you shouldn't lie and lead people on.
• Villain Respect: After his escape from the Void he extends an invitation to Vox Solaris and the Tenno to join his new board of directors, recognising their skills and talents.
• Villains Never Lie: Implicitely averted. His commandments even state that it is wise to be deceptive, indicating that Parvos can and will lie to you. As a result, things he says about himself probably need to be taken with a grain of salt.
• Walking Spoiler: His fate is one for the Deadlock Protocol quest.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Parvos is freed from his prison in the Void, he sends a message to the Tenno that he is preparing to reform the Corpus from head to toe in order to make it more of his ideals and because of the impending threat of the Sentients. When the New War happens, Parvos is nowhere to be seen, not even making a single appearance for the whole quest despite saying he would prepare the Corpus from the Sentients. Off-screen, he apparently recruits the Corpus crews that the Tenno Railjacks fight. He does however, re-appear during the Angels of the Zariman, planning to take over the Zariman 10-0 for his own goals and fighting the Grineer Worm Queen for the control of the colonization ship. He also makes a return in Dante Unbound, where he plans to take over the Leverian as collateral in order to study its artifacts after Drusus fails to pay back an unfair loan he gave to the curator, knowing that Drusus wouldn’t be able to pay him back and would take over the Leverian with ease.
• Wild Card: Parvos' goals are very clear, but his relationship to the modern-day Corpus is unclear. He scares the shit out of Solaris United, because at least Anyo, greedy corporate bastard that he is, is at least predictable, but Parvos is a completely Outside-Context Problem that SU isn't even sure how to handle.^*Or even if they should, since Granum has shown himself not opposed to actually offering SU seats on his council. That, and he figured out the true identity of Vox Solaris and The Business within seconds. Towards the Tenno, he has shown an equal willingness to diplomacy, whilst still working against them directly; probably because of his being hounded by Warframes in the past. Vala Glarios, in her Leitmotif, describes him as such:
  There's a man on high
  With the Devil in his eye
  And a golden hand, I'm told
  It can hurt you, it can hold you
  He can kick you or console you
  When you're Sleeping In The Cold Below
• Xanatos Gambit: Executes one in Deadlock Protocol. Once his Void pocket is breached, he begins sending out his spectres into the real world, planning to take over the Corpus fleet where his portals are located. However, after the Tenno subdue his spectres, it turns out Granum himself has already fled the Void and is on the loose, using the spectres invasion as a distraction. With the fleet or without, one way or another he's free.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He is affable and supportive with his subordinates - but only for as long as they perform to his specifications. If they fail or disappoint him (like with failed Sisters candidate or when you defeat a Sister) he discards them without a second thought.

Sisters of Parvos (Unmarked Spoilers!)

"Sisters! Below, below,
We're going where the winds don't blow!
Yes, we're all bound down to the deep
And we'll all be sleeping in the cold below, below,
Sleeping in the cold below."

"So... in my youth, I often imagined I had another sibling. A specter of sorts... A sister. And in my mind, she and I - oh how we would conspire... great schemes, risk-trades, rapacious plots. And should I ever find myself... back at the trough. Penniless. Betrayed. Rich, only in enemies... She'd be at my side, axe in hand."

— Parvos Granum

A sisterhood composed of abused and neglected Corpus women who have sworn fealty to Parvos Granum after he chooses them to become part of the sisterhood, volunteering themselves even at risk of death. They have undergone a process similar to the Kuva Liches working under the Twin Queens, granting them immense power and a feuding rivalry with the Tenno and Warframe that killed her.

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• Ace Custom: They wield special versions of Corpus weapons known as the Tenet weapons. These feature modified stats and effects compared to the originals but with overall increased power. Interestingly, most of them are able to fold up into a briefcase-shaped form to reflect the business obsession of the Corpus. In addition, the Sisters also have a few Tenet weapon designs unique to them, namely the Tenet Envoy that fires rockets that can be guided by the wielder when aimed, the Tenet Spirex railgun pistol, and the Tenet Diplos dual machine pistols.
• Action Pet: The Sisters are always accompanied by their modular Hounds, whom you slay and deliver a Parazon kill to in order to collect murmurs to discover the Sister's weakness.
• Amazon Brigade: Unlike the Kuva Liches, Parvos only recruits Corpus women to become his Sisters.
• Ambiguously Bi: They can flirt with the Tenno regardless of their gender.
• Bandit Mook: Like the Kuva Liches, missions in areas where a Sister has political influence result in said Sister stealing some of the mission rewards; the only way to get them is to defeat the Sister.
• Cool Big Sis: What they are supposed to be for Parvos. In his childhood, he wanted a smart and strong sister he could rely on because his brother was a Dumb Muscle that was to naïve and trusting to the Orokin.
• Custom Uniform: The Sisters' appearance is always personalized.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Just like the Kuva Liches, when they are finally defeated, the Tenno has to choose whether the Sister is spared or executed. If spared, you don't get their Ace Custom weapon, but they'll occasionally show up to help you during missions. With the right upgrade, they can be assigned to your Railjack crew as defenders.
• Elite Mook: They were low-ranked and abused Corpus women until they are chosen by Vala Glarios and are given Warframe abilities and the ability to survive fatal injuries. Additionally, they have "Hounds" to populate their territory, which fit this role more closely: Hounds are RobotDogs that require a Finishing Move to kill.
• Evil Counterpart: They are essentially Parvos’ Corpus answer to the Warframes, possessing a form of immortality and their own versions of Warframe powers.
• Evil Is Petty: They’re immortal supersoldiers who work in Parvos’ name and will conquer large swaths of the solar system, and relentlessly oppose the player until they're defeated. How? By stealing a fraction of your mission rewards and taunting you about it on the "mission success" screen. Gameplay and Story Segregation might be in play, but the fact that you get all of these rewards back when you finally defeat the Sister implies that they aren't even doing anything with what they steal: they're just taking it to mess with you.
• Heel–Face Turn: Sparing one after having them dead to rights will have them join the Tenno's side to reclaim their lost honor. It is also revealed that they still work under Parvo's command but now don't pursue the Tenno.
• Hot-Blooded: Folksy Sisters are quite emotional, and will go apeshit on you if you piss them off.
  Angry Folksy Sister (after killing a Tenno): I have you! I have you! I HAVE YOU!! I HAVE YOUUU!!!
• Ms. Fanservice: An unusual example, while their level of beauty may depending on the player's own view, their dialogue can be surprisingly flirtatious or contain an innuendo or two, much to the player's surprise.
• The Smurfette Principle: Collectively, they are the only female Corpus bosses in the game, and the only female Corpus of note.
• Thanatos Gambit: Like Kuva Liches, striking them down without the proper series of Requiem Mods will only make them stronger and allow them to copy another Warframe ability.
• Unusable Enemy Equipment: Averted, as they will drop whatever Tenet weapon they're carrying if finally killed, personalized with their name and elemental bonus. Played straight if you spare them, as they'll keep the weapon.
• Villainous Crush: When converted, Sisters with the "Nervous" personality type seem to be contemplating asking you out, while Sisters with the "Folksy" personality are outright flirting with you.

Special Corpus Units

Ambulas

Offensive system conclusion: Enemy combustion.

"This is the future: Power. Precision. Prestige! The pinnacle of the war-smith's art!"

— Frohd Bek

The boss of Pluto. An upscaled Moa-like proxy, funded by Frohd Bek, that uses the advanced Animo AI. Ergo Glast recruits the Tenno to defeat the proxies and put a stop to Animo's growth. Drops blueprints for Trinity.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Not yet, but it has a networked learning A.I. As such, Ergo Glast his true creator fears that the Corpus might share the fate of the Orokin.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Ergo expresses sorrow for the destruction Animo system that was used on the Ambulas robots, seeing what used to be his greatest invention being reduced to another war machine for the Corpus to exploit on.
• Degraded Boss: An interesting case, as rather than happening during the game's completion, it occurred during the game's development. The original Ambulas followed the typical boss pattern, where you have to clear levels of its region before reaching its own level, where you fight it. The new Ambulas can be found on "regular" levels first, and needs to be defeated multiple times before you can move onto the "boss" level. In the actual boss battle the Ambulas itself plays a secondary role, and the main focus of the fight is using the destroyed Ambulas proxies to take out a larger threat in a Puzzle Boss way. Plus, the proxies you fight on the "boss" level are no different from the ones you met before, ultimately making the Ambulas more like an afterthought in its own boss battle.
• Flunky Boss: Inverted. Almost every mission on Pluto triggers an event where Frohd would send an Ambulas model to hunt you down.
• King Mook: To the Moas and the Bursas models. It even has enough weapons to make Zanuka look tame.
• My Greatest Failure: The Animo project was built by Ergo Glast, the leader of the Perrin Sequence, but only to be taken by Frohd Bek in order to further expand his control over most of the Corpus proxies. You get to destroy it and Frohd Bek’s ship along with it. Frodh survives this assasination attempt however, living to see another day and continuing to lead the mainstream Corpus.
• Odd Name Out: Isn't named after an animal. The Reborn version is apparently equipped with an Animo processor, a networked A.I. capable of learning.
• Palette Swap: The Profit-Taker Orb has two red-colored Terra Ambulas as subordinates.
• Shockwave Stomp: The Ambulas can perform a series of stomps that work similar to a Shockwave Moa's attack, creating a ring that knocks down players in a large area. Previous versions would also create a persistent Ring of Fire.
• Trojan Horse: Serves as this against its own creator, Frohd Bek, when Tenno reprogram Ambulas units before they are transported off to his ship to activate and destroy it from the inside.
• Wolfpack Boss: While not sent in full groups like the Hyena Pack, Ambulas drones pop out moments after their destroyed copies are towed away for repairs, forcing you to fight them continuously. After the first is defeated they start coming two at a time.

The Jackal, the Lynx, and Razorback

Trivial threat detected.

Threat weakness identified. Arming: Osprey

Analysis complete. (Player’s name)=UNBELIEVER

"Prototype engagement test: Ready. Tenno destruction analytics: Recording."

The bosses of Venus, Orokin Sabotage, and the periodic Razorback Armada event respectively, these Proxies are some of the deadliest Corpus inventions yet. Their multiple powerful weapon systems, heavy shields, and robust construction all come together to make them a considerable threat to the Tenno. The Jackal drops blueprints for Rhino.

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• Advancing Boss of Doom: As of Update 18, the Razorback has become the Corpus equivalent to the Grineer's Balor Fomorians, as when their control reaches a certain threshold, the Corpus unleash an entire Razorback Armada and sics it on a Relay. Unlike the Balor Formorians, however, the Armadas don't actually destroy the Relays if they reach them, instead "merely" taking them over for the Corpus.
• Anti-Frustration Features: As a Puzzle Boss that appears early on, Jackal can present quite the drain on a new player's ammo reserves. Fortunately, a broken overhead conveyer rail will drop crates that break when they hit the ground, providing a constant, if sporadic, source of supplies.
• Bait-and-Switch: Post Update 28, initiating the fight with the Jackal activates an elevator at the center of its arena, revealing....a Moa, which begins starting up. As the Lotus notes that she was expecting it to be bigger, the real Jackal promptly drops down from the ceiling, crushing the Moa, and roars at the Tenno.
• Decomposite Character: The Hyena Pack (see below) were created to replace the Jackal-class Hyena as the boss of Neptune. Rather than remove the old Hyena entirely they renamed it the Lynx, gave it some new tricks, and sent it to guard the Corpus Void Keys in the Void Sabotage mission.
• Degraded Boss: Jackals show up as regular enemies on the Orb Vallis once the alert goes high enough. Fortunately, they lack their weakpoint mechanic and will go down to enough fire like any other enemy.
• Drone Deployer: Lynx can shoot out remote turret guns and special Shield Drones.
• Energy Weapon: Uniquely among Corpus forces, this is averted. Aside from the Lynx' turrets, all of their attacks are either kinetic or explosive in nature. Finally Played Straight in Update 28 for the Jackal, which gains a new laser wall attack as part of its rework.
• Final Boss: A Sentient-controlled Jackal is the final opponent of Veso's section of The New War.
• Final-Exam Boss: The Jackal Veso fights at the end of his segment of The New War tests everything the player has learned regarding their minions — disabling its legs can be accelerate by ordering the Striker MOA to focus fire on one leg, doing the same when it goes into laser wall mode can prevent the proxy from even activating the wall, its disabled form must be hit by the Breacher MOA's self destruct to take off a health bar, and the electric field it generates for the latter half of the fight requires you to use your Osprey to shield the Breacher MOA when it goes in for the killing blow.
• Flunky Boss: Jackal has Mine Ospreys that spawn in from ports in the walls. Lynx has its turrets and Ospreys, as well as whatever enemies spawn in alongside it. Razorback has respawning Sniper Crewmen and Bursas on balconies overlooking the arena.
• Mini-Boss: An inactive Lynx appears in the middle of one Grineer Spy vault. If you trip the alarm it'll wake up and you'll be forced to fight it.
• Not His Sled: Players used to the original Jackal are in for a rude awakening when they encounter it following Update 28 - he's gained many new attacks, and the old strategy of hiding from his missile barrage by using the pillars in his arena is no longer as useful, because a. the missile barrage was replaced with a laser grid, and b. said grid destroys the pillars after a few runs.
• Palette Swap: The Jackal and Lynx share the same model, but the Jackal is larger and yellow, while the Lynx is smaller with a teal and black paint job. Orb Vallis Jackals are black and gray. The Razorback is an exception, incorporating parts of the Bursa and Zanuka designs.
• Puzzle Boss:
  • The Jackal's shields render its main body completely impervious to damage. Its legs, however, are not, and taking out one of them will knock the Jackal off-balance, rendering it vulnerable.
  • The Razorback lacks even that weakness, but it is still vulnerable to precisely one thing: the attacks of its own Bursa flunkies. Defeating it requires first hacking open the pens holding the Bursas, then hacking the Bursas themselves to fire on the Razorback's legs and open it up to the Tenno's attacks.
  • The Jackal fought at the end of Veso's section of The New War is mostly the same as the one fought on Venus, but with a few added steps - once it starts using its laser grid attack, you have to shoot it to take down its still active shields (which can be massively sped up using a Striker MOA), after which you need to hit its downed form with a Breacher MOA. This has to be done twice, and the second time has the Jackal electrify the floor, necessitating you to protect the breacher MOA with your shield osprey lest it explode before reaching its target.
• Religious Robot: The Razorback seems to follow the doctrines of Nef’s cult to the Void. Justified, since the Razorback is a proxie made from Nef’s ventures.
• Shockwave Stomp: The Jackal can use the Shockwave MOA's stomp attack.
• Spider Tank: They are quadrupedal attack robots.
• Stuff Blowing Up: The Jackal has two attacks based around explosives: a burst of timed grenades that cover a large area in front of it, and a volley of homing missiles that it will start using at 50% health.
• Took a Level in Badass: The Jackal was completely reworked for update 28, which gave it extra attacks and a new mechanic requiring it to be hit four times with the Parazon before it is defeated.
• Underestimating Badassery: They will make statements such as "Trivial threat detected".
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Anyone who has not yet mastered Warframe's Combat Parkour system is in for a rude awakening when they meet Jackal — many of its can only be evaded through usage of bullet jumps and wall running.
• Warm-Up Boss: While a Wake-Up Call Boss for those who have yet to master Combat Parkour, the Jackal is also an introduction to the usage of the Parazon for "Mercy" finishers - it can only be defeated by using the Parazon on it after its laser wall attack finishes, and needs to have this done four times to kill it, but the Jackal does not get back up until after a "Mercy" attack is performed on it. This serves as practice for fighting the Kuva Liches later on, who also need to be finished off with the Parazon, but only provide a limited window of opportunity to be subjected to a "Mercy" before getting back up.

The Raptors

Synthesizing Attack Patterns: Tactics generated.

"Analyzing Threat Intelligence: Under-developed."

The boss of Europa. Flying proxies assembled deep beneath the wreckage-littered surface of Jupiter's icy moon, the Lotus sends the Tenno to destroy their manufactory. Drops blueprints for Nova.

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• Beam Spam: Raptor RV favors this fighting style.
• Death from Above: They fly in the air and fire upon the Tenno from high above them.
• Degraded Boss: The Terra Raptor SX is a regular enemy on the Orb Vallis that appears at high alert levels.
• Drone Deployer: Raptor MT will spawn special Nemes RT drones. Terra Raptor SX will deploy a Hyena variant (Yes, this means that one Degraded Boss has the ability to deploy another).
• "Get Back Here!" Boss: Raptor is the first boss in Warframe with the ability to fly. Upon release, bugs in its AI often used this ability to flee the arena in which it is spawned, flying onto the high cliffs surrounding the arena and taking pot-shots at players from impossible-to-reach areas with its rockets (where even sniping it down would completely deny the player any loot), or even flying clear across the map (off of it, sometimes) to avoid players. Thankfully, this has since been patched out. The irony of said bugs is that the frame most capable of reaching him in such cases- Nova and her Wormhole- is the very frame whose blueprints Raptor drops.
• King Mook: It's a giant Osprey drone. However, it's downplayed as of The Silver Grove; they are still giant Osprey drones, but are clearly a different model, styled after the Bursa.
• Palette Swap: The reworked Raptors all share the same model in different colors.
• Resurrective Immortality: Killing off a Raptor will only spawn another right after you destroyed it. Throwing their cores in the factory shafts where they spawn is the only way to destroy the factory that builds them and the Raptors themselves for good.
• Speaking Simlish: They speak a very high pitched Corpus dialect.
• Suddenly Voiced: Their rework, that also gave them their voice, came with no prior announcement.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Its primary attack method is to unleash a volley of rockets capable of one-shotting players, while it also occasionally stoops down to drop landmines. Thematically fitting, given that it drops the parts for the Nova warframe. Now Raptor NS' main way of fighting.
• Underestimating Badassery: Much like the Jackal, the Raptors are constantly throwing out dismissive taunts.

The Hyena Pack

The Pack is watching you.

"The Pack grows excited. We have been waiting for this."

The combined boss of Neptune. New prototypes for the Hyena proxy funded by Frohd Bek that specialize in hunting in packs. Originally a special boss fight for the Ties That Bind story event. They drop parts for Loki.

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• Degraded Boss: Four new Hyena variants appear as regular enemies on the Orb Vallis, where they can be summoned as reinforcements by certain other Terra Corpus units. Corpus Disruption missions also feature Hyenas as a Demolisher unit.
• Dual Boss: If their Assassination mission is undertaken by a solo player, a random two of the Hyenas will be fought instead of the full pack of four.
• Elemental Powers: The Oxium Hyena Pack shares the distinct abilities of the Elemental-based Warframes, such as Frost, Ember, Volt and Rhino.
• Elite Mook: Hyena NG has been used as a semi-common enemy in the Hyena Facility Tactical Alert and a Proxy Rebellion event.
• Head Swap: The Oxium Hyenas take their general shape, agility, AI, and basic attacks from Zanuka, and their heads from the Jackal (and by extension the old Hyena).
• Heinous Hyena: The name "Hyena" certainly doesn't conjure images of a friendly robot. The Hyena proxies sadistically taunt the players on the way to their boss arena and use group tactics to attempt to overwhelm the Tenno.
• Informed Attribute: Before the Update 12 rework the so-called "Hyena Pack" consisted of a single proxy, despite its name and the Lotus describing it as being designed to hunt in packs.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Spotted hyenas are known to use group tactics when hunting in order to take down large prey. The Hyena proxies fight as a Wolfpack Boss, using numbers as their strength.
  • Each has the chemical symbol for a different element or compound, reflective of their abilities. The ice-wielding Hyena is LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen, which is liquid at low temperatures); the fire-wielding Hyena is NG (Nitroglycerin, an explosive compound); the electricity-wielding Hyena is Th (Thorium, named after Thor); and the shrapnel-firing Hyena is Pb (Lead, which is commonly used in bullets).
• Palette Swap: The entire Hyena Pack share the same models, with four different paint jobs.
• Revision: Oxium Hyenas are the new versions of the previous model of Hyena proxy.
  Darvo: Faster, meaner, deadlier than before. An excellent product, really.
• Took a Level in Badass: Oxium Hyenas, replacing Jackal variants, are even more agile, and have more anti-Tenno capabilities.
• Wolfpack Boss: The Hyena Pack comprises up to four Hyena proxies, each with a different set of abilities and matching paint job.

The Zanuka Project

Zanuka... KILL!

The Zanuka Hunter

"Let me introduce you to my latest line of robotics... hybridized with Warframe components!"

—Alad V, "The Profit" Trailer

Thanks to Alad V's Zanuka Project, the Corpus have access to a set of deadly proxies using parts of Warframes, created through experimentation on captured Tenno. The original Zanuka field test model is kept by Alad V himself as a sort of robot dog and bodyguard, and comes as a package deal with Alad on Jupiter. As if that wasn't bad enough, an upgraded Zanuka Hunter (formerly "The Harvester") is deployed by Alad V to hunt down and capture Tenno who support the Grineer in Invasion missions, to be used as subjects for more Zanuka Project proxies.

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• Anti-Magic: The Zanuka Hunter has a projectile version of the Stalker's Dispel ability.
• Dual Boss: As stated above, Alad V and Zanuka are fought together. Zanuka has a very powerful shield that has to be disabled by attacking Alad before it can be hurt.
• Energy Weapon: The Zanuka Hunter's main weapon is a plasma gun.
• I Shall Taunt You: While the Zanuka Hunter is silent, Alad V will taunt the player just before the Hunter spawns and while you fight it.
• Mega Manning: Zanuka's abilities include copies of the Jackal's rocket barrage, Nova's Antimatter Drop and the Stalker's Dispel.
• Mini-Boss: The Zanuka Hunter may appear at random during a mission when a member of the cell has its Death Mark, not unlike the Stalker.
• Nonstandard Game Over: If the Zanuka Hunter manages to incapacitate you, your current mission is aborted, and you are forced to undertake a special mission to recover all your equipment (including your powers). You can't do any other mission with the equipment used to fight the Zanuka Hunter until you successfully complete this one.
• Palette Swap: The Zanuka Hunter is physically identical to the original model but with a red and gray paint job.
• Reforged into a Minion: Zanuka are made from Warframe parts. It's implied that they once belonged to Valkyr, as they resemble her Germesi skin before she was cut up by Alad V.
• Was Once a Man: Or rather, was once a Tenno, given that the Zanuka are made from Warframe parts. Zig-zagged: The Tenno are seperate from the Warframes, but the latter are implied to have some degree of sentience and possibly sapience...

The Orb Mothers

Profit-Taker Orb

Exploiter Orb

Unnamed Orb Mother

Voiced by: Tamara Fritz (Profit-Taker), Rachel Sellers (Exploiter)

"I am patient, I am still. When I descend, It's you I'll kill."

— Profit-Taker Orb

"Solaris. United. You shall NOT be spared the rod... as those who came before you... Were. NOT. Spared."

— Exploiter Orb

Three gigantic Raknoid proxies guarding Nef Anyo's Orb Vallis project. Each of them is stationed at one of the larger bases: the Profit-Taker Orb oversees the Enrichment Labs, the Exploiter Orb patrols the Temple of Profit and an as yet unnamed Orb is stationed near the spaceport.

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• An Ice Person: The Exploiter can generate a deadly snowstorm around her, and freeze over the floor where she is fought. It's just as much a defensive measure as an offensive one, since she's outright invulnerable in the cold.
• A Taste of Her Own Medicine: When Exploiter Orb calls for her Raknoids, Zudd will reply with this:
  'Rude Zuud: Call them. Call them and know what it’s like to feel them die.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: They are taller than Teralysts, and as quadrupeds they are even longer and wider as well.
• Barrier Change Boss: Once weakened, Profit-Taker's shield can only be damaged by one specific damage type, remaining completely immune to everything else. This vulnerability cycles throughout the fight, shifting in a fixed pattern after a set period of time or after players inflict enough of the "right" damage on it, though it's also possible to force it to shift by hitting it with either your Operator attacks or a fully-mastered Paracesis.
• Deadly Euphemism: When Profit-taker is defeated, she keeps calling the shield satellite to charge her so she is overcharged and explodes, in a final attempt to kill the Tenno. Before exploding, she wishes for the Tenno good night, as she intends to make them sleep forever with the explosion.
• Eccentric A.I.: Profit-Taker Orb’s A.I. acts like a childish psychopath that talks in rhymes.
  Profit-Taker Orb: “Squishy pretties come out to play. My two friends, it’s you they’ll slay.”
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Exploiter Orb will be shouting at you for killing her Coolant Raknoids, whom she saw them as her own children.
  Exploiter Orb: MY CHILDREN! THEY DID NOTHING TO YOU!
• Evil Is Hammy: Exploiter has a very bombastic demeanour, contrasting Profit-Taker's more subdued and sinister one.
• Flunky Boss: Exploiter is backed up by a swarm of Mite Raknoids in the early stages of her fight, and summons Coolant Raknoids to assist her later on.
• Humongous Mecha: They're a Raknoid-type proxy even larger than a Teralyst and just as powerful, requiring special equipment to take down.
• Hypocrite: Exploiter Orb will call you a murderer and a bully for killing her Raknoids and fighting against her. She also destroyed Deck 12 which killed a majority of the previous Solaris United and she scares Fortuna into submission to continue to extract coolant from the earth.
• It Can Think: While proxies have always shown a degree of intelligence, the Orb Mothers appear to possess true sentience, likely owed to the, well, Sentient technology incorporated into them.
• The Juggernaut: They all have certain properties that makes them impossible to suffer damager and Tenno needs to do certain steps and tasks to make them vulnerable to damage.
  • Profit-Taker's energy shield is based on Sentient technology making her extremely durable AND she's buffed by a satellite-based shield projector atop of that, and her armored outer shell is made of materials normally used for Corpus warship hulls. Normally, she is immune to anything and everything the Tenno can throw at her, so the majority of her heist focuses on finding a way to weaken her defenses to give the Tenno a fighting chance.
  • Exploiter's armor plating is outright invulnerable in the cold, and she can coat her vents in impenetrable ice. As such, her fight revolves around using condensed Thermia to melt through her defenses in order to deal damage.
• Last Words: Before dying and exploding, the Orb Mothers will say some last words before biting the dust.
  Profit-Taker Orb: Good...night....sweet....heart.....good....night....
  Exploiter Orb: And… so I turn from the tumult of the world… towards home… that sweetest spot… ‘neath the circuit… of the sun…
• Machine Monotone: Profit-Taker speaks in a very human-like voice, but it always sounds like a hissing whisper and never has any inflection.
• Mama Bear: A villainous example but Exploiter Orb treats the rest of the smaller Raknoids as her childrens and she will go ballistic if we kill them.
• Meaningful Name: Their names are an indication to what their tasks are assigned by Nef in the Vallis.
  • Profit-Taker Orb makes sure that Fortuna gives to the Corpus the money they make by extracting the coolant from the earth, stealing the profit that Fortuna makes.
  • Exploiter Orb bullies, sermons and scares Fortuna into submission to continue extract coolant and the profit never falls, exploiting them to the limit.
• Misery Builds Character: Exploiter invokes this trope almost verbatim, claiming that "hardship builds character" and enduring winter's chill makes one strong while she attempts to freeze you to death.
• Monster Is a Mommy: As per Word of God they are programmed to think this, making them highly defensive of their territory. Accordingly, the Exploiter views the Coolant Raknoids she summons as her children and is enraged when they are destroyed.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: The Orb Mothers are heavily armored and completely immune to all conventional forms of attack. Each one requires specific steps to be taken to make it possible to defeat them.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: You can tell that Profit-Taker is absolutely livid with you when, during your final fight with it, it fumbles for words in one of its messages and loses the rhythm of her rhyming.
• Orcus on His Throne: Outside of her heist, Profit-Taker is content with lounging on the roof of a research facility she is protecting, mostly indifferent to the Tenno. At most she will shell you with artillery if you're nearby and the Vallis alert level is high enough (again, not even moving from its spot), but otherwise your Tenno could zip around right in front of her face on Archwing, and Profit-Taker won't even scratch. Similarly, the third (currently unnamed) Orb Mother can be found wallowing in a small lake, refusing to do anything at all, even if a Tenno jumps on her head and starts dancing. Only the Exploiter averts this, patrolling the northwest corner of the map and attacking any Tenno that come near her and her Coolant Raknoids.
• Playing with Fire: Though Exploiter is An Ice Person normally, she switches to fire-based attacks during the second phase of her boss fight, after her cooling vents are destroyed.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Exploiter has something of a habit of this, slipping into such speech patterns several times.
• Psychotic Womanchild: Profit-Taker behaves likes a child that talks in rhymes and plans to destroy Fortuna and all of its residents after you disable her shields, furious that you made her vulnerable.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Profit-Taker speaks exclusively in rhymes.
• Sadistic Teacher: The Exploiter has the personality of a strict old schoolmarm, making sermons and shouting propaganda while bullying Fortuna to keep the production of coolant. She starts her boss fight by declaring that Solaris United will not be "spared the rod" and demanding that the Tenno look at her while she's talking to (read: trying to kill) them.
• Sequel Hook: Following "The New War", a Narmer drone can be found orbiting the lake the third, unfought orb is in, possibly hinting that the third Orb will be fought under Narmer control.
• Spider Tank: They are titanic versions of the Raknoids found throughout the Vallis. In case that name alone didn't make it obvious, they're explicitly based on spiders.
• Taking You with Me: After she sustains fatal damage, Profit-Taker still continues to request shieldcharge from her satellite. The resulting detonation covers a substantial area, and does enough damage to instantly kill most Warframes. Exploiter likewise self-destructs upon her defeat; her explosion is smaller but comes far more quickly.
• Time-Limit Boss: At the climax of your fight with Profit-Taker, the Corpus will regain control of their satellite that boosted her shields — leaving you with roughly 5 minutes to finish Profit-Taker off before they realign the satellite back at it and make her invulnerable again.
• Tranquil Fury: Subverted. One would be forgiven for thinking that Profit-Taker is just a well-programmed and emotionless Corpus proxy similar to other mechanical bosses because of her deceptively flat unchanging tone of voice — but through the context of her messages it's clear it is not. During its Stage 3, Profit-Taker is pissed when you weaken her shield and force it off her perch, gloats at your (then) futile flail at her shield, and at Stage 4 gets positively furious as you inflict more and more damage on her, fumbling for words to rhyme and eventually losing her rhyming. It's not exactly tranquil, it's just that the full extent of her fury does not come across with her communication capabilities.
  Profit-Taker Orb: Dollies should not move. Dollies should not bound. Bounce. Dollies should… shouldn’t. Dollies should… Dollies should DIE, AND BE SMASHED BAGS OF SALT AND FLUID! YOU CANNOT BRING MY RUIN!
• Villainous Breakdown: Profit-Taker is absolutely livid that you took down her shields and threats to find you and catch you, but due to her flat and unchanging tone makes it more like a Tranquil Fury. On the other hand, Exploiter gradually goes loses her sanity throughout her boss fight; as you disrupt her coolant system and destroy her cognition blocks her thought processes become increasingly erratic and deranged as her mental capacity erodes, creating this effect, killing her Coolant Raknoids makes it worse too. By the end of the first phase she marches on Fortuna with the intent of burning the entire colony to the ground, prompting Eudico to state that her mind's completely snapped.
  Exploiter Orb: "Come, Children. It is a fine day to visit the city. BURN. THEM. ALL!

Brokers

"Do you see Investors, this is why you choose Anyo Corp."

Employees of Anyo Corp who fight for him in The Index against the Tenno to try and get as much as credits they can while keeping their employer happy, trying to keep their livelihoods and lives out of risk when they Tenno is winning.

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• Bad Boss: Some of them are rather cruel managers of their own respective offices, but Nef is an even badder boss if they lose a match in the Index, implying he will execute them if they fail.

John Prodman

"Employee of the Month"

— Written on his poster, in Corpus language

Once a regular Prod Crewman fighting in the infested asteroids within the Grineer territory, John Prodman takes up stage pitted against the Tenno in one of the Corpus' most gruesome arenas in the Origin system, the Index.

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• Aerith and Bob: By virtue of him originating from fanon. Among the characters named Alad, Frohd, Nef, Darvo, Pelna, Armis etc. he's a guy called John.
• Ascended Meme: Like Clem, John Prodman is originally a fan character, coming from one player's after-action report about a lowly Prod Crewman who somehow managed to survive a boss fight with Phorid and even land the killing blow on it.
• Badass Normal: Being a mere Prod Crewman who nevertheless managed to survive a boss fight against a hulking infested monstrosity that is Phorid and his infested spawn lands him into this category. When the Tenno do battle with him they can't possibly kill him, as when his health is depleted he just scoffs at the Tenno and teleports away.
• Custom Uniform: Wears a differently coloured uniform from other Prod Crewmen as well as a syandana.
• King Mook: Memetic status aside, this is what he is for regular prod crewmen.
• Master Swordsman: Or Master Prodman. Not only does he have a unique moveset of different flowing attacks with his prod, he can even block your shots with it.
• Optional Boss: He only appears in the Index after an hour passes in a single match. Defeating him earns you an autographed poster of him that you can hang on a wall in your ship.
• The Battle Didn't Count: Unlike the other Brokers, if you manage to drop his life to zero, instead of croaking he scoffs at the Tenno and teleports away with a Badass Arm-Fold.
• The Voiceless: Unlike Clem (another ascended fan character) John does not have any catch phrases, or any dialogue lines at all for that matter.

Others

Latrox Une

"Oh, I hate it here. Hate it. I would give anything to get off this forsaken rock."

Voiced by: Guy Cunningham

"Hello? Anyone? This is Corpus representive Latrox Une. I'm lost, cornered by Infested, and my locator is... well, it's been eaten. I am in the direst need of assistance... Help!"

A Corpus researcher tasked with researching the Infested on the Cambion Drift - which is to say, he was stranded there and left to die. This does not agree with him, even as he assists the Entrati.

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• Butt-Monkey: The poor guy is clearly in over his head, and the Bounties involving him make it clear his communicators keep on being eaten.
• Enemy Mine: While technically a loyalist Corpus, the Tenno and Entrati are also the only things on Deimos not trying to eat or infest him, so he's more than happy to help out.
• Escort Mission: Protecting him is a focus of some Cambion Drift Bounties. You also get a bonus if his Shield Osprey survives.
• Lovable Coward: The bonus objective in his bounties is for him to upload all of his data, because if he doesn't do it in one minute he teleports away as quickly as possible. Given how the entire moon is covered in The Virus, the fact he's even willing to wait until he has all the data to transfer to begin with is commendable.
• Nervous Wreck: He has a completely rational attitude towards being stuck in the middle of a moon-sized Infested Hive, i.e. misery and panic.

Veso-R

Veso-R

Confirming tech aboard! Veso-R at your service, most gilded director, most...!

A Corpus crewman employed by Alad V at the beginning of The New War.

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• Accidental Misnaming: A victim of this from Alad V, who tends to call him the wrong name whenever talking to him (for example, Teko). Alad never manages to get Veso's name right, even messing it up when he praises the latter at the end of his playable segment. And unfortunately it even continues post-mortem, where a Corpus in Kahl's Veilbreaker camp will talk about the brave tech who fired on a Murex... Veko.
• Bolivian Army Ending: In the New War gameplay reveal trailer, Veso's segment ends as he is about to engage Sentient-controlled Bursas backed up by a decoy MOA, a Dera MOA, and a Shield Osprey. In The New War proper, the Bursas don't appear at all and Veso's last combat encounter is actually against a Sentient-controlled Jackal.
• Broken Pedestal: Downplayed; at first he is ecstatic to be speaking directly with the Alad V, heaping titles upon him. As Alad repeatedly forgets his name and yells at him for things that are not his fault, Veso downgrades him to a curt "sir." He fully loses respect for Alad when the latter tries to surrender to the Sentients, resulting in Veso defying orders to reengage fire control and blow the nearby Murex to smithereens.
• The Cameo: He shows up in Khora Prime's trailer, probably as a consolation for the fact that he was Killed Off for Real.
• Deadpan Snarker: Talks to himself a lot, and is not above sarcastic observations.
  "I've got a datapad, secure robot dispenser access... and a Plinx. *sigh* Riiight."
• Everyone Has Standards: While he is still part of the extremely greedy Corpus, he actually prioritizes loyalty to the Corpus ideals over personal advancement. His decision to betray Alad and reengage fire control with the fleet stems from realizing Alad intends to betray the Board to save his own skin.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the various new playable characters introduced in The New War, Veso leans toward the Mage, focusing on summoning and directing proxies to assist him in the fight. Notably, he has no direct damage dealing abilities, unlike Teshin or Kahl.
• Informed Attribute: Is referred to as a Tech by Alad V, but has the tan colored outfit of a regular crewman rather than the Tech's red outfit. He also lacks the Supra, but is at least able to hold his own with a Plinx. Granted, it's implied tech refers to his skillset rather than his actual position.
• The Minion Master: Veso has the ability to interface with spawners and send MOAs and Ospreys to support him in battle against Sentient controlled rogue proxies.
  • The Breacher MOA is a Support Party Member - its only offensive option is a Suicide Attack, but said attack can also clear rubble, and the MOA can be used to interface with terminals that may be out of reach for Veso.
  • The Osprey is also a Support Party Member, being The Medic of his minions via its shield generation. Its shields can protect the Breacher MOA from environmental hazards, letting it get to places it wouldn't normally be able to reach without being destroyed.
  • The Striker MOA is a straight combat aid, meant to provide Veso with extra firepower. In particular, its rapid rate of fire makes it almost a necessity for killing turrets (which have large amounts of shields that regenerate rapidly) and disabling the Jackal fought at the end of the segment (as the MOA can cut through its legs and body shield with minimal effort).
• Mook Lieutenant: While it's difficult to notice, the remnants of his helmet indicate that he is an Eximus crewman, explaining his non-standard armament.
• The Musketeer: Wields a Plinx pistol and a Prova.
• No-Respect Guy: Alad V constantly gets his name wrong and interrupts him very often. When the going starts to get too tough for him, he immediately switches plans to surrendering, rendering all of Veso's work for naught. However, this is averted elsewhere as the fleet accepts his command to fire at the Murex when he takes control of it. Common Corpus workers at Kahl's camp also speak of him honorably, even though they still get his name wrong.
• Suddenly Voiced: Veso, like Kahl for the Grineer, is a rare instance of a Corpus speaking English that isn't a boss. Though this isn't as novel for Veso as it is for Kahl, since Corpus capture targets also speak English.
• Taking You with Me: He reactivates Corpus weapons control, firing point blank into a Murex and destroying both ships.
• Uncertain Doom: He's last seen restoring fire control to the fleet after Alad has him shut it down so that he can surrender to the Murex they are attacking. Given that said Murex unleashes a shockwave that incinerates the Pillar after taking a nasty hit, Veso's odds of survival are pretty slim. In an interview, Rebecca confirms he died.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: He's playable during the fourth cinematic quest of the game, The New War. His gameplay mixes combat with heavy puzzle-solving elements using his Robot Buddies.
• Weak, but Skilled: Of the new characters in The New War, Veso is by far the weakest, being armed with nothing but a Plinx pistol. He saves the day through ingenious use of robots he obtains from dispensers in order to solve puzzles.
• Working-Class Hero: He's a Corpus Tech, one of the lowliest mooks in the game. Still manages to hold his own at the beginning of The New War.

Popcorn

Popcorn

A Test Moa callously crushed by the Jackal at the start of its deployment, it was rescued by the Tenno, repaired, and adopted by Clem as a pet. Hangs out with him at Iron Wake.

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• Ascended Meme: Popcorn originated from this tweet responding to the Jackal's teaser video, where a player asked whether it would be possible to rescue the Moa crushed by the Jackal in its entrance animation. By now used to this sort of thing after the cases of Clem and John Prodman, DE only took 5 days to add Popcorn to the game after the tweet took off.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: An example of the bait. When the Tenno are sent to destroy the Jackal, a small Test Moa rises up on its platform instead, confusing the Lotus... only for the Jackal to drop down from above and crush the Moa.
  Lotus: I expected it to be... bigger.
• Cute Machines: Acts oddly adorably in her brief appearance before the Jackal lands on her, like a baby animal just waking up. This is probably what caused her to win the hearts of the Tenno. If a Tenno jumps in front of her in Iron Wake, she'll even hop up and down in imitation of them.
• Fembot: A downplayed example as Popcorn is not even remotely humanoid in appearance, but Moas in general never have any kind of gender^note although some of the larger Corpus Proxies such as the Orb Mothers definitely do, yet Popcorn is treated as female.

Cephalon Sark

Welcome to the Index!

Voiced by:Scott Montiel

Cephalon Sark is the cephalon host of the Index, Nef Anyo’s personal betting arena where the Tenno can bet a sum of credits and win more if they manage to score enough points.

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• Blood Sport: The host of one. The Index is a betting arena in Neptune owned by Nef where Tenno and employees of Anyo Corp duke it out and try to score enough points dropped when killing a member of the opponent team. The Index is divided in three difficulties, each one costing more credits in order to enter but will pay more than the previous one.
• Flat Character: Beyond being the host of the Index, Sark is not doing anything of importance.
• Large-Ham Announcer: As the host of the Index, he is quite expressive commentating on the Tenno and Corpus killing and scoring points. Sometimes making snarky comments of Nef’s defeat.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: Played for Laughs. Since he doesn't have a face or even a body he'll sometimes add in comments that plainly state what kind of facial expression or body language he's trying to use. He'll also do this with his intended tone of voice despite the fact that he can express himself through tone perfectly fine.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: While Nef is hosting an arena where people fight against each other for money (and judging by his comments, if his team loses they are not going to have a good time) and is the cruel owner of Fortuna, Sark is a hammy announcer that can mock Nef if his team is the one losing against the Tenno.

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