Halyo_Alex he/him Posted April 13, 2020 Posted April 13, 2020 Ok, so, as stated in the tags, this DOES have plot spoilers for the game Warframe. It is however free to play and very fun and I would recommend playing it if you want. Anyway, onto the actual meat of this post. In Warframe, one of the big reveals later in the game (when you reach Uranus/Neptune) is that you're a Tenno child exposed to the Void during an incident with an Orokin ship. The incident caused you and several other humans to develop strange powers, and become... different. They gained the ability to channel the Void's energies through themselves, at first with just a very strong beam attack that, in-game, behaves like a Super Attack or other such special ability. The Warframes themselves are later revealed to be low-ranking or criminal Orokin men and women, infected with a specific strain of the Infestation called the Helminth strain, which mutated them into forms that could fit inside the exoskeletal armor that you see as the Warframes, like Excalibur, Mag, and Volt, the 3 frames you can pick at the start of the game. The infestation also gave the Warframes unnatural powers, like the ability to summon a sword made out of light. ...Gee that sounds familiar, don't it. Other abilities include healing others, or even transporting them to a parallel plane of existance called the Rift, where enemies can still see you (and you can see them) but neither party can damage each other for the duration of the Banishment unless the enemies are ALSO transported to the Rift. The reason that these Void-exposed children are given these Warframes to pilot via Transference is that prior to their interaction, the Warframes were insane, broken, and violent, uncontrollable beings. Powerful to be sure, but wild. The Tenno children were the only people capable of calming the Warframes and controlling them properly. Indeed, an exact quote from Ballas states the following about the Tenno: "It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing-- And take away its pain." (Emphasis added by myself.) So yeah. Just some interesting observations from a fan of both SA and Warframe.
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