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I don't know how many of you know of Earth. I'm not entirely convinced yet that this isn't some sort of Void anomaly causing this place to be trapped in some sort of rift between dimensions. However, I have accepted that I am, for the time being, stuck here. As such, I've decided to put down all the details of Earth as I can. Mostly for my own benefit than anything else. If what I have to tell isn't interesting to you, I do not blame you for disregarding this message, but this is my story, and the story of my family.
I suppose I should start at the beginning. I - like my fellow Tenno - come from the last days of the Orokin Empire. After terraforming every planet and as many moons in the Origin system, the Orokin set their sights on other systems to colonize and expand into. Their primary destination was the Tau system.
I feel I should say here that I apologize for the vague nature of how events are presented going forward. The timeline offered here is not set in stone, just my best guesses.
The Orokin sought to use the Void - an extradimensional space - to help them reach the distant Tau system. However, the Orokin did not fully understand the Void. Every vessel that went in either vanished or returned full of corpses. My family was put on the Zairiman, to the rest of the Empire, it was a military ship bound for the Tau system. There were supposed to be no children on board, however there were a lot of us. When the Zairiman went into the Void, there was a mechanical failure and we were stranded. The ship was bathed in Void radiation, causing the adults on the ship to lose their minds. They roamed the halls of the ship like packs of feral beasts, attacking anything that wasn't in their pack. However, the children... we were safe. We banded together, sealed ourselves off in another wing of the ship and looked after each other until the Zairiman was discovered.
When the Orokin recovered the ship, they found the adults dead, and us... changed. The radiation made us nigh impossible to approach. Because of the fact we weren't even supposed to be there, the people in charge of the Empire were ready to have us killed and just... erased. But Archimedian Margulis stood up for us. She developed a form of therapy to help us contain and focus the energies our bodies were now producing by giving us armored shells to project our minds into, with the intent of us using these shells to rejoin society at some point.
Either before the Zairiman incident, or while we were in the Void, the Orokin developed a form of terraforming rover that they sent ahead of any colonization effort. A self-replicating robot race that were fully sentient, called Sentients. However, going through the Void sterilized them. Unable to reproduce, the Sentients turned their wrath back on the Orokin, emerging on the edges of the Empire, each one an army unto itself. The adaptability they were given to protect them in the alien worlds were turned against the Orokin as well, rendering their weapons primarily useless.
It was then that Ballas, Margulis' lover, joined her project in providing us rejects - Tenno - the shells that were to be our lives. However, Ballas turned Margulis' work into something twisted. He was the creator of the first Warframes. The Orokin high command funded Ballas' work as the Empire neared extinction. And so we were given shells to inhabit, taught in the old ways of war, of gun and blade, and sent to the front lines.
The introduction of the Warframes was the turning point in the Old War. The variety of powers our frames were capable of along with the tactics we were trained in overwhelmed the adaptability of the Sentients and we drove them back.
During the war, Margulis objected to how we were used as warriors. We piloted the Warframes as we slept, not fully aware of what we were doing. The High Command considered Margulis a traitor and sentenced her to death.
In the waning days of the Old War, a Sentient - Natah, daughter of Hunhow - was sent to the Orokin, disguised as human. It was there that Natah discovered us Tenno. Unable to have children of her own, Natah took Margulis' form and hid our sanctuary, Earth's moon, in the void, away from the Sentients reach as well as from our Orokin masters.
That marked the end of the Old War. The Orokin attempted to take control of the scattered colonies, using what Tenno they still had sway over, but were unable as with Natah's guidance, now called the Lotus, we brought down the Orokin Empire and entered the Second Dream, safe from any that could harm us.
That was... centuries ago. We were awoken little by little as the factions that rose up to fill the Orokin's power vacuum unearthed their relics, and our Warframes. Rather than let those factions use the Warframe technology to make their war more destructive, we were awoken.
We are free to take whatever path we choose, and I chose to document the stories of the old Warframes - the stories of my fallen brethren - as best I could. Both to honor those that are no longer with us, and to attempt to find my own history. Everything I just typed out is reconstructed from vague memories inscribed on ancient relics. No Tenno actually remember anything between the incident on the Zairiman and present day. And many of us don't even remember the Zairiman.
I suppose I should start at the beginning. I - like my fellow Tenno - come from the last days of the Orokin Empire. After terraforming every planet and as many moons in the Origin system, the Orokin set their sights on other systems to colonize and expand into. Their primary destination was the Tau system.
I feel I should say here that I apologize for the vague nature of how events are presented going forward. The timeline offered here is not set in stone, just my best guesses.
The Orokin sought to use the Void - an extradimensional space - to help them reach the distant Tau system. However, the Orokin did not fully understand the Void. Every vessel that went in either vanished or returned full of corpses. My family was put on the Zairiman, to the rest of the Empire, it was a military ship bound for the Tau system. There were supposed to be no children on board, however there were a lot of us. When the Zairiman went into the Void, there was a mechanical failure and we were stranded. The ship was bathed in Void radiation, causing the adults on the ship to lose their minds. They roamed the halls of the ship like packs of feral beasts, attacking anything that wasn't in their pack. However, the children... we were safe. We banded together, sealed ourselves off in another wing of the ship and looked after each other until the Zairiman was discovered.
When the Orokin recovered the ship, they found the adults dead, and us... changed. The radiation made us nigh impossible to approach. Because of the fact we weren't even supposed to be there, the people in charge of the Empire were ready to have us killed and just... erased. But Archimedian Margulis stood up for us. She developed a form of therapy to help us contain and focus the energies our bodies were now producing by giving us armored shells to project our minds into, with the intent of us using these shells to rejoin society at some point.
Either before the Zairiman incident, or while we were in the Void, the Orokin developed a form of terraforming rover that they sent ahead of any colonization effort. A self-replicating robot race that were fully sentient, called Sentients. However, going through the Void sterilized them. Unable to reproduce, the Sentients turned their wrath back on the Orokin, emerging on the edges of the Empire, each one an army unto itself. The adaptability they were given to protect them in the alien worlds were turned against the Orokin as well, rendering their weapons primarily useless.
It was then that Ballas, Margulis' lover, joined her project in providing us rejects - Tenno - the shells that were to be our lives. However, Ballas turned Margulis' work into something twisted. He was the creator of the first Warframes. The Orokin high command funded Ballas' work as the Empire neared extinction. And so we were given shells to inhabit, taught in the old ways of war, of gun and blade, and sent to the front lines.
The introduction of the Warframes was the turning point in the Old War. The variety of powers our frames were capable of along with the tactics we were trained in overwhelmed the adaptability of the Sentients and we drove them back.
During the war, Margulis objected to how we were used as warriors. We piloted the Warframes as we slept, not fully aware of what we were doing. The High Command considered Margulis a traitor and sentenced her to death.
In the waning days of the Old War, a Sentient - Natah, daughter of Hunhow - was sent to the Orokin, disguised as human. It was there that Natah discovered us Tenno. Unable to have children of her own, Natah took Margulis' form and hid our sanctuary, Earth's moon, in the void, away from the Sentients reach as well as from our Orokin masters.
That marked the end of the Old War. The Orokin attempted to take control of the scattered colonies, using what Tenno they still had sway over, but were unable as with Natah's guidance, now called the Lotus, we brought down the Orokin Empire and entered the Second Dream, safe from any that could harm us.
That was... centuries ago. We were awoken little by little as the factions that rose up to fill the Orokin's power vacuum unearthed their relics, and our Warframes. Rather than let those factions use the Warframe technology to make their war more destructive, we were awoken.
We are free to take whatever path we choose, and I chose to document the stories of the old Warframes - the stories of my fallen brethren - as best I could. Both to honor those that are no longer with us, and to attempt to find my own history. Everything I just typed out is reconstructed from vague memories inscribed on ancient relics. No Tenno actually remember anything between the incident on the Zairiman and present day. And many of us don't even remember the Zairiman.
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An interesting story, thank you. I'm from Earth, though I don't know anything of either an Origin or Tau system. What provoked Natah's unusual motive?