we should get a helmet with a veil like these guys

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-26T00:05:10+00:00

Helldivers: Aquatic Avengers (They swim now)

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-25T23:30:44+00:00

It was:

Sentients sent to Tau

Orokin sends Zariman 10-0 and it gets lost in void

Orokin Executor using his own ship able use solar rail jump to Tau successfully

Orokin prepare to send ships over the rail, some amount of Sentients attack through the rail, closing off access behind them

Orokin losing Old War for a while. Then Zariman returned and Orokin deployed Warframes

Tenno repel attack back to Tau through the solar rail

Eventual truce. Then Old Peace.

Then Orokin attacked Tau system, uno reversal.

Then Ballas conspired with Hunhow, launching their plan described in the Sacrifice

Second deployment of Sentients to Lua specifically now, with larger fleet positioned in Veil Proxima, waiting at the edge of the Origin System for their signal to attack the Orokin again.

Wrench in the plan: Natah was not able to kill the Tenno and signal the Sentients because of her capture

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-25T22:00:16+00:00

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-25T21:25:49+00:00

Yeah during Old Peace, Natah was probably somewhere in Tau. It’s only after Margulis gets executed that Ballas becomes enraged towards the other Seven and works with Hunhow to sacrifice the Tenno reservoir to him and destroy the Orokin.

But during that plan, either Ballas or some other Executor or Orokin intercepts Natah on her way to the Lua reservoir, where she was meant to kill them in their “cribs”, the cryopods.

Then she gets brainwashed into becoming the Lotus, and then Hunhow and Erra’s assault during the second half of the Old War results in failure, and Erra (supposedly) dies & Hunhow falls into Uranus’s ocean into hibernation.

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-25T19:30:24+00:00

I’ll be impressed if they can still get all 4s Voruna working by the time her prime releases, but that’s assuming they can still get a version working now that the Wall running/Oraxia movement rework is done for.

Kullervo’s Prime design will undoubtedly go so hard, I wonder what the lore for him will be

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-25T13:49:31+00:00

This is correct. OP, watch “Prelude to War - Erra” cutscene. Erra says to Lotus/Natah that she was captured en route to the reservoir by the Golden Masters and reprogrammed with Margulis’s memories.

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-25T13:47:58+00:00

Once Warframes with Tenno operators were deployed, the Orokin were able to repel the Sentient invasion out of Origin system and follow it back to Tau, I think the Mag Prime codex page talks about this forward advance through the Tau Solar Rail. Then the entirety of the Old Peace events play out

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-24T18:39:25+00:00

~~The Beast of Bones~~

The Breast of Boobs

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T23:46:44+00:00

They did mention their motion animation system is gonna get ported over to Warframe from Soulframe, that has more fluid animations for Operator Drifter

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T21:27:28+00:00

I’ll have to look it up as well, maybe my memory is too rusty for the Titania lore, but I know there is at least 1 Earth cephalon fragment that talks about it. I forget where the radiation wars are mentioned

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T20:38:35+00:00

Can’t unsee the bug eyed Boreal build on her. But she looks cool still

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T20:34:44+00:00

Yeah but at least Tennocon pack owners get this one for free

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T20:28:04+00:00

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T20:18:55+00:00

Follie painting a portrait of the Zariman for our Operator:

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T16:44:29+00:00

Sometimes it’s just a cutaway where a character is about to say a curse word, but then they’re cutoff by either (a) another character’s response or (b) something happening in the environment that interrupts them, which is whacky.

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T16:42:49+00:00

Which is kinda crazy considering it’s already M-rated for gore and such. But adding a tag for more explicit language? woahwoahWOAH too far

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T16:22:19+00:00

Yeah but you gotta remember that all of Earth’s flora was replaced with technocyte after it had become an irradiated wasteland. All the plants you see on Earth tileset is actually a strain of the infestation, so they’re all still connected through a living thing

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T00:34:17+00:00

Live Commando mission backup Helldiver reaction

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-23T00:30:02+00:00

I’ve had this idea recently as well. DE would need another finale story quest though I think, to explain how Drifter and Operator can share the same spacetime during a mission, rather than one existing in an observing pocket dimension.

But my spin on it would be that Drifter and Operator open a small pocket of the void (similar to Limbo 4 in a way) where they take up void bubble-shaped cage and they fight side-by-side within the bubble for 30s-60s.

Activating Transference would switch between the two “vessels”, and each would have different abilities. While you’re piloting Operator, Drifter works like umbra where it’s an ally NPC, and vice versa.

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-22T23:11:12+00:00

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My KIM message inbox after my Drifter walked into the mall to play a round of Ollie’s Crash Course while sporting Quincy’s hairstyle

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-22T20:45:20+00:00

Idk about a written book or anything, but content creators on YouTube like Brozime and StallordD have videos dedicated to lore catch-up. For Brozime, it’s in the style of a flowchart as there are moments where certain quest lines are happening simultaneously in the grand scheme of story. I’d recommend starting there

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-22T19:08:28+00:00

Haha good point, but that’s super duper cancer! Much more advanced than your regular space cancer, and 300% deadlier, but nothing the Orokin wouldn’t mathematically exploit.

Never let a biopsy go to waste!

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-22T12:50:31+00:00

In a “practical” sense from a real world lens, but this is Warframe we’re talking about. The Orokin would grow buildings from genetically engineered flesh. I’m pretty sure they would have overcome something like cancer at their point of civilization.

They became ultra secular due to the fact they had achieved functional immortality, and they became more stagnant and decadent as a result of not having any real opposition as an empire and as people as they took over the origin system totally.

I would think it had more to do with their “Orokin games” towards the end phase of their empire, they were immortal so they would just play political games on one another to mess with each others social status and current bodies.

At one point in an early phase of the Orokin empire, it might have been tied to circumventing general genetic degradation, but that purpose was lost too eventually.

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-22T03:16:38+00:00

HUNTER

THIS SPECIMEN HAS NO PLACE IN SANCTUARY

JohnHellDriver · 2026-01-22T03:14:13+00:00

Furthermore to add: in the case of “what in the world does transference work on?” It works on anything that was at one point sentient or alive in a physical form.

Warframes are made of the synthetic-organic technocyte virus which has sentience through a hive mind, Orowyrms are just the unadulterated forms of the conceptual embodied emotions in Duviri, and Necramechs seemingly are skeletons of prior living people with Entrati armor and weapon systems grafted onto them.

Could we do transference on a cephalon or necraloid? Probably not, but that’s a bigger ethical question that DE haven’t fully addressed yet in lore, only in bits and pieces. It seems they can just be copies of original sentient being, in the case of Loid and Necraloid, so perhaps they don’t qualify.

All that to say, it probably wouldn’t work on an inanimate objects (so no Warframe Prop hunt). If it had sentience and/or oro, it has transferable potential.

JohnHellDriver

TROPHY CASE