Warframes

The Warframe is an advanced weapons system used exclusively by the in their missions throughout the Origin System. The Warframes possess regenerative shields, greatly enhanced mobility, and the use of an array of supernatural abilities – all of which further augment the Tenno's deadly use of traditional combat arts.
==Overview==
Warframes are divided into a collection of diverse models, each of which personifies a great warrior spirit. Players may don to gain his prowess with bladed weapons, for instance. Each Warframe is moreover highly reconfigurable, meaning players can tailor their choice of Warframe to fit a multitude of playstyles. While certain Warframes excel in a particular situation, none are limited to a singular role and no role demands the use of a singular Warframe.
Players customize Warframes via the installation of Mods which can upgrade their Warframe Attributes, endow them with additional utilities, and even alter their abilities. Further bonuses can be achieved by equipping add-ons, such as Arcane Helmets or Arcane Enhancements.
Each Warframe features four unique and extraordinary activatable powers that allow for a large degree of control over the surrounding environment. Warframes also possess passive abilities – powers that activate on their own accord. These powers allow a Tenno to cast virtually anything, with examples ranging from devastating waves of energy, to bullet-nullifying barriers, mass healing, portals to the stars beyond, radial waves of antimatter, and even ethereal weapons. Warframes greatly augment the physical abilities of a Tenno as well, affecting natural skills like swordsmanship, marksmanship and, most notably, acrobatics.
New players start the game by selecting their first Warframe, from , , or , and playing through the Vor's Prize Introductory Quest. As the player progresses, they may craft or buy other Warframes from the full list of offerings.
As of , there are a total of Warframes consisting of both original models and special variants. Only one of these special variants is exclusive to a certain group of players; is Founders-exclusive. Of the distinct Warframes, 28 are male, 26 are female, and 1 is non-binary (pluriform).
==Lore & History==
=== Overview ===
Warframes are highly advanced, bio-mechanical suits of armor that were used by the during the Old WarA mysterious weaponized armor controlled solely by the Tenno. Through the Warframe, Tenno can cheat death, channel the forbidden Void energies and face scores of enemies without fatigue. Due to apparent resistances of their Bio-Metal exoskeletons, Warframes can be safely deployed to Infestation Outbreaks, should they occur. In-depth information of the Warframe mandate is forbidden to all but the Seven. - Warframe Technology Fragment. Unlike Dax, another infantry, Warframes able to channel Void energy and safely enter Infestation Outbreaks.The true nature of the Warframes and their Tenno connection is a secret lost to the Old War. Together, they represent our best hope in turning the tide of the machine war. Warframes are unique from Dax and other Infantry, deploying dangerous and esoteric Void energy, and equipped with often mundane physical weapons – this is key to fighting an enemy that had turned our technology against us. - Warframes Fragment It was revealed by Ballas that Warframes are created from a specialized form of the called the Helminth. Originally cultivated to prevent to a converted host's mind from falling under the Technocyte influence, the first Warframes ultimately regressed into feral animals. To remedy this, the Orokin enlisted the survivors of the Zariman 10-0 accident; along with the use of Transference, these 'Operators' would control the now tamed Warframes, using them as battle proxies and becoming a warrior caste known as the .
Despite the Operators control and the influence of the Technocyte, some Warframes who did not yet fully succumb still retained their awareness, with some notable frames being Umbra is able to move of his own will, independently acting even without an Operator controlling him., Dante existed before the use of Transference, even acting as historian and studying alongside the Entrati.
"-Those like Dante who had yet to succumb became fugitives. To shelter them meant death - or glassing." - Loid., Kullervo was in service before Transference was used and even witnessed it himself.
"You saw the new generation of your kind and the Tenno whose deviltry blent with theirs-" - The Warden, While Dagath did lose most of her personality at first, she did manage to leave the place where she lost her face, and would ultimately kill the Orokin couple who ordered it gone., Jade's Memory Feathers recount her own thoughts, and how she fought without an Operator. and the .
=== Creation ===
As The Old War raged on, , with their ability to adapt and take over technology, would easily counter any of the attacks. On the brink of losing the war, Orokin Executor Ballas chose a different route, turning to the flesh and disease of the . Cultivating a new hybridized strain called the Helminth"We cultured the Infestation, conceiving of a hybrid. Transformed, but only just. The 'Helminth' was created, born to yield these new warriors, worthy of battle against you. The great and terrible Hunhow. We took our greatest, volunteers or not, and polluted them with these cultured reagents. They transformed. They became Infested... but only just. Their skin blossomed into sword-steel. Their organs, interlinked with untold resilience. Yet their minds were free of the Infested madness. Or so we thought." - Ballas during The Sacrifice, Ballas would inoculate the strongest subjects that could be found, volunteers or not; even including the Orokin's own Dax soldiers, creating the first generation of Warframes.
During the conversion process, the subject's skin would harden into sword-like steel"Oh! Aren't you a fascinating specimen? Organic-ferrous exoflesh, hybridized internals, Untime trace..." - Daughter during the Heart of Deimos., while their organs would interlink and hybridized to improve resilience. However, the conversion would also render the subject unable to speak coherently, only being able to produce metallic screams, howls, and groans"Warframes cannot speak, as a rule. Their creator decided they should only scream, or roar, or howl.-" - Loid. Despite their Infested nature, these hosts remained relatively sane for a time, able to operate and and obey via their own free will, although they were considered dangerous and were often feared by those they were meant to defend. 
These Warframes where then sent out into the battlefields in an attempt to turn the war in the Orokin's favor. However, the Technocyte's corrupting prescience would soon prove too much, turning them into little more than savage and feral animals, leading most to violently rebel against the Orokin. The Orokin, deciding these frames to now be defective, had no choice but purge and eradicate nearly all of them. In an attempt to extend their control, Ballas ordered any future and surviving frames to undergo extensive torture and drug therapy to destroy their minds, hoping to render them into mindless puppets."We had created monsters we couldn't control. We drugged them, tortured them, eviscerated them... We brutalized their minds... but it did not work. Until they came." - Ballas during The Sacrifice
Researchers were tasked with restraining the feral hosts within Lua, and if they were not rejected, would often perform live vivisections on them and any newly crafted Warfame, even recording their responses to torture for study."I have seen this monster before. I have cut its shell and eviscerated its brothers. I have given it pain and measured its response. I have crafted then rejected countless like it. But I've never seen this beast so close, without the shield, without restraints. I have never seen it... free." - Excerpt from Rhino Prime's Codex. Any frames who did not yet succumb to the frenzy went into hiding, becoming fugitives in the process, as it became an offense punishable by death or glassing if any were caught sheltering them.
=== The Next Generation ===
Still desperate for victory, the Orokin's salvation would soon be found, almost by accident. Within Lua, a frame had gotten loose (presumably released by a researcher named Davis). In an attempt to secure the beast, security forces would be deployed, but they were easily gored in an instant. As the frame squat down, eating the remains of the guards, it recognized one of the panicking researchers, remembering the tortures it had suffered by his hand. As it begins to lumber after the researcher, Davis open the door to an unknown cell and drags his colleague in. When the creature approached the doorway, it mysteriously went calm, with Davis revealing that the cell contained the survivors from the Zariman Ten Zero accident. 
Due to this discovery, the the children of the Zariman would be enlisted, although now hidden away in the Reservior on Lua to control their chaotic Void powers. Through the creation of Transference, They would became the new 'Operators' of the feral Warframes, as they were the only ones who managed to tame them. With their minds linked together, instead of resorting to force of will like the Orokin, the children instead chose compassion an empathy, being able to "see inside an ugly, broken thing and take away its pain".Quote from The Sacrifice 
Equipped with archaic ballistic and melee weapons, the newly operated Warframes were deployed onto the battlefield with great success against their Sentient assailants, finally turning the tide of war in the Orokin's favor."Warframes" Cephalon Fragment
=== Within the Orokin Era ===
While the Old War continued, Warframes were also employed to control the Orokin's coloniesSee ' and ' Leverian entries, to serve as political assassins's Leverian entry, and to purge Infestation outbreaks."Warframe Technology" Cephalon Fragment Any details surrounding the truth of the Warframes and their Tenno operators were kept hidden by the Council of Executors."In-depth information of the Warframe mandate is forbidden to all but the Seven." - "Warframes" Cephalon Fragment"Every time we tear a Tenno corpse from its metal womb we find nothing to explain their power. Our Warframe engineers gesture wildly about nanotechnology, how reactive dissolution hides the answers. What if a Warframe is merely a lightning rod? A conduit for these demons of the Void? Consider how it could change our plan." - Intercepted inbox message from Captain Vor during Operation: Arid Fear"Found the Reservoir? Hm, as unpleasant as our past is, I have to ask; I've, uh, seen inside a Tenno, yes. And what I've found didn't make sense. Does this Reservoir conceal some great deception?" - Alad V during The Second Dream A mythos surrounding them were created to mask the source of their power and to incite fear throughout the Orokin Empire."I had been, until then, a Tenno denier. They were ghosts, propaganda, twisted casualties of the Void Era. Not possibly real." - Codex entry Due to their sparse numbers, civilian populations in the current WARFRAME era may still believe in these ancient myths about the Warframes and Tenno."Tenno! The myths... they weren't myths!" - Myconian Male 1 during The Glast Gambit"The dogmatic Arbiters seek a truth through discipline and practice. They reject the 'Tenno as Warrior' mythology – a lie constructed to limit their potential." - Arbiters of Hexis description
=== Kinemantik Instant Messasging ===
According to the Drifter, most of the modern-day Warfarmes are replications of the originals. When the Drifter performs Transference into a Warframe, they take on some fragments of that Warframe's personality, such as their stance or the way they move.
==Acquisition==
Warframes are obtained by two general methods: crafting them with in-game materials at the Foundry or purchasing them fully assembled from the Market. Additionally, obtaining a Warframe requires the use of a storage slot. Players possess a finite number of storage slots, which can be expanded by purchasing additional slots at the Market.
===Foundry===
Assembling a Warframe at the Foundry requires the Warframe's main blueprint and three component parts:
 	 	 	
Main Blueprint	Neuroptics	Chassis	Systems
To construct a Warframe, players must first assemble each of its components. This is performed by expending Resources earned throughout the game, including a copy of the part's corresponding blueprint. Component blueprints are generally obtained by completing appropriate Assassination missions, Quests, or Clan Dojo research, though exceptions exist. After collecting and assembling all of the necessary parts, players can purchase the Warframe's main blueprint from the Market with (the game's free-to-play currency) to complete the construction process. Once assembled, a Warframe may be upgraded at any time with the installation of an .
===Market===
Warframes can also be purchased fully assembled in the Market with . When acquired in this manner, a Warframe comes pre-installed with an and is provided with a complimentary Warframe storage slot.
=== Storage ===
Players begin the game with three Warframe storage slots and can acquire additional slots from the Market for a nominal fee of 20 each (Players also gain a complimentary slot for any Warframe purchased directly from the Market). Warframe slots can also be acquired through Nightwave. Note that a player can acquire without spending real world money by trading with other players.
==Attributes==
Attributes are the stats and functionality of Warframes such as Health, Armor, Shields, Energy, and Sprint Speed. Each Warframe is made unique with a different combination of these and their powers.
==Leveling Up==
Warframes require Affinity, conventionally known in other games as experience points (XP), in order to attain higher ranks. Each Warframe levels up separately from other Warframes to a maximum of Rank 30. Note that each of the Warframe's equipped weapons have Affinity rankings as well which also increase separately from Warframes. During missions, players are awarded Affinity through actions getting such as killing enemies, using abilities, completing objectives or reviving downed allies.
With each successive rank, a Warframe gains mod capacity as well as increases to Health, Shields, and Energy capacity, as well as 200 mastery points. Stat boosts received from ranking up are calculated from the base value of the Warframe for each stat, preventing mods from affecting the bonus.
During level up, all Warframe stats gain:
*+10 Health capacity every 3 ranks starting at Rank 1
*+10 Shield capacity every 3 ranks starting at Rank 2
*+5 Energy capacity every 3 ranks starting at Rank 3
For a total of +100 Health, +100 Shields and +50 Energy capacity at Rank 30.
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*+5 Health/s Regeneration at Unranked
*+10 Health capacity every 3 ranks starting at Rank 1
*+20 Armor every 6 ranks starting at Rank 2
*+3% Ability Strength every 6 ranks starting at Rank 3
*+10 Energy capacity every 6 ranks starting at Rank 5
*+2 Health/s Regeneration every 6 ranks starting at Rank 6
For a total of +100 Health, +100 Armor, +15% Ability Strength, +50 Energy capacity, and +15 Health/s Regeneration at Rank 30.
Since , Warframe Abilities unlock and rank up with affinity. The maximum Rank for any Ability is Rank 3.
Warframe / Archwing Rank	Ability and Rank	Ability and Rank	Ability and Rank	Ability and Rank	Ability and Rank
Warframe / Archwing Rank	First Ability 	Second Ability 	Third Ability 	Fourth Ability 	
0 	Rank 0 	Locked 	Locked 	Locked 	
3 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	Locked 	Locked 	
5 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	Locked 	
7 	Rank 1 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	Locked 	
10 	Rank 1 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	
12 	Rank 1 	Rank 1 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	
14 	Rank 2 	Rank 1 	Rank 0 	Rank 0 	
16 	Rank 2 	Rank 1 	Rank 1 	Rank 0 	
18 	Rank 3 	Rank 1 	Rank 1 	Rank 0 	
20 	Rank 3 	Rank 1 	Rank 1 	Rank 1 	
22 	Rank 3 	Rank 2 	Rank 1 	Rank 1 	
24 	Rank 3 	Rank 2 	Rank 2 	Rank 1 	
25 	Rank 3 	Rank 2 	Rank 2 	Rank 2 	
27 	Rank 3 	Rank 3 	Rank 2 	Rank 2 	
28 	Rank 3 	Rank 3 	Rank 3 	Rank 2 	
30 	Rank 3 	Rank 3 	Rank 3 	Rank 3 	
==Cosmetics==
Every Warframe can equip various kinds of alternative equipment or skins. These cosmetic items include Helmets, Idle Animations, holographic Emblems, Sigils and Cosmetic Armor.
Some of these items are available by default, some can either be bought from the Market or found as blueprints via the Cred Offering system. They can all be equipped in the Arsenal under the Appearance Tab.
==Release Order==
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==Trivia==
*Warframe, from the Orokin , literally means "War platform".
*The name "Warframes" comes from a 1950s Boeing (Company) WWII research project equipping WWII soldiers with exoskeletons, as mentioned by Steve Sinclair during Devstream #1.Origins of the word "Warframes"
** Such a project did not actually exist and never saw development or research with Boeing, which never developed significant military ground equipment of any kind until 2014. It is likely that the creator was referring to a failed system referred to as Hardiman, which was developed by General Electric in the mid to late 1960s, just prior to America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
*The naming convention for Warframes and its correspondence to various roles for combat hearkens to Japanese popular media design elements of using referential and real world mythology-based lore, in where they are not just used to evoke powerful reminiscence to their namesake and a sense of exoticism, but to also connotate otherworldliness and mysterious fantastical power rooted in dimensions beyond the everyday.
*As of the Devstream 178, to complete the 'Alphabet of Frames', a Warframe will need to start with the letter 'U'.
==Media==
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