Story and History

While we were able to find solid and legitimate supporting evidence for essentially the whole story as it is written, this interpretation comes from a variety of sources, and each of those pieces of information was likely written by a number of different people. This article strives to be more than a simple compendium of disparate lore tidbits. We took in all of the various bits of lore information and documented them in a chronological and readable way to produce the most complete story possible.
This page will be regularly updated as the developers, Digital Extremes, release more information. In addition, due to the nature of unreliable narrators, content is subjected to change.
==Transcripts==
==Orokin Era==
The four Orokin eras are Lith, Meso, Neo and Axi, which ended with the slaughter of most Orokin officials by the Tenno. These eras seem to correspond with the four void branches: Phobos, Europa, Neptune and Sedna.
=== Lith Era ===
Long before current events, the planets Earth, Venus, Mercury and Mars, as well as the moons Lua, Phobos and Deimos, were controlled by a highly advanced and stratified human civilization called the Orokin Empire, whose capital was on Earth's moon, now known as Lua. 
The void experiments of Albrecht Entrati likely began in this period.
=== Meso era ===
As the Empire expanded, it conquered Ceres, Jupiter and Europa. As the Kuva Fortress is made of asteroids, Kuva itself might have been discovered in this era.
=== Neo era ===
The Orokin conquered Uranus and Neptune. 
=== Axi era ===
After the conquest of the last objects in the Origin system, Pluto, Eris and Sedna, the Orokin set their sights on the Tau System. Their first attempt at colonizing the system was the Zariman Ten Zero. However, the void jump failed and most adults became insane. After a deal with The Man in the Wall, the protagonist splits into two: the Drifter, who remained in the Void, and the Operator, who escapes with the other children, now known as Tenno. 
After the failure of the Zariman Ten Zero, the Orokin grow increasingly desparate, and eventually accept Archimedean Perintol's plan to send artificial robots: the Sentient, to terraform the system and build a solar rail to allow easy travel between the two. 
However, the Sentients, led by Hunhow rebel against the Orokin. Initially, the Orokin were overwhelmed, with only ancient weapons viable as the Sentients hijacked their machinery. They eventually developed the Warframes, which managed to slow down the advance of the Sentients. However, they too became out of control due to the Helminth infestation. 
As a last resort, the Orokin used the Tenno to control those warframes using transference. This turned the tides of The Old War, and the sentients made a plan using the information provided by Ballas, which was named "The sequence". Hunhow would let himself be destroyed, and his daughter, Natah, would take on the form of Margulis in order to manipulate the Tenno. After celebrating the defeat of the sentients, Natah ordered the Tenno to slaughter the Orokin, marking the end of their civilization. 
The last action of the sequence was for Natah to slaughter the Tenno. She, decided not to, as she wanted children of her own.
As such, she did not kill the Tenno.Lotus: "There are gaps. I had my mission and I completed it. All but the last sequence."Teshin: "To destroy the Tenno."-Dialogue during Natah Abandoning her final objective, she phased the moon, which also housed the Reservoir, into the Void to keep it out of Sentient reach, as well as masking its location with some sort of cloaking technology to protect the Tenno from tracking by any remnant enemies."Hunhow's found it. The Reservoir, hidden in the Void, a place Sentients can never reach. We must do everything to keep it there. It's the only way to keep the Tenno's power alive." - Lotus during The Second Dream After fending off against what was left of the Sentient forces in the system, the Lotus commanded most Warframes around the Origin System, if possible, to be put into cryosleep, to preserve their bodies, although many Warframes were left in the open. The Long Dream"How could Rell have lived this long? Without the long dream?" -Lotus, during the Chains of Harrow quest was used to put the Tenno as well in a cryosleep-like state, preserving them, and effectively ending The Old War. Some still roamed about, with the occasional mission to hunt down remaining Orokin leaders as seen with .'s Leverian entry
== Collapse era ==
Between the Orokin era and the start of the game, many events unfolded.
Without centralized power, groups of people who were once oppressed were now free from the empire's shackles. In the resulting power vacuum, the Origin System saw conflict between many factions to claim domination over the territory and resources once controlled by the Orokin."With no Dax to keep the peace, and no Parvos Granum to hold the Corpus Board together, bloody land grabs were routine. The fertile fields of Reshantur changed hands many times. With each 'hostile takeover', slain workers became 'fertilizer' for the next yield of crops - tended by the survivors - and so. It. Went." - Drusus in 's Leverian entry There were attempts to rebuild the collapsed empireArid Eviscerator Synthesis imprint, but these plans were squandered by dissident groups that would eventually evolve into the Grineer and Corpus factions we know today.
The Grineer took advantage of the chaos to initiate revolts all across the system.Alluded in the Guardsman Synthesis imprint They stole Orokin ships, weapons, and managed to secure the cloning technologies that created them. During this period, the outcast Orokin Twins used this opportunity to enact revenge and began to amass armies of loyal Grineer to their cause, which eventually led to their joint ruling of the Grineer.Kuria poem
The Corpus, in the name of profit, eventually made a grab for the system shortly after the Grineer rose to power, quickly occupying wrecks and crash sites on various planets to scavenge Orokin technology and grow.Anti MOA Synthesis imprint The two factions eventually grew in strength and became equals. While the Corpus began to trade technology with the Grineer in exchange for raw materials and currency"Using a single unified currency helps reduce many problems that arise when making complex trades -- such as Grineer bidding on Corpus weaponry or Corpus purchasing raw materials en masse from various mining colonies." - Cephalon Cordylon Entry 15, the two groups continued to compete and skirmish intermittently, with planetary invasions occurring to this day.
With the collapse of the Orokin empire, the Infestation was left uncontrolled in isolated Orokin ships to spread freely across the Origin System with the occasional outbreaks."Derelict" Cephalon Fragment The extent of their reach is unknown, but their presence was not insignificant.Corrupted Ancient Synthesis imprint
Some indeterminate number of millennia later"Deep within this millennia-old Orokin-turned-Infested ship lurks a creature created to fight in the Old War. Make your way to its location and dispatch this monster." - Lotus on Lephantis"The Vallis lifeforms emerged like memories, as Venus herself remembered who she was. This, here, is one of the most distant, most precious remembrances – an original Orokin strain, unseen for millennia." - The Business on Red-Crested Vermink"Specimen VK-7, unlike the others, did not come from a gene record. She was found, frozen, in a sealed closet close to the environmental control station. Her unassuming tomb for millennia. Here, then, was an intact example of Orokin-era fauna." - Sigor Savah on Venari, the Corpus are widely considered the governing force in economics and research, with the Grineer dominating the system with their military might and brutality. The Grineer both fight with the Corpus for power and buy manufacturing supplies to support their military development.The dogs are barking again. They somehow figured out we have been stockpiling. This upsets them given how we have been tightening the leash on their contracts. The Sisters are demanding we lower our material prices or suffer retribution by some new supership they have. Obviously they do not teach economics at obedience training. - Intercepted message by Alad V during Operation Sling-Stone At one time, the Infested had all but conquered a few of the Origin System's planets but have been pushed back to their residence on drifting ancient Orokin Derelicts and recently conquered Eris, apart from the occasional outbreak on populated planets.As seen during Invasion missions as well as on Dark Sectors. All that is left of the Orokin are their terraforming efforts such as on the Orb Vallis, Venus, the few standing structures such as the Orokin Tower Unum, forgotten Prime weapons they built, and Tower ships stranded in the Void.
The Corpus now exist as money-worshiping corporations with workers worshiping the very idea of a profit. Individuals like Nef Anyo act as religious evangelist-like leaders for the normal Corpus worker. In the meantime, the Grineer research ways to overcome their genetic degradation caused by many generations of repeated cloning. At one point, Grineer researcher Tyl Regor finds and breaks open a tomb on Uranus where an ancient Sentient was held within, unknowingly reawakening an old enemy of the Origin System.The Second Dream quest
Syndicate factions also emerged, each with their own ideology on the fate of the Origin System amidst the glaring conflict between Grineer and Corpus empires from seeking the restoration of humanity on Earth to a system-wide purge to restore peace.
The Tenno are consequently reawakened by the Lotus, though their abrupt awakening leaves them with a degree of amnesia"They escaped. We are working on tracing them. Separate this Tenno from the flock and it should be easy to kill. We shattered its Warframe and expect such an abrupt Cryo purge will have damaged its memories."
-Captain Vor in his Excerpt after completing the Vor's Prize quest, forgetting their true origin as the survivors of the Zariman. As these Tenno are already connected to Warframes, the Lotus informs them of how to use it in their subsequent escape. They are then set loose upon the Origin System, either alone or in small squads to tackle a wide variety of missions designated by the Lotus to maintain a balance between the Grineer and Corpus factions or to quell Infested uprisings."The Grineer and Corpus are tireless and you are the only thing standing between them and total domination of the Origin System.I am counting on you, Tenno." - Lotus at the end of Awakening"Doctor Tengus' experiments with this plague are grossly irresponsible and have threatened the entire system. All that is needed is an infected ship to reach a populated area and we'll be unable to contain its spread. There's no controlling it; the Grineer will be in just as much peril as we are." - Lotus at the end of Once Awake
==Warframe Era==
===Tenno Awakening===
====Awakening====
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====Vor's Prize====
====Once Awake====
====The Archwing====
===Discovery of the Arcane Machine===
====Stolen Dreams====
====The New Strange====
===The Revelation===
====Natah====
====The Second Dream====
====The War Within====
====Chains of Harrow====
===The Lotus' Disappearance===
====Apostasy Prologue====
====The Sacrifice====
===Prelude to War===
====Chimera Prologue====
==== Alad V's Amalgams====
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====Erra====
====The Maker====
====Operation: Scarlet Spear====
====Operation: Orphix Venom====
===The New War===
====Veilbreaker====
====The Duviri Paradox====
===Post-New War===
====Angels of the Zariman====
==== Whispers in the Walls ====
==== The Lotus Eaters ====
==== The Hex ====
==Alad V Arc==
As Alad V plays an important role during the events of The Second Dream, knowing his history with the Tenno is paramount to understanding why he was so eager to helping them, despite being of Corpus origin. 
===The Zanuka Project===
====The Gradivus Dilemma====
====The Hunt For Alad V====
====Suspicious Shipments====
===The Mutalist Experiments===
====Operation: Breeding Grounds====
====Operation: Mutalist Incursions ====
====Patient Zero====
==== Operation: Tubemen of Regor ====
===Post Second Dream===
====Operation: Shadow Debt====
== References==
Category:Lore
Category:Dark Sector Reference