Conclave:Rhino/Main

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Rhino is the heaviest Warframe, combining offensive and defensive capabilities.

> This is Rhino, an immovable force and highly resilient.
> Rhino can survive alone or become the cornerstone of any squad, Tenno. The choice is yours.
>
> Lotus

**Rhino** is a heavily armored Warframe with the strength and fortitude of his reckless, stampeding namesake. Rhino trades speed for power and is designed to fill the tank role in a cell, with the capability to charge into the fray, draw enemy fire, and bend the battlefield to his will through sheer brute force.

## Acquisition

Rhino's component blueprints are acquired from Jackal (Fossa, Venus).

**Error: Item "Conclave:Rhino" not found or may have an error in Module:Acquisition/data.**All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official droptables.

**Expected** refers to *total* number of attempts a player can *expect* to need in order to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
**Nearly Guaranteed** refers to the *total* number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
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## Trivia

* "The Profit" trailer showcases the release of Warframe on the PS4 and includes Rhino as one of the screen-time characters in the plot. The trailer shows him punching his enemies without weapons, dealing tremendous damage. He is also shown not carrying any melee weapon.
	+ It was mentioned by Geoff on a Livestream (around 17 - 20) that Rhino was supposed to be using Furax in the trailer, but the model was too bulky for the animation they wanted to do, so they had him fight unarmed instead.
* Rhino is the fifth Frame to have a Prime, after Excalibur, Frost, Mag, and Ember.
* Prior to Update 19.13 (2017-03-09), Rhino required Mastery Rank 2 to build.

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 **Rhino Prime Story**

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Red lights flashing on stark, white walls. Davis is running ahead of me, dropping his notes. We're running for our lives. The fear gives me a strange perspective - I'm out of my body. I've forgotten how I got here. I don't recognize this place.

Davis and I slam pinned against a cell door and he shouts at me. I give him a dumb look. I can't hear him, the sirens, anything, only the muffled throb of terror in my head. I turn away from Davis down the hall and I see it. The hulking mass, flickering red, glinting like steel and fresh blood. Its skin changes, flowing like mercury when I'm blinded by the sudden muzzle-flashes. They do no good. The beast surges forward and the security men become crimson mist and gore.

I'm a statue, a cornered animal. A gate opens inside me and recognition floods in. 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.

I know I will die so I just watch with curious acceptance. The beast squats down, shoveling a heap of gore into its mouth. It is watching me with vague eyes, a sense of recognition, ancestral memory. It knows who I am and what I've done. It rears up like a bear and roars, shattering the lights and casting us into darkness. I can hear it lumbering toward me, it's metal fingers rending the walls, but I know I am dead. I close my eyes stand ready to pay.

I feel the pull on my arm and realize Davis got the cell open. He tugs me into the cell beyond and I fall on my back. I see Davis standing at the open door, waiting, as the monster tears towards us.

Suddenly I could live through this I shout, Davis, close the goddamn door!" - But he shakes his head eyes wide as moons. He shouts, "Watch!" over the roaring and rending of metal.

Then silence. Davis is panting, laughing? The beast fills the doorway, inches from him, dripping in blood, but still without violence. It stands there, looking at its hands. Davis whispers, "No one would have believed me."

I crawl up the wall to stand, opposite the door. I've never seen this cell, a cold place with an array of shelves. A morgue? "Where are we, Davis?"

"This is where they keep them. The ones from Zariman." I'm thrown, what was the Zariman? The ship that never returned? "Davis, what's going on?"

Davis turns to me, a smile forming - "What's going on is..." he turns back to the beast now silent and calm.

"...big fat promotions."

My opinion: The story is REALLY well done to imply the "beast" is an infested, which is entirely possible. However, it also sounds like the poor sods are dealing with Rhino, or rather, A Rhino. Some twisted, zombie form of him anyway, since it appears the originals are all truly dead if they're really in a morgue. Kind of suggests to me that the Tenno (or at least, those with primes) are clones of the originals, and some of the results were less than stellar. Alternatively, experiments might include attempting to transplant the original Tenno's powers into another human being and the technocyte virus is being a real pain in the &#! about it. Another alternative - multiple Rhino's happened, some attempts to weaponize them failed, while others succeeded.

I'm going to go with - Originals are cloned, warframes without a prime variant are artificially created with their powers, showing that the Orokin mastered creating Tenno with any power they saw fit, though the early attempts to create/replace Tenno at all weren't exactly too terribly successful.