LORE: What happened to humans? And how were Orokins different

[Daddy]

Well, my idea, most humans became Orkoins with brain and body implants in the near future, most likely the first human became Orokin sometime when humans first arrive on mars in the 2030's. Though not all humans ever lived in that high tech society, and some humans are still out there today.

[Venrez]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pinhead Larry 1253:

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I'm pretty sure the Orokin were humans that advanced technology with the void and that's how they got all their weird stuff.

I think I'll stick to destiny's art style...

I do have to say that even though I enjoy Warframe and play it regularly, its overall art-style has never been right with me.

Way back 5 years ago when I first tried the game, I literally couldnt play it due to how shiny, gelatinous and blurry everything looked. There was no definition. Like everything was a gigantic connected slather of goo.

Thankfully things are better now, but~

Everything looks gelatinous, or alien, or particularly the Tenno with their latex-type suits (that I like, Latex and rubber and silicone that is) but then somehow have rough, 'sharp' edges and pointy bits. Its like virtually everything in the game is made of goo or is straight out of anime like the Grineer.

This is hand-waved-away by stating the Orokin just had Mastery over everything and genetically modified many things to suit their desires. Rubbish.

Granted it is its own style, I just never really liked it.

I do all I can to make any Warframes, technology and such I own more 'suitable' and proper Sci-Fi, such as Corpus tech without the ridiculous helmets and proper plated body armor and energy fields.

Hence why I like the look of regular Vauban so much, because he is the most 'normal' and believable looking for someone in a Sci-Fi suit, even if that is technically not what Warframes are. (Yes I know). Even if he as a Warframe though is rather rubbish according to everyone.

I tend to treat the game as a cover shooter, not run-at-5000-miles-an-hour-backflip-rolling-like-Link-with-weird-inferior-asian-swords-and-capes.

I find it hilarious that the design of standard Corpus helmets would pretty much only prevent you from neck injury, but completely remove the ability to turn your head or any peripheral vision.

Grineer Guardsmen are distinctly asian in design with their headwear. "Oni" and all that.

The Ostron 'farming' cloned flesh from the insides of Orokin buildings is bizzare, disgusting and 800% reminiscent of Japanese Whaling. Even down to the tools they use, let alone fishing blocks of building from the Water.

The armor plating most Grineer troops wear is completely impractical in shape, function and design, let alone being bubbly, bulbous and weirdly rounded with stick-legs. (Even those with regular and not cybernetic legs).

Dont even get me started on Sentients. Whilst I am fully for "living" Machines with sentient self-aware AI and the like, the way they are designed and physically appear is just completely ridiculous. Animated fish-bones with rounded shapes, tentacles and 'plant matter' that is actually metallic. Just what.

No machine learning algorithim would ever design such flimsily structured objects, regardless of whatever unbreakle'ite or invincibilium or adamantium they might be made of. If you have whatever material (Nanobots) that form up the Sentients, you would form them into cohesive, structurally sound, logical and impenetrable physical constants, such as the geometric crystalline lattice or -hedron shapes the Cephalons are fond of for their intrinsic simplicity and functionality.

I mean have you seen the clothes the Ostron wear?

Particularly the Mining Crew you sometimes rescue out on the Fields?

What in the absolute hell is that.

[Daddy]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Venrez:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pinhead Larry 1253:

I think I'll stick to destiny's art style...

I do have to say that even though I enjoy Warframe and play it regularly, its overall art-style has never been right with me.

Way back 5 years ago when I first tried the game, I literally couldnt play it due to how shiny, gelatinous and blurry everything looked. There was no definition. Like everything was a gigantic connected slather of goo.

Thankfully things are better now, but~

Everything looks gelatinous, or alien, or particularly the Tenno with their latex-type suits (that I like, Latex and rubber and silicone that is) but then somehow have rough, 'sharp' edges and pointy bits. Its like virtually everything in the game is made of goo or is straight out of anime like the Grineer.

This is hand-waved-away by stating the Orokin just had Mastery over everything and genetically modified many things to suit their desires. Rubbish.

Granted it is its own style, I just never really liked it.

I do all I can to make any Warframes, technology and such I own more 'suitable' and proper Sci-Fi, such as Corpus tech without the ridiculous helmets and proper plated body armor and energy fields.

Hence why I like the look of regular Vauban so much, because he is the most 'normal' and believable looking for someone in a Sci-Fi suit, even if that is technically not what Warframes are. (Yes I know). Even if he as a Warframe though is rather rubbish according to everyone.

I tend to treat the game as a cover shooter, not run-at-5000-miles-an-hour-backflip-rolling-like-Link-with-weird-inferior-asian-swords-and-capes.

I find it hilarious that the design of standard Corpus helmets would pretty much only prevent you from neck injury, but completely remove the ability to turn your head or any peripheral vision.

Grineer Guardsmen are distinctly asian in design with their headwear. "Oni" and all that.

The Ostron 'farming' cloned flesh from the insides of Orokin buildings is bizzare, disgusting and 800% reminiscent of Japanese Whaling. Even down to the tools they use, let alone fishing blocks of building from the Water.

The armor plating most Grineer troops wear is completely impractical in shape, function and design, let alone being bubbly, bulbous and weirdly rounded with stick-legs. (Even those with regular and not cybernetic legs).

Dont even get me started on Sentients. Whilst I am fully for "living" Machines with sentient self-aware AI and the like, the way they are designed and physically appear is just completely ridiculous. Animated fish-bones with rounded shapes, tentacles and 'plant matter' that is actually metallic. Just what.

No machine learning algorithim would ever design such flimsily structured objects, regardless of whatever unbreakle'ite or invincibilium or adamantium they might be made of. If you have whatever material (Nanobots) that form up the Sentients, you would form them into cohesive, structurally sound, logical and impenetrable physical constants, such as the geometric crystalline lattice or -hedron shapes the Cephalons are fond of for their intrinsic simplicity and functionality.

I mean have you seen the clothes the Ostron wear?

Particularly the Mining Crew you sometimes rescue out on the Fields?

What in the absolute hell is that.

Yeah, I feel warframe's art style is just way too sci-fi-ish, meanwhile to be honest I liked that destiny was extremely futuristic without feeling, like, too futurtistic. Also in Destiny us humans are still alive :P

[Vulbjorn]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pinhead Larry 1253:

Yeah, I feel warframe's art style is just way too sci-fi-ish, meanwhile to be honest I liked that destiny was extremely futuristic without feeling, like, too futurtistic. Also in Destiny us humans are still alive :P

Humans in Warframe are also pretty much alive and well (unless under direct Grineer rule). Just not the same as humans right now, seeing as it is set at least 2-4k years in the future.

[WereChicken]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Vulbjorn, the walrus rider.:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pinhead Larry 1253:

Yeah, I feel warframe's art style is just way too sci-fi-ish, meanwhile to be honest I liked that destiny was extremely futuristic without feeling, like, too futurtistic. Also in Destiny us humans are still alive :P

Humans in Warframe are also pretty much alive and well (unless under direct Grineer rule). Just not the same as humans right now, seeing as it is set at least 2-4k years in the future.

Given the level of terraforming I'd say add a zero to those numbers, then again this is warfarme, so the orokin might have just magiced the planets terraformed overnight (I mean HTF do you turn a gas giant into a water world anyway, I mean yes, it has enough ice, but the gravity of all that mass would probably compress the melted water until it forms something like a hot ice planet due to the gravity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_436_b)

The orokin are all over the place with their tech, I mean why not just build a dyson swarm, you don't need to terraform another solar system for space as they are predicted to have enough land mass so every person alive today could have a continent the size of eurasia to themselves.

Given the weapons it could potentially only be a few hundred years in the future, maybe 5-6 hundred.

[Daddy]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Vulbjorn, the walrus rider.:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pinhead Larry 1253:

Yeah, I feel warframe's art style is just way too sci-fi-ish, meanwhile to be honest I liked that destiny was extremely futuristic without feeling, like, too futurtistic. Also in Destiny us humans are still alive :P

Humans in Warframe are also pretty much alive and well (unless under direct Grineer rule). Just not the same as humans right now, seeing as it is set at least 2-4k years in the future.

Well yeah, but I mean normal humans.

[Makoto Naegi]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tesper:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Pinhead Larry 1253:

But what exactly were Orokins like? How did they differ from their human predecessors?

They were in every possible way perfect, symmetrical, elegant, beautiful, but still rotten inside, greedy and selfish.
They were "immortal" tough, through a proccess of changing bodies
They've achieved this through advanced DNA modification, and their "immortality" of the Oro/soul, controlled by the Void

After doing Apostasy Prologue, "symmetrical" isn't a word I'd use to describe them. Just sayin'
¯\_____(ツ)_/¯

[Tesper]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Makoto Naegi:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tesper:

They were in every possible way perfect, symmetrical, elegant, beautiful, but still rotten inside, greedy and selfish.
They were "immortal" tough, through a proccess of changing bodies
They've achieved this through advanced DNA modification, and their "immortality" of the Oro/soul, controlled by the Void

After doing Apostasy Prologue, "symmetrical" isn't a word I'd use to describe them. Just sayin'
¯\_____(ツ)_/¯

He's the last known Orokin alive, their entire empire has fallen, the good weekly (not actually weekly) bodychanging sessions changed to be one change per millenia or so.
On the Codex's entries of Ordis you can see that Ordan refers to an Orokin or maybe even Ballas: How could he be so perfect?

[Makoto Naegi]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tesper:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Makoto Naegi:

After doing Apostasy Prologue, "symmetrical" isn't a word I'd use to describe them. Just sayin'
¯\_____(ツ)_/¯

He's the last known Orokin alive, their entire empire has fallen, the good weekly (not actually weekly) bodychanging sessions changed to be one change per millenia or so.
On the Codex's entries of Ordis you can see that Ordan refers to an Orokin or maybe even Ballas: How could he be so perfect?

So you're saying that his current condition is a result of maintaining a single body for an extremely long amount of time? That makes sense. I was just assuming that asymmetry was an Orokin standard of beauty.

[Tesper]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Makoto Naegi:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tesper:

He's the last known Orokin alive, their entire empire has fallen, the good weekly (not actually weekly) bodychanging sessions changed to be one change per millenia or so.
On the Codex's entries of Ordis you can see that Ordan refers to an Orokin or maybe even Ballas: How could he be so perfect?

So you're saying that his current condition is a result of maintaining a single body for an extremely long amount of time? That makes sense. I was just assuming that asymmetry was an Orokin standard of beauty.

That's what most makes sense to me, still, it's unconfirmed and all, but, yeah