How old is operator lore-wise?

[_S4murai_0]

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[IFearSnowman]

I dont think this was ever said, but ancient as hell for sure.
They were there before the old war.

[2GenL]

Think the operator age is relative due to the timeline paradox's that have been going on in the games story.

On one hand they are kids/teenagers.
On the other hand they have been around since the before the first war, so very very old at the same time.

[Galroche]

you'll have to ask a space lawyer if time spent in cryo-sleep make you legal or not in space.

if it does, they are really really old.
if not, the age they had on the zariman (around teenager, maybe young adult if they look really young) + the time that past since they are awake (game release).
i don't think this info is ingame, with the game being ~10 years old, and the day cycle on earth being ~8h, at least 30years (though not like gameplay time need to match lore time)

[Kameh]

Well before they got all the void powers, I would say early to mid teens at most.

Spoiler ahead
well into adulthood for the other "version"

[Midas]

They're from before the fall of the orokin empire so if you've got a date for that, They're at least that old. If we had dates for when the Zariman happened that could tell us, but I don't think DE has ever given us those specifics.

[JustSmile]

Before void powers young teenagers, maybe 15ish top? After, though? Cold sleep aside, remember they remained active long enough to fight in several wars, form a myth around themselves that endured millennia, and eradicate a civilisation or two. They're hardly children, lmao.

[PhellAsleep]

Originally posted by JustSmile:

Before void powers young teenagers, maybe 15ish top? After, though? Cold sleep aside, remember they remained active long enough to fight in several wars, form a myth around themselves that endured millennia, and eradicate a civilisation or two. They're hardly children, lmao.

That's debatable. From some of the quests it seemed like they were stuck in the emotional instability of puberty. But then Balls was also an angsty little git, so who's to say if we are just that way as a result of the culture we were in?

[Z3pHyr]

~Spoiler alert if it's true...

The first universe or faction exist should be orokin right? Margulis, ballas, hunhow sentient etc should be from the same era, later margulis found tenno from zariman and rise them in that pod to help them control the void power and warframe. which later natah a.k.a space mom lotus take over.. tho it's been confusing how the drifter and man behind the wall come together from all this too if we want to link the story together..
but lore-wise tenno should be very old and maybe we can understand more on duviri paradox update.

[player7112]

OK, imagine there are two timelines, one is the young girl tenno with flat chest, another is an adult lady tenno with full-grown boobas.

Eternalism = Both timelines are reality = unable to determine age = Paradox.

[Z3pHyr]

Originally posted by blimsoon:

OK, imagine there are two timelines, one is the young girl tenno with flat chest, another is an adult lady tenno with full-grown boobas.

Eternalism = Both timelines are reality = unable to determine age = Paradox.

both tenno exist and reality no? operator stay young because they stuck in that pod but the timeline is continue like normal because margulis and later lotus take care of them.. but drifter timeline continue to survive by themselves after the zariman crash

[Everglow]

Originally posted by -|-Kameh-|-:

Well before they got all the void powers, I would say early to mid teens at most.

Spoiler ahead
well into adulthood for the other "version"

well that spoiler is technically hundreds of years old if not thousands (no where in game does it give years of the zariman accident or current time as far as im aware)

so people with void powers have slowed aging

...so its possible after the zariman accident the operators could be 30+ as well since we know they werent immediately thrown in stasis either

since the orokin empire collapsed LONG ago and how kuva made orokin live longer (as well as contiunity its possible the operator lived more then once prior to stasis)

and the cutscene of operators past on the zariman in the class room felt more like middle school then highschool but thats just opinion

so unless we know the year of the zariman accident and the current timeline its impossible to really know, all we do know is older operator is proof of slowed aging

[Aerond]

We stopped aging and our body is that of a teenager. We're still a little brat.

Man-in-the-wall happened...

[player7112]

Originally posted by Z3pHyr:

Originally posted by blimsoon:

OK, imagine there are two timelines, one is the young girl tenno with flat chest, another is an adult lady tenno with full-grown boobas.

Eternalism = Both timelines are reality = unable to determine age = Paradox.

both tenno exist and reality no? operator stay young because they stuck in that pod but the timeline is continue like normal because margulis and later lotus take care of them.. but drifter timeline continue to survive by themselves after the zariman crash

If you counts only 2 tennos as your "reality", yes they could have the same age.
But if we take Eternalism into account, there are too many tennos with variant ages, all of them are reality.

But I suck at this kind of sci-fi stuffs. Let's just say she's past 18. You may marry her.

[Soul2506]

below 18