Hello everyone, and welcome to Living by the Law, the podcast discussing fictional worlds and how wondrous and ridiculous they are. My name is Matt, and I'm joined by my co-host, Julian Guy. In this episode, we begin our exploration of the Warframe universe, diving into the origins of the Origin System and the Orokin that rule it, as well as their terrible, oppressive culture. For such fun rhymes, it's a real depressing time.
Enjoy. Warning, this episode contains spoilers for the Warframe main story missions, as well as mentions of slavery, torture, and other terror blacks. With the world in the current state that it is, I was thinking the other day, how dare you, I'm not someone personally who would sign up for the military. I don't think I'm built for that.
But, what technology, from fiction, would convince you, and I give it to you, to use the military, to sign up? In this hypothetical, I'm going to say, we're fighting robots from space. Space robots are invading us. So you're not killing people, you're signing from the military.
What technology would convince you to sign up? The guy is actually taking off shoes, that's very distracting. His toes are out. I'm relaxing, because I was worried about my pivot for this episode, but you've set me up so beautifully, so I'm just happy with this.
Honestly, that's about my destruction, right? My dogs, local warfare. You're going to hate me, but my brain goes to one place and one place immediately, because I think it would be cool as fuck to have. I mean, in modern times, there's some form of cool armor suit, obviously.
But, invent the ability to be a Mistborn from Brandon Sanderson's world, and I will fight any army of robots you need. Being able to go through, imagine a whole fucking wave of robots coming at you, Duraly and Steel Cush, they will get destroyed. We'll just pull them apart. Have you ever seen that?
There's a scene from the Clone Wars scene from the earliest Clone Wars show, where there's three animations. Yeah, where Mace pulls all the nuts out. He destroys thousands of battle droids in one fight. Like, ultra battle droids, and it's so sick.
He crushes them all. Yeah, like he loses his lightsaber and just throws him through his hands. I can punch him through the guy. Like, that scene of a punching battle droid, and then the scene in the background of one of the movies of a clone trooper just trying to punch a battle droid.
It shows up, Chad. No, yeah, that. I'm just taking a second to find an item. Guys, guys, actually pull this floor down.
I'm browsing my Steam library to find a game that I'm thinking. That, I can see reflected in the way Steve's eyes. So, give me some form of allomancy, and you best believe I'm signing up for the military, if that's what I can become. I'm not sure how much storm-wise stuff, just being able to control the fundamental forces like flying and gravity.
Yeah, some of them will be more useful than others, but if you've reached the third ideal, and you have your blade, then that's going to be pretty fucking sick. Because you're just going to, as discovered, shell blades just cut through anything and everything that's non-organic, so you're just going to fucking go whirlwind mode. I feel like there's a lot of different things that gives you a partner or a friend. So, like, there's Pokemon, they give you a friend.
There's the Spren from the Master Sheep. If you look at the Master Sheep Armour, there's the AI, Cortana, who lives in a suit. A lot of those will be very comforting. It's nice to have a friend you can fully trust.
Also, what's the, is it Titanfall, the one where you have a friend with a big robot? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can get a Big Mac. So fighting big robots with a big robot is your answer?
Yes. I respect that immensely. I'm a big fan of this. I also think Ben 10's Army Tricks is a sick weapon.
I'm going fucking crazy. I cannot find the game that I'm thinking about. But my two answers are much more sci-fi. Well, yours was sci-fi-ish, but sci-fi in a different way.
You're going more armor. I'm going more device. Polar gun. Polar gun.
Polar gun kind of thing. I get home from war. I have my leg blown off from a landmine, because for some reason, despite the fact that I have a polar gun, I still got a landmine, because that's reasonable. As I looked at the previous episode, guy does not like me to go with landmine.
Landmine bad. That's my hot take today. Guy would be the guy in the group that set a landmine in a war thing, wouldn't he? We had explicit multi-day planned out plans to all ride here in one car, and I fully ignored them this morning.
So, yes, absolutely. Well, I was waiting in the group chat to hear a message from Guy saying, how are you tracking, waiting to leave my house. And then like 15 minutes later, I get a selfie of him in the studio, and I'm like, what? How did you make it through a landmine?
That was crazy. We had our lovely guide from World Challenge, who was a, I think, a retired military, genuinely special forces, guy who is now a big keeper. We had a little lady played. And he played a lot of, not Mariah Carey, Katie Perry on the cast speakers.
We had a little, we had a guy, a very small lady, very nice, who was called Me. Not even joking. Nice. His name was Me.
And she was great. I know it's like, it's probably, it's pretty racist, but it's the joke from, uh, it's the joke from, uh, Rush Hour. Yeah, yeah. Where it's like you.
Oh, yes, yes, yes. You and me and stuff like that. My second one, which was from a game I could not find on here, was part of this game to describe very rapidly. Basically, you just discover a little programming device that lets you reprogram reality.
So you can go like, door.open, you just have to find the door IDs and stuff like that. It's like, that is programming, great for me. Okay, give me a wonder wishing at that point. You fucking asked.
I have to like, the guy answer. The keys to keys to kingdom. Great. That'd be great.
You want to have a great time? I'm going to have a great time. I can't recreate a version of Charblades. What were we finding originally again?
Robots from space? Yeah. Speaking of robots from space. Speaking of robots from space.
Space, uh, male armor. You've got it all. We put them on a tee. Yeah.
We teed them up. Come on, swing. You also popped the button. I popped the button.
That's why I waited for like a very minute pause in the conversation. You popped the button, so for free to redo that. Sorry. Sorry.
I will be looking at it. Oh. You know what? No, that's fine.
I'm good. No, I'm good. Swim off. I did, Jenna did say to me the other day, I'm in my slut era, apparently, which I respect.
I like that. Yeah. You never got a slut era, really? Because you met your girlfriend in high school.
I never had a slut era? Because you met your girlfriend in high school. So true. Well, I thank you for that every day.
Warframe! That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, for sure. A Patreon-requested episode today.
We've got Warframe. Today, specifically, we're going to be discussing how the setting of Warframe came about as it is when the player enters the game. Wild. Given that it's the start of the game when you load in the first time, you know, should be normal-ish.
For these two episodes, we're going to be talking about the basic state of the setting we're in, which is the origin system, and who the movers and shakers are, so the general factions that we've got. Patreon episode was requested by, if I'm remembering right, I'm going to hear this in Matt's voice. Blitzbandit. Oh, there it is.
Yeah, I did remember it. We've had a great recreation of my voice. I thought so. But also, people say that they can't tell us apart.
Which actually drives me crazy. What do you mean? I think it's a blessing. I don't usually like to send my voice.
It's a thing I just want me to get over. And I love to send your voices a little bit all day, so I appreciate that. It's nice to hear that, honestly, people. But yeah, Blitzbandit requested, Warframe.
Thank you so much for this, Blitzbandit, our Procedure Law Keepers. And if you would like to request your own episode, you can get on them by Patreon.com and become Procedure Law Higher. After three months, you get to request an episode. Yeah.
Yeah. We try to limit them, and they keep coming. And boy, howdy. You guys.
We don't want to limit them. What do you mean? There's some passion ones out there, and there's some ones that I see coming in, and I kind of dread. When the Friday Night's Freddy ones in, you do that in front of that, like a bullet for a president, and I respect it so much.
I'll be totally honest, I saw Warframe come in, and I played Warframe once in 2015. So it wasn't super like, oh, amazing. I asked a guy at work about it, who plays Warframe a lot. I went, are there any funny parts of Warframe that you can reference, like quick stuff, so I can have a jump-off point to kind of grow the script around?
He's like, no. I go, all right. I feel like every person has a friend, a co-worker who plays Warframe. Can I have a co-worker who plays Warframe and talks to me about it?
He was from the other day, how they had a spider mech to Warframe, and everyone was really fucking excited about it. People get excited about a lot of stuff. I think I know what a spider mech is. Some of the recent expansions are interesting.
That's one of the things I've learned about. But I'll say this, I didn't get excited for it, but the more that I've died into it, the more that I am, again, in love with it. So please join our Patreon, send us stuff. We'll just join the Discord and chat about shit you love, because it's delightful to learn about these things.
I've never met a human being that plays Warframe. You've never met a human being. I've played Warframe for 20 minutes. Warframe.
Warframe. We're not human beings. Have you actually played it? Have you actually played it?
For like 20 minutes, yeah. We're in this for listeners' imagination. You're not on Spotify right now, or YouTube, whatever. You're just, you're dreaming right now.
Delightful. Well, of course. Wake up, Blitzbandit. Wake up.
Sam from Ohio. Sam from Ohio. I'm just calling out the name of the place. That's going to be someone eventually.
Of course. One of our patrons, they're like, well, how did they find me? We cannot get ahead of ourselves. We've got to start with the basics.
That's right. Back to old ones, we can listen to this. Warframe is a TPSMO action RPG being a third-person shooter. Can you pretend that I don't know what any of those acronyms mean?
You hit halfway through the sentence while I was saying? He didn't know what those were. I'm saying what the acronyms were. That's the bracket part after the first bit, because that one's a joke, because I knew all I didn't get it.
Dude, if you wait, he'll explain things. I don't know. He doesn't wait. You know how we do these times because we don't let you get to the end of the sentence?
Yeah. Let me get to the end of the sentence. Okay. Now on, we'll be silent.
We'll not ask a single question. Don't interject. This is cause inspection. You want me to interject?
I was only doing a sentence. Anyway, Warframe is a TPSMO action RPG. You don't get the context now. Third-person shooter, TPS.
Multiplayer online, not MMO. Massively multiplayer online, because massively multiplayer online, you can run into people while you're wandering around. Warframe, don't do that. You can play online with friends.
It's the kind of game I've seen Swarm, it's the same with Destiny, I get them confused a bit. Every time I see it, I'm like, oh, that's cool. I've never touched the lore, so I'm really excited to just learn what the hell I'm talking about. Of course.
Warframe is set in a sci-fi future. Tens of thousands of years from now, our real human reality, they are connected, but still in our own solar system, now called the Origin System. Missions in the game happen across the various planets and their moons, as well as some of the dwarf planets on the outskirts, all those various fun pieces, as well as a couple of wildcard locations we'll get to shortly. The various factions that we fight against, with and against, are somewhat biologically split, but ultimately are all traced back to humans.
They're not aliens. So, I don't know if that counts. So it came from our solar system? We sent it from our solar system to go somewhere else, it came back an alien species, basically.
That's like a 50 alien, yeah, I get a 50. See, there's two times that happens, don't worry about it. You play as a tenno, who, to quote the intro cutscene, are monuments from an ancient warrior caste, scattered across frail worlds, who fought back, bringing an end to an empire. Then, they left.
Oh, nice. You control a warframe, a cool-looking robot, sort of robot body, so robot aliens were there, with cool abilities like magnetic or electrical manipulation, as well as sick movement abilities and gun skills. The game opens with you being woken from your slumber, being attacked by a guy who looks like a big roast chicken. I'm woke?
You're woken, you're woken after some period of time, which the timeline doesn't clarify. Oh, you're finally awake. Yeah. I'm going to send a picture of a chicken man to the chat, you don't have to describe him, I'm just doing this for you.
He is a chicken man. He's a chicken man. Yeah. He's Captain Vore.
Any fans of Skyrim? It's very Hagraven as well, actually. He kind of looks like the guy from the Barbie movies who's evil. He's not that guy.
He's very flamboyant and evil. Are you talking about a giant gosling? No, not in the movie, from the original Barbie movies. Okay, if you say the Barbie movie, I'm not going, oh, of course, Barbie Princess Adventures.
I look up Barbie, animated movies, evil guys. There's a few of them. He comes up first with their first pick. Okay, no, I do know him.
That's from Nutbush. No, The Dance of the... He's in a few. He's in a couple of them, yeah.
Anyway. The Primanger. What the fuck is going on? Well, to tell you that, we need to backtrack just a little bit to a few hundred or thousand timelines not clear.
Don't worry about it. There isn't an answer. It just is what it is. A hundred or thousand years before the opening cutscene, to meet the focus of today, the main event, the main perpetrators, the first great group that we will be looking into, named the Orokin.
Oh, okay, again. It's actually the origin. Sorry, the G there. No.
No, it's Orokin. I'm pretty sure. It's Orokin. Yeah, it's Orokin.
Yeah, let me spell it. The Orokin. The Orokin are a race, quote-unquote, slash social class that in this time rules the origin system with an iron fist. The Orokin exert their power from their home of Lua, which is the moon, and have done so over a hundred if not thousands of years at this point by using a combination of highly advanced technology and, more specifically, and more often, highly advanced bioengineering.
They did have amazing tech, and they still do, to some degree, have some hardware stuff, but they stop using that by the time of the game due to problems, which we'll get to. They don't like the hardware? The hardware doesn't like them. Sort of spider-looking thing.
Ew, I don't like that. And generally have some amount of gilding over their bodies, including their perfectly symmetrical faces. They wear sometimes subtle, more often ostentatious outfits resembling something like sci-fi Greek robes and chains. Should I have left the description to you?
I apologize. No, no, no. It's better that way. I love having it described to me, honestly.
Excellent. I feel my ears. They're kind of hot. They are.
That is the entire point. The Orokin very strongly value beauty and youth and all these sorts of, you know, wonderful things. Matt keeps looking at the image of the long fingers, to which all I want to say is, what those hands do. What those hands do?
Get away from me. It's hyper into bioengineering. So at the point that they are asked, it is essentially playing with a character customization. And at some point, Felucian and long fingers were hot.
It's in. It's in. I was thinking, like, you said thousands of years after. Evolving up a thousand years is going to be very quick.
So bioengineering makes a lot of sense. Yeah. No, so it's hundreds of thousands of years from now. It's thousands of years before the opening of the scene.
It's hundreds of thousands. Oh, yeah. It's a very fucking long time. That's still very fast for evolution.
Oh, 100%. But with their focus being on bioengineering, it makes sense. Being the ascendant regal group that they are, the Orokin have performed so many crimes against this existence, including, but not limited to, almost completely draining the system of resources, causing irreparable damage to most of the planets. We wouldn't do that.
No. They created, using their bioengineering, a slave race called the Grineer. Once again, we also want to do that. What the actual fuck?
Why? And as well, I've written here, oppression, open brackets, various, close brackets. So this is, they genetically modified some of the humans to be the slave race. So, unclear, exact specifics.
Likely, yes, they took DNA samples and grew them. They are, the Grineer are ultimately clones. I see. So, can you spell that?
G-R-I-N-E-E-R. Oh, they're just a little gross, guys. I will also say, to clarify, a lot of the images you're going to get are those of the Grineer in the current day, which is minorly different from how they are originally. But also, we don't know what they looked like originally.
A lot of this stuff to clarify as well is speculation based on a fuckload of logs. Which is your favourite, guys. I love it. I love it.
No, no, no. Godspeed to the people on the Warframe wiki, which are Digital Extremes hosts. God, thank Christ for a game company that hosts their own wiki. And while I'm here as well, thank you to Starlord D, S-T-A-L-L-O-R-D, D, there's two Ds, who's like the foremost YouTube expert of a lot of very nice lore videos.
He's a big source of inspiration for this particular thing. So basically, one day, this society went, you know what, blue skin, totally in. Totally in. Blue fingers, totally in.
Exactly. Oppression, totally in. Absolutely. I can get the blue fingers part.
No, sorry, the blue part. Not the fingers. Matt's got the blue fingers in his mind. It's like.
I don't know. Blue's kind of exotic. The various forms of oppression that they create. I've got a sub list.
Sorry, go get into this. Oppression, various. Includes forced genetic mutation. Restricting access to technology for lower classes.
Essentially forcing serfdom on a lot of the population. Stealing kids. And torture. Torture extending to sub list and sub list.
Cutting hands off the ceiling. Execution, which is the honourable way to go, which is a thing called the Jade Light, which is, if you know D&D, this is great. Yeah, that's cool. At least it's a quick way to go.
It's the honourable way. If they don't like you, though, they will do what's called glassing, which is turning someone into a cephalon, which is essentially a robot. They track your consciousness inside an inanimate object and will run your consciousness for all eternity. Quite often these are used as ship computers.
Yeah, that's fucking, that's fucked. It's that type of like, scalpel precision type of cruelty. Where it's like, we're not just needlessly bloodthirsty or anything. We have scientifically perfected the worst possible torture.
Oh, I know. If we ever be able to create, like, synthesize the mind, the human mind, the horrors that will exist, it's probably the worst thing we'll ever do. Absolutely. Have you seen White Christmas?
Yeah, I literally wrote Black Mirror on this thing. The White Christmas episode haunts me still today. It's really bad. Final crime, we've escaped the sublist, we're no longer in the oppression or torture, we're now just back in the general crimes.
Final crime, Meat Tower. A lot of the societal awfulness that I've listed in this sort of issues list stems from the fact that the Orokin is less of a race and more of a faction. I'm sorry? Are you good?
Are we going to get to the Meat Tower? Are you going to tell us about this? You can't just say Meat Tower and then keep going. I think you told us a photo of the Meat Tower yesterday and it scared me.
They were viewing it. They were harvesting at the meat. Where does the Meat Tower go? Okay.
If you are a space-bearing race who needs to very quickly expand across the stars and doesn't particularly like using hardware technology and instead likes using bioengineering, what's the fastest way to make a place to live? I don't know. You create a seed that you can plant in the ground that grows into a Meat Tower. Is that really the best thing we can do?
That's what they're into. You know what also does that? A tree. You plant a fucking tree.
It's just a tree. Why does it have any meat? Because that's what they're good at making. Just take fucking leaves, okay?
Is it alive? No. I think it depends on your definition of those things. Can it think?
Probably not. What can you probably? I don't know. I've never talked to one.
A lot of the societal awfulness stems from the fact that the Orokin are less of a race and actually more of a faction or realistically to be more accurate, a ruling class. The Orokin are in fact the ruling class, a small few, and are kept immortal through their use of continuity. So to verify, I can put it in here, they're ruling class over a number of other people who generally would be classed by us as normal humans. These guys are specifically the ultra-wealthy who have figured out how to make themselves blue.
They took all the bioengineering and said you can't have it. Correct, correct, correct. It's behind paywall. There are a couple of tiers to the Orokin in terms of their ranks.
I didn't super go into it, but there's like researchers. So essentially if you become a god-tier scientist, you get to be part of the Orokin ruling class and they just take advantage of your skills. They just remove you from normal society. Wow, exactly.
Continuity, to explain as well very quickly what the Orokin are up to, is a ritual involving consuming some rare space juices before invading the mind of another person. This is often those stolen children that I mentioned, as the Orokin are always desiring beauty, youth, and perfection. And they do that by taking over the slave kids' bodies to live forever. And when I say, by the way, invading, I do mean invading.
They are not swapping with the children, they are taking over their minds, removing them, and their old body dies. Precision-engineered dickhead race. Yeah, this is the same thing from Lockwood and Co. Spoiler for Lockwood and Co.
But the ultimate villain has been staying alive for like a hundred years because she transferred consciousness into her granddaughter's body. True, true. Nice, nice, nice. Yeah, I'm fucking horrific.
I got my season two of that show. Dude, it's such a good season. It's so good. It's a good show.
I did also mention the Grineer. Quickly covering off again, the Grineer are genetically engineered to be perfect slaves, variable free will, and a desire to serve the Orokin. I have a big quote here, but it's probably not, I can come back to it maybe, but essentially it's just a chanting song as they're doing some mining with one small part that I will quote here. Just make a robot.
You have the tech. Here we go. Who wants to be an enslaved race? He's British, so you take a thing.
Sorry. Yeah, I need to be put in my place. So, yeah, since my ancestors, how are you going, huh? I am Irish.
I would like you to pay a little, you know? To clarify what is happening right now, the Orokin are on a mining base that are being attacked in the middle of war. They are slave laborers, they are still doing mining, and they are kind of powerless time to roll a hit. I picked up my zone.
Holy shit, you kill it! You killed them! I can't tell you. Yeah, I was going to say, what am I fighting?
Eh, we'll find out a bit. Don't worry about it. Fucking guy. Yes, so, delightful.
So the Grenier are clones, clones, clones, clones, clones, stretching back so far that it's too long. All of them have genetic defects that lead them with disabilities and have a very short lifespan. However, even though they're clones, which make more of them. Because I like the royal families.
Yeah, go on. I will give you a small, shiny little beacon of light. Spoiler for the future of this race. They do eventually mutate and get a little bit nasty with it and mutate a sense of dignity in self.
Damn. Because that wasn't originally in their engineering. Good on them. I'm proud of you.
We will come back to these guys later, don't we? Grineers? Grineers. Sorry, I'm proud of you.
No, it's all good. I don't know why I said that. To the next race, the corpus. While the Orican are the rulers, the Grineer are the base sort of layer of Orican society, the majority of the middle class are, as I said, relatively normal people.
For a long time, they were, as mentioned, more or less serfs being farmers, tradespeople, that sort of thing. However, a cultural revolution came about, led by a man named Parvos Granum? Granum. If I pronounce things wrong, get fucked.
A child from a grain farming family, as he visited an Orican city, he marvelled at the wealth and ostentatiousness on display, the gilded city streets, all this sort of stuff when his family had so little. So, being goaded, he snapped and stole a few gems off a gate in the city, and he did immediately get stolen, got by the guards, lost his hand for his efforts, but on the outside, managed to swallow one of the gems. Nice. Got away with it.
Seeing that he dropped a bunch of the gems that he'd picked up and he'd lost his hand, he'd paid the price, obviously, so he got back to his farm, pretty deathly sick, and eventually vomited the gem back up. Minus one hand, plus one gem. Minus one hand, plus one gem. Seems like a failure to me.
He then takes it, I don't know, back to the city or someone else, doesn't really matter, it doesn't make sense with the money amounts, but I'm not a little offence. He takes it to some, well, not technically offence, because he doesn't actually just rape porn it, he pawns it for a loan. To a bank? To a bank of some sort, and then uses the money that he gains to raise those around him with that money.
Sort of Robin Hood-esque character. He began teaching people a new way to live, a new form of finding meaning in opposition to the Orican's laziness and decadence, a true purpose, making shitloads of money. Fuck yeah. When his father, his name is Parvam Granum, Parvos Granum, sorry.
Fuck yeah, Parvos. A couple years later, when his father keeled over in the backyard of their farm, he bulldozed it and began building what would eventually become the city of Corposium. I think it's Corposium. More importantly, the home of his new faction, The Corpus.
I thought he was going to get a casino. I mean, to be honest, it's kind of better. The Corpus are a mercantile guild at its very end point, an entire society essentially built around ensuring that the products were delivered well. Essentially, just full corporate value society.
I do. It's better than the It's better than the It's better than the It's better than the current system. It's kind of like going from feudalism to capitalism. I don't know where I saw this.
It's not strictly true because the Corpus do exist. But I did see somewhere, I don't think it's true, but it may be a laugh. The Orican, I think, had at one point banned capitalism because it gave the lower class too much of a chance to raise to the highest echelon society. They were like, no, no, no, you could make money in this system.
It's possible. No, no, no. We're not having this. They went back to feudalism.
Exactly. They went back to peasants. But yeah, I mean, respect the hustle in the hard times. You've got to respect the hustle.
Oh, he's on his shit. He's working hard. This guy, I will say, I do believe lives for a few thousand years and the, spoiler, we get to it eventually, but they also kind of like a secondary faction that are super plain to the main story so I'm happy saying this here. The Corpus eventually do become like hyper-religiously focused on profit and money.
Like entire religious structure around just getting dollars which is hilarious because I don't, well, no, but I also don't know who they're trading with at that point because they are essentially a society in and of themselves. Where's the money going? There's people that they trade with outside but they're usually trading good for good because it's a different society. They're not using money.
I think that what it may be is that they're looking for profit in a raw trading sense more than strictly money but also it says money a lot. Hey, Kyle, it grows the economy. It grows the economy. Benefits everybody.
Relations down. Hurts nobody. Crazy. That's my favourite trope by the moment.
It grows the economy. It grows the economy. Matt, Matt. It's all over.
It's all over. It's all over. So, returning to the main group. We have a, a second.
It's the, oh my gosh, it's a biblical reference, isn't it? It's like the revelation. Rapture. Rapture.
Thank you. Very direct now that you say that. I don't, not that I've looked at the script. It's similar, right?
It's like, it's just so direct. Oh, okay. Right. Yes, asterisks.
Rapture was very much free market capitalism in terms of like, we're going to do anything to get money, inhumane experiments, all this sort of stuff. We don't strictly see corporates doing that as much as they are more straight resource extraction from outside our society. So they themselves are chill with each other. It's very corporate.
Their leaders are a board of seven people, which is hilarious. That's their ultimate government is the board. Nice. Because every time the CEO comes and he fights the rest of the board.
The CEO, I think it's sent, I think they killed him at one point and he comes back. I don't fully remember that story because again, they're not the main characters. Back to the main characters. No, no, totally fine.
We have a disgusting, hyper-imperial, regal class at the head of a strictly stratified civilization. The Orokin, having a tiny moment of awareness, realized that draining the origin system of all of its resources might have been a bad idea and that they might need to move soon. They set their sights on the Tau system, a neighboring star system which promised plenty more planets to distract resources from. Depends on how you look at it.
Anyway, they began experimenting with ways to get to this new place. Enrich, develop, colonize, some would say. Bring sophistication. Exactly.
Civilize. They began experimenting with ways to get to this new place, having traveled thus far across the solar system but not outside of it. Here, we meet someone who plays a major role in storytime, an Orokin by the name of Albrecht Entrani. Albrecht Entrani.
I don't know why, I have a pronunciation guide but I wrote it before I've read the rest of the script and watched the rest of the videos so I know the proper pronunciation but original name was like it. Albrecht Entrani? Albrecht Entrani. Albrecht Entrani.
I'll be referring to him as Albrecht from now on or I'll be referring to the Entrani family but they don't come up super often so Albrecht is generally him. Why don't you call me Albrecht? I won't. I'm going to call this guy Albrecht.
Albrecht was a renowned Orokin scientist. Orokin scientist. What? That sounds like.
No, I just, anyway. Orokin scientist? Orokin? It's Orokin.
You can Orokin? No. Sadly not. Albrecht was a renowned Orokin scientist who established himself as a foremost expert on the Void and how it could help be used for the betterment of Orokin society.
So every time he sends a word we have to ask we're like oh Guy what's the Void? Play the fucking game Matthew. Say it. Say it to me.
Excuse me Mr Guy. Mr Witheros. Yes. Thank you.
What's the Void? I'm so glad you asked. For many years Albrecht has been studying the Void a theorized place that existed behind tears in reality that opened and closed across the origin system. I for the fucking life of me cannot find original references to where these things started if they were doing the things they eventually do to be very vague about it they started doing weird shit later on but I don't know if they were doing it at the start because everyone who is talking to Albrecht is like you're a dumb motherfucker stop looking into this there's nothing in there the random tears in reality that open up lead to some sort of anti-space that's empty that's why it's the Void there's nothing there.
Too bad telling him there's nothing there is going to make him one of the more. That's fair however for many years Albrecht had been studying this these studies have long been a dead end with Albrecht being labeled a crackpot essentially finding nothing no energy none of the theories working doesn't make any fucking sense it's called Nobrecht until he proved himself correct opening a gateway to the Void and proving that it existed Albrecht and his team found a way to harness the power of the Void I should put a description here of what Void is in general terms it's a sort of sub-dimension pocket dimension of energy chaos kind of anti-matter 40k the warp I believe is very close except less demon-y hellish more like the abyss from Dungeons & Dragons sort of dark energy like Stranger Things the upside down is it an opposite world? not strictly it's energy when they're looking at it most of the time so is it dark energy or anti-matter? I would term it as close as to anti-matter dark matter honestly dark matter like in space where it's like theorizing something that fills the space is probably quite fair it's also a 4th dimensional space which I mean technically everywhere is 4th dimensional space depending on how you interpret the universe but that's why the Voids are opening up is it's just this cloud of the universe sort of intersecting with our own so that's where the tiers are coming from just as a brief explanation of what it's there Albrecht and his team found a way to harness the power of the Void and created the heart of Deimos a device that can provide void power to the entire origin system which the Orican used to power solar rails short-range FTL jumps between planets so essentially there's a marker on land a marker on the other kind of a string of some sort might be big or something else whatever it is that they can hit one side of it power with void energy appear on the other side it is like a wormhole very wormhole very 40k in terms of that sort of dipping into the other world to get through I thought solar rails this doesn't sound like solar power but solar you mean tell from the start of the start solar yes technically that's what they want to use it for they haven't got there yet they're still within their own solar system so for the time being we've got a bunch of these different planet things it works short-range there's no reason not to as far as we can see it's an entire dimension full of this energy so let's fucking rip it this is like magic at this point right it's like magic I mean it's the most magical we'll get yes everything magical and weird like that comes from the voice anytime you get like a thing where I'm like it's an energy that uses to do things that break physics it's magic I would certainly turn it as the MacGuffin of this setting for sure the technology would also be used as the solution for travelling to the tower system which we were having a problem with before as they just needed to build a rail from their system to the tower system and instant travel between these two systems would hypothetically be possible or at least much much much faster if nothing else it's like the nether in Minecraft do you have to have something on the other side to catch you yes well with their current technology they have to have guided jumps between two beaches the rail is a video game in the sense of once you've travelled to this place you can fast travel it's almost like the nether around the mechanic don't worry about it however the rail system didn't the termination point, as you pointed out to my next thing.
He survived the giant, he can survive this. He's a cyclops. Here's a quick question. Are you the kind of player that will play a game like Skyrim and just walk everywhere to try and get as many different fast travels as you can and then start questing?
Or do you have a go quest and then use that to flesh out your map? Okay, I thought you were going to ask something different. I thought you were going to ask if I was one of the players who walks everywhere in-game because I'm role-playing to which I would answer. I cheat items in Minecraft because I can't be chopping down more virtual trees.
I've done it in my time. 14 years ago in Azkaban, i.e. chopping down micro-trees. It's been longer than that now.
And yeah, I walk around 100%. Okay, I played The Witcher more than I probably played Scribble recently at least. If I'm really enjoying the main quest, I'll go and do the main quest and actually go straight there. But I will travel there by a horse.
Because I like having there but also my favourite thing to do is I see all the question marks on the map, I just go travel all of them and go figure out what they are. The amount of times I've walked into a town and I've already cleared the quest because I beat the thing on the way into town. Yeah, I've picked up that old lady's necklace like four blocks. Yeah, I just walk around and fight things and if I find a quest, I'll do the quest.
It is one thing, I love that Skyrim has it built in for the first tiny part of the game but then it doesn't do it very well later past the game where if you get to Whiterun having already done Bleak Falls Barrow, you can have the unique dialogue option of after the core mage is like you need to go to Bleak Falls Barrow and get the Dragonstone and you go, oh, you mean this Dragonstone? And he's like, wow, you've already found it. The island's right about you. And it's really like, it's cool.
But then that's the only quest in the game where that happens and the rest of them and it almost punishes you. Hey, I've got a solution for you. Baldur's Gate. Yeah, you're right.
Baldur's Gate's got so much unique I love the relationship. It does, it does. The lady who's like, I need a egg from the Yankee and you go, you're going to get an egg and she's like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah, that's true.
Can I say something that I think that's maybe stopping Baldur's Gate? Yeah, yeah. I enjoyed it with someone else but I felt like the combat takes so long and it's so punishing if you fuck it up and then you have to go back so far. Are you talking about low-level D&D combat?
Yeah, basically, yeah. I felt really punishing the amount of hours I lost going back to the same fight and I was like, I literally just gave up a few times and I was like, we're not playing with someone we had a lot more fun because we were just joking about it but the amount of hours I lost because I didn't save every single time I'd stopped was so brutal. You sure rested and stuff, right? And long rested?
There's buttons for them in the middle. It took me a while to figure that way out. I got bullied to the goblin camp before I figured I could long rest. I walked into one fight and just got totaled.
I'm like, why can I walk into this and just die instantly? I was like, fuck. I was like, anyway, that's just my round. It kind of just got me really wrong in the early game because I felt really tough.
Excellent. It might be a skill issue because Baldur's Gate... It's scientifically proven if dice rolls are involved Matt has an inherent disadvantage and Baldur's Gate does everything digitally roll dice, right? So it's RNG, my dude.
Dude, I was playing a Pokemon online like in Showdown the other day and in the first four turns of the game I was hit by like three crits of flinch paralysis and I had moves that were like 89% accurate. I think I missed everyone. I think, yeah, there's something about small luck-based things that I rolled that got completely terrible. Anyway, back to Warframe.
No, totally fine. Where the fuck was I? Oh, the rail system to the town. You need a termination point.
You need something to be there at the end. The best way to do this would be to send automatons or robot little guys to go and do that for you. Send them off, point them in that direction. You reckon you're a mortal.
You can just swap into younger bodies so they're not in a hurry. And you send them very fast faster than a regular human like 5G. Correct, correct. However, unfortunately, there was a small rule where the Orokin had a rule against anything truly artificially intelligent.
So you could create robots that were smart, you know, like automata. A live language model wouldn't count. But true AI, AGI, fully illegal, do not make that. Which I think is hilarious because glassing people, i.e.
turning them into a cephalon is a thing that they do. So a biological mind in a computer doesn't count but making a computer brain that runs itself isn't allowed. I think it assumes that a biological brain in a computer is limited to that intelligence. Correct, correct.
100% exactly what they were going for. The reason it is not anything out of kindness or out of a concern for well-being is because they are worried that something will outgrow them. Oh, definitely, yeah. Of course.
Did they do this once and it fucked up like in Dune where they did this and they didn't limit all computers? They reference the seven tenets. The seven tenets have fuck all to do with this. So I don't know what they're talking about in this particular context.
Did Moses come down a second time? God's like, you need another fuck? Need some more fucking something like that, I guess. Commandments?
Need seven more? It's genuinely like there's seven commandments that are so funny if you contrast against the race because they're like kindness. Coworking. It's so bad.
I don't have them down so I'm happy for you to grab them. Seven commandments. Add warframed to that one. I'd love to look at things without anything.
I'll make sure you include Orokin as well so they might not be the right ones. There are multiple commandments for multiple things. Now if I'm not steal loot, is it? No, that's warframed to the community.
It's fine, believe the time being. So the Orokin, however, are facing the issue of if they don't make them truly intelligent it's going to be pretty rough trying to let them cross mostly thousands of years worth of travel and still be able to adapt to whatever the fuck the Tau system looks like on the other end. They do not know ultimately what is on these planets. They don't know what they look like and while these guys just ultimately need to just build a rail they also do need to terraform the planets before the Orokin gets there to make them habitable.
So there's a lot to do there. Someone from the Corpus comes into the Orokin High Chamber and is about to be executed and then goes, Guys, our ancestors didn't get scared when they saw that fire burnt things they harnessed it and does such a good speech that he gets out of being executed and instead sells his regenerating robots to the Orokin. Goat salesman. Goat salesman.
At your own execution being like, have I got a deal for you? That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Exactly.
That's in that 20% song. It's crazy. What the fuck am I on about? They still did protect themselves in one way though which is that they decided that they would make these robots they could be a AGI but traveling through the void would, I believe they said sterilize them which points to the fact that it's biological robotics but you know, whatever.
Not particularly an issue but sterilize them essentially damage them severely if they use void travel which all of the solar rails so the thing that they're building is void travel. Does it hurt humans? No. It does hurt robots.
It is a specifically engineered robot that will get hurt if it goes through the void. So essentially the logic is it'll build its way there and then if it tries to warp back and it's mad at us it will die. Fair. It's a good fail to have to build it.
Exactly. Excellent plan. Nothing could go wrong. What could go wrong though was after they send these robots off into space and then wait a couple hundred years because you know still do have to wait for them to get there.
The Orokin realized that while they may live forever the rest of the system was decaying pretty fast. Things weren't looking great for them so they started getting a bit nervous. It's not strictly like a they were about to die type thing it's more of like a we should have some back of Valencia. Enough time passed they had come up with this secondary plan and so construction of a massive ship the Zaramun 10-0 was begun.
Was done. Was made. They made a ship called the Zaramun 10-0. This colony ship would take thousands of families also don't fully google the Zaramun it's a very spoilery thing.
The colony ship would take thousands of families along with a ton of supplies to the Tau system giving the Orokin a sort of second chance alongside the solar rail plan. The Zaramun had an incredible new engine in this a souped up version of the Reliquary Drive Reliquary? Reliquary. Yes.
Reliquary. The fucking thing that the priest keeps shit in. Yeah it's a Reliquary. Yes.