Groups and Factions
Study the empires, families and armies, and the conflicts between them.
10 annotated files.
Each file carries a short definition, detailed notes, canon remarks, the related main-story chapters and verification sources.
The Orokin Empire
An ancient empire whose scientific splendour rested on body theft, genetic slavery and absolute class power.
OPEN FILE → 02 ZARIMAN · VOIDTenno
The independent warrior community formed when the Zariman children bonded with Warframe bodies through Transference.
OPEN FILE → 03 TAU · ADAPTATIONThe Sentients
Adaptive machines built to prepare Tau that became a conscious people during the voyage.
OPEN FILE → 04 CLONE · KUVAThe Grineer Empire
The force that grew from Orokin worker clones into the expansionist military empire of the Kuva Queens.
OPEN FILE → 05 PROFIT · DEBTThe Corpus
A technological power that turned trade, robot armies and debt relations into a religious doctrine of profit.
OPEN FILE → 06 TECHNOCYTEInfested / Techrot
A Technocyte-born ecosystem that converts flesh, machinery and cultural data within a single contagion.
OPEN FILE → 07 1999 · PROTOFRAMEThe Hex
The quarrelsome family of six Protoframes caught in Höllvania between the Techrot and the Scaldra.
OPEN FILE → 08 SANCTUM · VOIDCavia
The animals who gained intelligence and speech in Albrecht's Void experiment, and who carry its grief together.
OPEN FILE → 09 INDIFFERENCE · VOIDThe Murmur
The combat manifestations through which The Indifference reaches into reality as stone, hands, eyes and missing anatomy.
OPEN FILE → 10 ZARIMAN · CHRYSALITHThe Holdfasts
Echoes of the dead Zariman crew, sustained by the Void, and the ship's present-day defenders.
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