It sucks that the "every person Albrecht gave a techrot serum to was already infected with infestation" plot point got retconned, because it would have added a really nice layer of "everything sucks, it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation".
From the Vessels fragment:
I went among the denizens of the plague year like a savior, my hands filled with healing. To those who volunteered, I brought more than health. Their bodies were primed; it needed only the Helminth infusions, brought from my own time, to work the alchemy of transformation. They have become partial Warframes, still in possession of their free will, yet enhanced, Void-attuned, capable.
Their humanity may not last. My deliverance may yet consume them, the human swallowed up in the sacred beast. And if my wayward disciples turn on me, what words of comfort shall I have beyond: this is the bargain we have made. Through our sacrifice, history will be saved.
As their loyal doctor, I have taken repeated samples from them. The sight of their Technocyte-riddled cells mutating gave me fresh visions. I could take this material, work with it, forge new creations. Eagerly I brought the samples back to Deimos and began to cultivate them.
And here is what Lettie tells us happened during KIM chats:
[..]
And when the ICR stomps its feet and says "nonono, you cannot help him distribute his drug" should have listened
Vaccines come from scientists not an old man in some ugly-ass trench coat
Selling lies like some old world snake oil
But people are dying all around you?
You help him anyway because you signed up to HELP people
So we helped him inject the people of this city with his drug
Lined them up in our tents and that cabrón and I shot them full of it one after another
And the others kept the operation safe while we worked
NOSOTROS CREÍMOS EN ÉL
We trusted him
¿Y por tan poco?
It seemed like it was working
The people we were shooting up weren't getting sick
The problem…?
Everybody around them WAS
Do you know what "silent carriers" are?
Volunteered in an animal shelter one summer cuando estaba chiquita
Had all these raccoons
Couldn't release them, because they might be silent carriers of rabies
THEY looked healthy, seemed healthy, seemed normal…
But if we let them go? They'd infect everything they came across…
That's what we were doing to people
THAT'S WHAT HE WAS MAKING US DO TO PEOPLE
¡LO HIZO A PROPÓSITO!
This place is the edge of Mictlán POR SU CULPA
Before Warframe 1999 came out: Albrecht went to the plague year of 1999 and walked among infected denizens offering healing, to volunteers he gave the Protoframe serum (their bodies were already infested, but they needed an extra dose of Helminth to change), he took samples from the infested people, analyzed them. After a discussion with Loid, Albrecht realizes he can mix the 1999 Techrot/Helminth samples with the Gray Strain to create titanic Warframes, based on the tissue samples of Arthur and the blueprints of Ballas' Warframes. The end goal is to find an Operator and fight the Indifference by piloting these giant Vessels.
After 1999 came out: Albrecht infected healthy people with techrot vaccines and they became silent carriers who infected others around them. A lot of the Protoframes were not already infected and did not come to Albrecht first, nobody mentions Albrecht taking samples from them (especially not Arthur, who seemed to be a central figure with the Vessel project); the Vessels in general are completely omitted from this discussion as it has pivoted from "Albrecht taking samples from infected people for his secret project" to "Albrecht infecting perfectly healthy people for unknown reasons".
Can you see why I am a bit miffed about Warframe 1999 and the KIM?
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