#railjack crew

[camyreknowswhatyouhavedone]

My crew really doesn't mess around huh

[bad-pun-king]

I've been really into Warframe recently. Had some thoughts about railjack crews that I wanted to get out there. May talk it over with my Warframe buddy that's played a lot longer than me sometime to refine the thoughts a bit.

As it currently stands you can have crewmates from up to 3 out of 8 sources. Syndicate crewmates from the Arbiters of Hexis, Cephalon Suda, New Loka, the Perrin Sequence, the Red Veil, and the Steel Meridian, and nemesis crewmates which can be either kuva liches or sisters of Parvos that you've converted into allies.

Syndicate crewmates have randomly generated stats, using either 8 points if they're bought with credits, 10 for resources, or 12 if they're elite crewmates. They can also have 3 extra points added to whichever stat you want via training, and can be given rifles, shotguns, or any secondary weapons you own to use, even using your build of said weapon. If you get crewmates associated with syndicates that favor you you can even get discounts of up to 50% off to hire them, but syndicates that don't like you will add up to 100% tax so they're more expensive.

Nemesis crewmates are excellent defenders with far better combat and endurance stats then any syndicate crew can get, but unlike syndicate crew they can only be defenders, their stats cannot be altered, and they will only use whatever kuva/tenet weapon they've always used.

Which brings me to my main thoughts of adding crewmates from settlement syndicates. These settlement crewmates would probably be locked behind being minimum rank 2 in their relevant syndicates, and unlike with faction syndicate crewmates their prices would not fluctuate based on standing. But they always have a guaranteed max level in 2 stats, have a wider range of weapons they can be equipped with, including some melee weapons, and get bonuses to damage using modular weapons from their associated syndicates. The tradeoff is being more expensive to get than even crewmates from syndicates that are neutral to you.

Cetus and Fortuna crewmates are easy to justify from a lore perspective. Both are colonies of people with npcs to spare, just like the main syndicates. You can access Cetus crewmates once you're a Visitor in the Ostron and an Observer in the Quills, and they get damage multipliers for using zaws. You can access Fortuna crewmates once you're a Rapscallion in Solaris United and an Agent in Vox Solaris, and they get damage multipliers from using kitguns made with parts from Rude Zuud with higher damage for every Zuud part used.

Necralisk crewmates are harder to justify in lore since the Entrati are a single family rather than an entire colony like the Ostron and Solaris, but its not that much harder. Instead of Entrati themselves, Necralisk crewmates are people that were marooned on deimos and either survived long enough to stumble across them or got rescued by the Entrati, similar to Latrox and Garv that sometimes show up in Mother's bounties. You get access to them from being an Aquiantance in the Entrati and Clearance: Modus in the Necraloid, they get damage multipliers for using kitguns made with parts from Father, and like with their Fortuna counterparts, higher damage for each Father part used.

The only settlement syndicate I think is too difficult to do this with right now is the Holdfasts. There's only 4 of them. Maybe if there's a way to convert void angels back into holdfast-like ghosts that could be an explanation, or maybe they end up rescuing people that get stranded in the Void or Planes of Duviri. Something along those lines could allow for chrysalith crewmates. If they did find a way to justify it, you could get access to them by being a Watcher for the Holdfasts, and would get damage bonuses from incarnon weapons as opposed to modular weapons since the Holdfasts have those instead.

[swampmotherrr]

Sono literally talks about having eaten one of his crew mates on a red veil ship like he’s God, meanwhile Goss is super depressed about how common cannibalism is in Grineer culture these two are gonna get along just FINE 👀;