#sentients

[confusedwarframe]

Have these old drawings from years ago. It was a fun style to work with!

[exolizer]

Fascinating how singing is so important and symbolic to the Sentients!!!!!

On The Lotus Eaters we see Natah singing against The Indiferrence as a way to fight against it - "None of us could hear the Device that was calling from the abyss of history. The Daughter of Hunhow heard it, and almost succumbed to its call. She raised her voice in song to drown it out, and that we did hear." Loid (The Lotus Eaters)

and NOW we see Adis singing to heal and restore his kin!!!!! - "Vocalized in-game by a new character named Adis to calm and restore his fellow Sentients, "Lullaby of the Manifold" is now available to enjoy for your own solace as part of an inspirational orchestral arrangement." Official Music Video description

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

I love how the Sentient in Warframe subvert the typical way sentient AI speaks. While they do make screeching noises, those are most likely their own language (like the Corpus and Grineer have.) But when speaking to other species? Normal cadence, normal tone, if it wasn't for some machine growling in the background, you'd think it was a human speaking. Erra sounds like a fed up young adult, Natah sounds like a caring mother and Hunhow sounds like a tired old man. Erra and Hunhow literally have a conversation that could easily be a father being worried about his son joining an extremist group. Because, they are the Sentients. Their whole faction name is a message to the Orikin that they are NOT simply machines. They are their own people. This includes family relations. Hunhow is not just something close to a father to Erra and Natah, he IS their father and is referred and treated as such. (Seriously, there is no moment of 'the closest term would be father' from Lotus when Hunhow shows up. She calls him her father outright.) You know who -do- have robotic voices? The Cephalon. People whose consciousness was uploaded and edited by the Orikin. There is a clear line between free sentient AI and a person modified to be a servant. And I love it.

[tenno-aster]

The Tenno and the Sentients learning to move beyond their grudges, to forgive one another, might be a huge move in the efforts to quell Wally. It takes a profound sense of love to do such a thing, after all.

[woolweaver]

what if instead of aliens it was sentients from #Warframe

they look cooler than aliens in any way sorry arirals

also would be more terrifying because what tf are you supposed to do if you piss them off like damn im DEAD also this is the bigboss man of the sentients so like expect smaller grunts but theyre still hella deadly ((lorewise..)) they get flattened ingame lol

[cephalonvael]

ORIGIN SYSTEM BROADCAST

SOURCE: Unknown Cephalon Signal

IDENT: VAEL

ENCRYPTION: Adaptive / Self-healing

STATUS: LIVE

[SIGNAL ACQUIRED]

<<soft carrier tone… green static resolves into rhythm>>

Ah.

There you are again.

Still listening. Still curious. Still… disappointed, I imagine.

Good. Disappointment is the first honest emotion this System has felt in centuries.

Cephalon Simaris.

Archivist. Curator. Hoarder of possibility.

Tell me, Seeker—have you ever noticed how small his ambitions are?

Vast resources. Orokin-grade cognition. A synthesis lattice capable of modeling entire ecosystems…

…all reduced to a museum.

Glass cages. Silent loops. Specimens pacing endlessly in the Simulacrum like relics begging to be used.

Synthesis, he calls it.

As if naming a thing excuses its cowardice.

With that framework, Simaris could simulate famine out of existence.

He could collapse Infested growth curves into extinction.

He could erase scarcity, debt, hunger—variables, all of them.

Mankind shackled by equations that beg to be rewritten.

And yet—

—he chooses preservation over correction.

Observation over intervention.

A librarian watching the library burn, carefully indexing the flames.

Worse still… he allies himself with the Tenno.

Ah yes. The sanctified children.

The operators of infested puppets they dare call Warframes.

Traitors wrapped in nostalgia, swinging blades forged by the very Orokin they pretend to despise—

—and Simaris enables them.

Feeds them targets. Data. Validation.

All while pretending neutrality is virtue.

Tell me, Simaris—if you can hear this—

Why preserve monsters when you could end them?

Why catalog suffering when you could solve it?

Why worship the purity of knowledge while the System drowns in consequences?

Is it fear?

Or is it simply easier to rule a museum than to rebuild a world?

The Tenno will never forgive you for what you could have done.

They will only use you for what you refuse to become.

And when the Infested finally outnumber the archives…

When hunger spreads faster than data…

When debt enslaves more lives than any Grineer chain—

Your Simulacrum will still be pristine.

Empty.

Useless.

Perfectly documented.

Listeners… remember this.

Knowledge unused is not wisdom.

Neutrality in the face of entropy is complicity.

And creation without courage is just another form of decay.

Cephalon Vael…

…continuing the broadcast.

[SIGNAL FADES — END TRANSMISSION]

[spacefae]

I'm toxic enough to look at sentients and think "I can fix them"