Being able to check in with some NPCs would give a little bit of a fresher atmosphere in these places. Everyone also seems to be completely oblivious to things going on, especially after the New War. Most people never speak, and those in relays or open world hubs just spew the same things over and over. When it comes to casual conversation, everything in Warframe is kinda dead. I’d very much doubt that the Arbiters of Hexis would let me in, due to what I think of them. Of course, access to these bases would be strictly limited by a player’s standing with each Syndicate. This is pretty strange because, well, the Red Veil don’t have a base either, one of their leaders chills out in Iron Wake. The other syndicates don’t get a base at all. We can kinda view both Simaris’ and Suda’s domains, but those are mostly data-scapes in which only a Cephalon can reside. However, while the Steel Meridian are nice fellows with their own base, we never really get to see the same for anyone else. Iron Wake is a nice little place for the Steel Meridian, which was released when Harrow came out.

Weirdly, there is only one Syndicate base that we know of. It’d also help ease confusion on open worlds too, since hitting Esc and leaving always brings up a popup saying you’ll lose your stuff, which generally isn’t true. I’d love a little beacon that I can deploy when I want to exit an open world, so I can leave via my landing craft. Having to hit ESC and Leave is a bit immersion-breaking. Mostly for petty lore reasons, I’d love to have an exit animation as well. However, aside from relays, none of these places have an animation for leaving. On the flip side, relays have two animations of our ships landing. One thing that kinda bothers me is that you are generally dumped into a room and go from there. Heck, we don’t even need to visit, it’d be nice to fly by a friendly colony sometimes. We only spent brief moments inside the hidden base, before leaving to do crappy Index missions. It’d be nice to give them a hub world or something so we can visit. But we never see anything more about them. We also have the Mycona, a group that harvests Infested parts, and the Grineer defectors living a peaceful life away from Steel Meridian. All these colonies remain unvisited, nothing more than unseen people living in an unseen place. In the tutorial, Vor’s Prize, Lotus clearly states that you risk a Grineer ship crashing into a colony ship, and one of the Grineer ships you visit, you avenge dead colonists. Here are a few ideas I’ve had, to add just a pinch of nice lore into the daily grind.

However, I feel like a lot of world-building lore is pretty well hidden, restricted to quests or events of the past. In particular, the New War did somewhat show how normal people lived, most notably for the Tenno. We recently had a war go in and have just started making things go back to normal.

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