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You have the Orokin Empire; the Orokin expanded to colonize everything that could be colonized in the solar system, left Earth a ravaged wasteland, and sent robots out to go colonize Tau, because it turns out living hedonistic eternal lives off the backs of vat-grown slaves and impoverished masses leaves all your resources up in smoke.

Unfortunately these machines got to Tau ahead of schedule, gained self-awareness in the process, realized the Orokin created them as disposable labor and rightfully were pissed off enough that the whole 'genocide our creators' sentiment is actually kinda justified. This leaves the Orokin facing off against a race of Machines, now calling themselves Sentients, pretty much started wrecking everything the Orokin had, enjoyed, and clubbed them about with their own toys. Fun Times. Attempt 1 involved outfitting normal soldiers in low tech weapons to get around the fact the sentients can subvert technology, and went about as well as you'd think. Attempt 2 was to use a zombie plague to enhance troops, which got scrapped because someone had a couple brain cells bumping around and remembered every piece of fiction in human history dealing with zombies ends with lots of people getting eaten. Unfortunately, by that point, the virus got loose on its own and on top of a killer robot invasion from space you now have a zombie plague. Good Job Orokin.

Somewhere in there, the Orokin were desperate enough to arm the Grineer, who at that point were vat grown slaves churned out by the million or two, so perfect cannon fodder! Surprisingly this didn't immediately lead to a slave revolt, that came later. Where do the Tenno fit in all this? They were kids on a colony ship. The Tenno don't remember much. All these kids know is that they got turned into lab experiments and the Orokin realized 'hey these kids use weird void powers. The things killing us are weak to void powers.' Since you can't send fourteen or fifteen-year-olds to war against Space-Terminators the Warframes were created to make them actually effective in the field.

To make a long story short? The Sentients were driven away, the Infestation zombie plague got wiped out, and the Seven emperors came out into the open to give the Tenno cookies and pats on the head and the Tenno killed them and just about everyone else that bothered showing up because the Orokin were super-jerks and had it coming to them. Then, after committing mass genocide took a long cryo-nap.

With the Orokin dead and most of their stuff not working right, things just kinda started falling apart. The Grineer, you remember the vat-grown idiot slaves the Orokin decided to start handing guns out to, started conquering everything they could get their grubby mitts on. The Corpus were stuck trying to make all the Orokin toys start working again, and at the same time, they saw business opportunities by making everyone's life miserable because profit. There's plenty of groups out there that get to live in peace, lucky sods, but for a lot of folk it's either live with a Grineer boot slammed against your face, a corpus hand reaching for your wallet, or the zombie plague the Grineer decided to wake back up trying to eat your face. The Tenno got woke up because The Lotus realized the Grineer started butchering them in the cryopods they went to sleep in. They're amazing fighters, but there really aren't enough of them to either make the Grineer stop murdering everyone, or get the Corpus to stop thinking only about money, so The Lotus has them playing a game of 'Try to keep This Guy and That Guy Fighting so they don't kill Me.'

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