Non Serviam

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

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".

Anyways, I also feel the Drifter just gets left to omit things and we have to guess if it's being retconned or what is going on. Another one I can bitch about is the Cavia with a convo you have with Marie but that's a different discussion.

There is a line of dialogue where the drifter is asked what will happen to them (the Hex) in which case the Drifter basically boils down to saying "I don't know", but you do know. We played that in Whispers. They become the Vessels, Entrati spells it out that it will consume them (the protoframes) eventually, and when he was doing those tests the Vessels began to appear. It's just a matter of when that happens. In Whispers when you connect to that Vessel you connect to Arthur, it's not the same type of transference as with later on, as it's implied Arthur still retains control, but can feel you. Albrecht's notes, the fact the video in Whispers opens with him asking if it's Arthur or the operator. We are aware, we know what happens next for them. The path they have been set on, Drifter is either just ignorant to this, which I find weird b/c you can play Drifter through the whole mission including cutscenes. If they are ignorant to it, then why are we supposed to take their word as law though? It runs more into history being written by the victor but the victor erased everyone's memory, including themselves.

On further with the conversation with Lettie, I'm more mad there isn't an option to tell her that's just how the Helminth works and I feel like a lot of the player base forgets. Your Warframe can get infected, that's the pink zit you get on your neck. If you load into relay or missions with other players who haven't had it yet, they get infected. You have to go to the Helminth to have it stab it into you - "Why do you reject our beauty?" And that's how you become immune. The "vaccine" Entrati gave? Is just that injection, then he manipulated it with the Helminth and gray strain to create the protos, and why they needed another dose. We have seen how quickly and aggressively the Infestation can spread, you can pick up that zit from a single infestation mission. The people living there were on borrowed time, there is no herd immunity with the Infestation it's not a virus it's a hivemind, a living thing. The immunity comes from everyone being injected and becoming a carrier for it.

*laughs* I'm in danger.

(Yes I know these are Marine Corps BDUs shhh)