EMP 001 ● JUNE 2025

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Welcome to Somnia's first EMP! This is the place to be if you're interested in the game's setting, if you're unsure about who you'd like to bring or if you just want to check out the vibes. Remember that the EMP is open to all, and you don't need an invite to participate in the slightest!

Dates to note are as follows:

- TDM: June 7th
- RESERVES: June 21st
- APPS: June 22nd - 26th
- GAME START: July 1st

An opportunity for players who do not have invites to post their interest in receiving one will be available on the TDM as a mod comment to reply to. Just like our EMP, you do not need an invite to participate in the TDM, either (only to reserve and app). Mod-run invites will also be available then, so I thank you kindly for your patience!

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Name: Syn
Contact: crimsonxiphos

The Operator | Warframe

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ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: The Operator
Canon: Warframe
Blurp: First of all: Warframe lore is absolutely buckwild and I apologize in advance. TL;DR, ageless eldritch child who already brought about one apocalypse and is somewhat ambivalent about bringing on the next one.

Long story short as I can make it: the Operator is a former human child who made a Faustian deal with an eldritch entity, known variously as "The Man in the Wall," "The Lidless Eye," and "The Indifference," in order to save themself and their classmates from their homicidal parents. The children were transformed into ageless, powerful psychic beings, who were then turned into amnesiac bioweapons by the ruling class of their day, the Orokin. The Orokin forced the children into a state of indefinite sleep and psychically connected them to tortured, heavily-mutated super-soldiers, or "Warframes," in their war against the Sentients, a machine race created by the Orokin that later rebelled. The Operator and the other children quickly lost hold of their memories and identities, becoming one with the Warframes, and known collectively as the Tenno.

The Tenno ended up being a little too effective at the whole "ultra-violent murder" thing and would eventually slaughter the Orokin and leave the solar system in a state of chaos, before being basically forced to take a collective, centuries-long nap, during which various factions and Orokin survivors vied for control in the power vacuum. Things got so out of hand that the Tenno were woken again, and immediately got busy culling the various warring factions at the behest of a mysterious, commanding figure known as the Lotus.

Basically, you know in cosmic horror when the ancient inscriptions tell of a terrible race of slumbering eldritch monstrosities who will one day wake up and bring ruin to the civilizations of mankind? That's the Operator! :) Except, recent events have caused them to regain their memories of their former humanity, as well as some specific memories about that shady deal they made with the Man in the Wall way back when. It scares the shit out of them, because while they can't remember what they promised the Lidless Eye, they know that whatever it was will make what they did to the Orokin look like a handshake in comparison.

Vessel Type & General ideas: I'm definitely leaning more towards Token for the Operator, as gently bonding with monstrous beings in the name of inflicting terrible vengeance upon their tormentors is kind of their M.O in canon. As for what kind of Token, I'm leaning towards either Artificer or Lightweaver.

The Operator has a canonical fondness for broken people and things. They want to take away their suffering, even taking it onto themself in many cases, and help them find peace. I'd love to explore this with Offering CR in the future, especially if it comes with an added exploration of the darker side of this dynamic—in which the object of the Operator's kindness often becomes subject to their overriding control. As the Operator themself says: "My Warframe is the hand—and I am the will."