
As an Ostron civilian watches in horror, Erra approaches them and removes up their Excalibur Mask, telling them to not be afraid. In Cetus, on Earth, a Murex arrives and crashes into the Unum's Tower.

THE NEW WAR contains sequences of violence, frightening situations involving teens, and depictions of emotional abuse. Loadout access will be limited and regular Warframe activities will not be available until this quest is completed! You will be able to pause the game, and your progress will be saved between missions.

THE NEW WAR requires several hours to complete. The player asks her to choose one voice to lead the others in the near future. The player returns the Lotus to Lua, who reveals conflicting personalities between herself, Natah, and Margulis. With Narmer now destabilized, the Origin System begins to slowly recover. Their victory is cut short by the arrival of The Man in the Wall, appearing as a giant humanoid embedded into a wall, who speaks a cryptic sequence of requiems before mysteriously vanishing. After a long battle, the Lotus and the player finally kill Ballas. This forces Erra to defect and lend his aid to the player for the survival of his race. Ballas, enraged at Lotus and the return of the Tenno, sets in motion his plan to use the Sentient mothership Praghasa to devour the Origin System's sun to escape to the Tau System alone, thereby ending all life, organic or otherwise, in the entire system. This act also allows the Operator to return to the Origin System in the Drifter's place, causing the Lotus to cease hostilities and leave with the intent to fight Ballas.Ī confused Operator travels to the Zariman Ten Zero which has come halfway out of the Void, confronting the Drifter, revealing the Drifter to be an alternate reality version of the Operator. After a segment about the Operator during the accident on the Zariman Ten Zero where they accept The Man in the Wall's deal, the powers are granted to the Drifter. However, she fails to recognize the Drifter and becomes hostile. They team up with Hunhow to claim Sentient shards from Erra's Archons to heal the Lotus. The mysterious Drifter fights back against Narmer, having somehow brought back the Lotus, now a dying Eidolon. Without the Tenno, the Origin System crumbles under the Sentients as Ballas becomes its new ruler, brainwashing the masses into subservience under Narmer and using his position to defame the Tenno and manipulate everyone's memories of their actions. However, despite the efforts of Grineer Kahl-175, Corpus Veso, and Teshin, the Origin System falls as Ballas banishes the Lotus and the Operator into a Void portal. The Tenno are forced to form an alliance with the Grineer and Corpus to unite against a common enemy.

The Sentients, led by Ballas and Erra, launch a full-scale invasion on the Origin System.
