Wands and Warframes

Research

"I might have an answer to that, especially if tracing the next letter works. The total round trip time from when you let the owl go to when it returned was 2,000 seconds, to the nearest second."

"And in numbers that the rest of us can visualise?"

"Around 15 minutes."

"Wait, really? It was gone nearly a day."

"146,724 seconds, to the nearest second."

"Mum, now you're just being difficult."

Natah just smiles at Harry.

"Fine, so that's 2... thousand, not quite 21, so that's 20 remainder that. Wait, 20 hours and 31 minutes give or take?"

"Well done Harry, and you didn't use your implants either. I'm impressed."

"Wait, the implants do more than just allow communications?"

"Yes, how do you think Ballas kept doing all the stuff he did, or how he was able to steal my power?"

"Why didn't anyone tell me that."

"Because you were a child, and then because you were a weapon to be used. All Tenno are also Orokin, and have the same implants and nanites as they did."

"That's why you were supposed to destroy us isn't it."

Natah nods.

"So how do I use the implants for more than just communications?"

"You already do. Remember what your orbiter looked like before it was powered on properly?" Harry nods, "That's what it looks like for anyone without implants or sentient systems. What you're seeing is your implants interacting with the systems built into those locations. Once you've learnt to access your implants consciously, you'd have been taught how to use them to direct the energy produced by Orokin reactors. Then how to interface with and direct the computers. I've been reading more of the notes from the secured section, and the discussions they were having on whether to teach the Tenno how to actually use their implants. They wouldn't have started until your brain reached full maturity, so it was never on the cards for you. But most of the other Tenno passed that threshold within 5 years, with the youngest of them taking 8 years. You were the only child under the age of 10 to survive, and they weren't sure how you managed to avoid the predations of the adults long enough to be found by the children."

"Are you ok Mum?"

"It is disturbing to read these reports, we thought that the Orokin were all the enemy, and they were. It's just that not everyone we thought was Orokin were Orokin. Most were slaves in all but name, chained by implanted commands or implants like Tenshin was. Or just denied an Oro, or even the implants needed to use their technology. They used their own population in experiments as though they were less than them. Oh, Umbra was a special case, as he was a Dax, one level down from Orokin like Margulis and Ballas. I'm coming to believe that Margulis was an aberration amongst the Orokin, because she seems to have actually cared about you. But even there, she looked at you especially Harry. I've found discussions about how you've got the best genetic reconstructions she's ever seen, and how using your information they've been able to improve the viability of the Grineer clones by 10 years. This is massive, as it suggests that originally Grineer were only expected to live at most 5-10 years. They expected that implementing these improvements would pay for itself within 5 generations in terms of resources saved."

Harry looks sick, he has some friends in the Steel Meridian, and the idea that he was partially responsible for their condition, no matter how indirectly, sickened him. Granted he had more friends in New Loka and the Perrin Initiative, it made balancing his long-standing friendship with Cephalon Suda and his standing with New Loka look easy in comparison. Not that he can blame them for it, the Grineer as a whole don't really understand the whole family thing. Something to do with being created in a tube and then programmed with all the skills you need to know. It leads to some odd disconnects, even amongst those free of the hard wired loyalty to their queens.