Revenge
Finally the thrusters began to weaken, the acceleration slowed and the ship stayed in a slow orbit around Terra with occasional maneuvering to dodge long dead junk that was stuck in the High Earth Orbit, some of them looked ancient, pre-Orokin even. "Operator, you have returned. Do you remember your Ordis, the ships Cephalon? Sadly, I have been stripped of all core components. Order me to self-destruct, I will understand." The Volt was startled by the sudden outburst from loudspeakers hidden in the ship.
The grineer are ravenous for Orokin technology. They likely stripped your ship to its most basic capabilities. Check the orbiter compartment for any spare system parts. The Voltwalked to the back and found a trap door in the floor, opened it and found a black chip, full of tiny wiring that hopefully would restore something to Ordis. On the top in old letters it said 'Terra Mapping'. That is probably a very outdated map of Terra; it shows the most prominent colonies at the time right until you went into cryosleep. Many colonies no longer exist with the Orokin gone, but the grineer repurposed many of them too. Place it into the Navigation System and it will help direct you.
The Volt went to the Navigation System and found button behind the panel, pressing it opened up a large circular port system with dozens of areas for chips similar to the one the Volt found to be placed. "Oh, the desecration, those savages took everything! Of all the heinous, bast- more ship components are missing than originally thought, Operator." If Cephalons had blood pressure, Ordis' would be through the roof. Something would really have to be done about its language though.
You should go to the Mantle, security is weak there and other Tenno have claimed that many low grade Orokin technologies are stored there. The Volt set navigation for the Mantle and immediately the thrusters kicked on. "Navigation to the Mantle started. Let's go kick some grineer a- retrieve ship components."
After circling the planet a few times, the Liset finally began to descend. The colony was once a large mining colony as shown by the giant ravines throughout the area which were once heavily mined for Terra's unusual abundance of strange minerals. The Liset floated over a less overgrown factory on the outskirt of the still operational part of the colony and the Volt walked over the door in the floor of the ship. It was on the backside of the ship down below the arsenal. The Volt strapped its weapons on, laid down into the mold facing the ceiling, and felt the magnets power on. The door then flipped to show the roof of the factory and the magnets let go.
The Volt landed in a roll and began to move immediately. The storage area is reported to be in the center of the colony. The colony has been mapped out recently by a recon Liset. I have mapped out a route to get to the parts you'll need. Go. A recon Liset? Interesting. The Volt put a minimal amount of power into propelling itself forward. To go too fast and trip alarms would not make the mission easy.
A very loud voice came to the Volt. Not through any headset or speakers, but into the mind of the Volt itself. The Ascaris is working. I can see into the shadows of your mind. For the first time since the initial escape of Terra, the Volt remembered the thing attached to its calf. It looked down to see it had already grown in the space of the few hours since it had been placed. Immediately an arc of pain was felt through the Volt. It dulled to become a throbbing bite into the calf of the Warframe, the pain was just enough to be noticed.
The Volt pushed the pain out of its mind and continued forward, checking the navigation chart on its arm every once in awhile. The Volt felt free for the time. There weren't any grineer patrols for the next few miles and the terrain was perfect to exercise the power the suit gave it. The power that propelled the Volt forward also could be directed below the Volt, to give extra power to jumps. A simple leap could take the Volt several hundred feet forward and a few dozen feet into the air. With the speed the Volt was going at, and a little manipulation to keep the Volt pushed towards the walls, wall runs became normal habits to the Volt whenever it entered a hallway. The infected trees were everywhere on this part of Terra too, the farther the Volt went into the colony, however, the more sparse they became. The sparser they became, the more slowly the Volt went, until it chanced upon the first patrol.
A single grineer walking within earshot of a floating radio that relayed any news to the lone patrol, the Volt put an arrow into the throat of the grineer and began again, without any energy to propel itself along now. The Volt moved into a large factory and found a dozen grineer sitting and talking in their guttural way. A simple energy propelled jump would get the Volt onto a higher walkway and quietly across the building, but it craved blood.
The Volt walked into the large factory floor room and loudly unsheathed the Skana. The grineer looked taken aback but recovered quickly and began to open fire. It put energy into its arms and blocked the bullets with the sword, a few got through but nothing managed to penetrate the shield placed over its armor. It jumped into the air and came down on a grineer, slicing it in two. A second grineer next to it was removed of its head. The Volt sent out a bolt of electricity and shocked three other grineer and followed up by throwing a set of six kunai into the eyes of grineer that were preparing to unload another magazine. The final grineer was at a console trying to set off the alarms but the Volt dropped the Skana and pulled out its bow and an arrow and pinned the grineer to the wall by its head.
A moment passed and the Volt decided the gunfire wasn't heard by anyone else and began to move on. A glint of metal caught the Volts eye. It turned to see a capsule with a set of orders in the grineer language inside, Ordis could probably translate it later. The Volt hooked the capsule to the hook on the left legs thigh hook, mentally marking the idea of some way to carry a larger amount of capsules for future missions.
Going on the bloodlust continued and its track record of leaving with no alarms grew, it became eager to hurry up and find the storage compartments. At least two hundred grineer in various amounts of parts later and the Volt made it to a giant clearing. What seemed like it would be a perfect place for a colony market forum back in the day was now simply stacks of storage units and barrels full of scraps that looked nothing like the things the grineer made. Search around try to find a Mod System, Armory System, or any navigation segments that we can use. They should say Mod V.2.31 somewhere on them, that is the model of your Liset. Yours was among the last models made before the end of the Old War.
The Volt got to work, smashing open storage units to find a needle in a field of haystacks. Dozens of Armory Systems for different Liset models. An unnecessary amount of Mod V.1.0 parts made the Volt hate that it was lucky enough to be owner of such a higher tech version. Finally it came across a Communication System for its Liset that was in one piece, a few odd wires hanging out of it counted as one piece. An Armory System was found in a few pieces in a metal capsule, maybe if the Volt could reverse engineer it…?
A quiet alarm was just set off, I have intercepted a distress call to nearby colonies and already I have found three incoming ships full of grineer marines. You need to get to extraction. Almost grateful for whoever set off the alarm and ended the horrible search for parts, the Volt sprinted to the marked clearing on its navigation chart, a capsule in each hand, holding the two parts it found, and a capsule bouncing on its leg. The pop of gunfire followed it across the colony, sometimes the louder snap of a sniper followed by the muffled thump as it hit the ground behind the Volt.
It didn't take but a minute to find the marked clearing. The Liset was already waiting for the Volt, and the magnets brought the Volt into the door and the Liset. "The Operator has found a segment," more static, "Install it now- Ordis patiently awaits segment installation." Another sign of wear on the Ordis' system, probably should really get that checked.
Get communication online, I must see what this Ascaris is doing to your Warframe. The Volt hurried to install the segment before someone else told it to install the blasted thing. After fiddling with it for a few minutes, the segment seemed to click and a hologram full of messages popped up. Hundreds, thousands of Tenno were communicating to each other. The Volt almost got sentimental until the loudspeakers crackled on, "Systems engaging. I suppose this will do- Ordis is grateful. The Operator can now communicate with other Tenno in the system. The Operator is also able to contact black market scumbags- contact arms dealers."
Ordis has an excellent idea. I know of a Corpus defector sympathetic to our cause. He is locked up in a Grineer Gulag. But first, show Ordis the paper you found. Maybe he can tell us what it says.
"Ordis is not a man or woman! Ordis is a cephalon, beyond your insignificant- yes, I can." The Volt placed the paper in view of a scanner and the ship almost made a shuddering sound as it scanned. "This note is a set of orders, to not kill the Operator but try to capture it. It says to bring it to Captain Vor." The Volt perked up at hearing this. Killing Captain Vor had become its mission.
Tenno, you are not ready to take Vor yet. Do not get ahead of yourself. Free our corpus friend first, we do not know how long he has yet to live.
The Volt was disappointed by this news. But still bursting at the seams with happiness.
The Tenno were not dead. The Tenno would have revenge.
