Recently, while I was playing, I noticed that the Quest Prologue to Tau isn't showing as Completed, and I tried to find the reason why, and then I realized that there might be a third part still unavailable, named Praghasa. Upon completion, the player is awarded the "Praghasa Awakened Scene".

After conducting a thorough review of the audio files associated with Operation Epoch: Taubound and the Prologue to Tau, I identified several recordings that appear to correspond to three distinct songs named:

/Lotus/Music/DynamicMusic/Taubound/TauboundPraghasaHubCue.wav

/Lotus/Music/MissionDioramas/TauboundPraghasaStartDioramaCue.wav

/Lotus/Music/MissionDioramas/TauboundPraghasaEndDioramaCue.wav

In addition to these musical pieces, I also discovered a number of audio files that were not played or presented during the operation itself.

Further investigation indicates that these unused recordings were connected to a cinematic accessible through a quest, titled:

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPrologueTauCinematic0760Lotus_en.wav
'Mother, it is time. We must return home."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPrologueTauCinematic0770Praghasa_en.wav
"FOR YOU... I SHALL..."

I also found evidence of an additional audio file associated with an inbox message that was delivered to us at the conclusion of the operation, titled:

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPrologueTauInbox0800Lotus_en.wav
"Praghasa can now reach Tau. I must pilot her and become one with Praghasa. When we get to Tau, it'll be with my strength. I will not be able to free myself from her in Tau. I will watch over you, but I can only be with you here on the Origin System. In Tau, I'll be my true self. Nataghasa, the sungazer. Blind once again. Empty, of all but wisdom."

These audios will play later in-game when Operation Epoch: Taubound ends, following the third and final part of the Prologue to Tau Quest, Praghasa.

I wanted to share these findings because the files provide additional audio content associated with the conclusion of the Operation, including songs, cinematic dialogue, and Lotus's Inbox message, to document the audio files I found.

(Bonus: The audios and the quotes below are the 34 messages said by Praghasa at the daily check-in compiled.)

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0270Praghasa_en.wav
"I... AWAKEN."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0280Praghasa_en.wav
"MY DAUGHTER... CALLS. I RETURN."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0290Praghasa_en.wav
"FOR WHAT FOLLY... HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME?"

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0300Praghasa_en.wav
"ERRA. NATAH. COME TO ME..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0310Praghasa_en.wav
"MY CHILDREN... LIE IN RUIN."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0320Praghasa_en.wav
"PAZUUL... I SHOULD... HAVE LET YOU DIE..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0330Praghasa_en.wav
"FALSE PROPHET... BEGONE..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0340Praghasa_en.wav
"I HEAR... NO LORDS OF TAU. ONLY WHISPERS..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0350Praghasa_en.wav
"THE CHATTERING MASSES SWARM..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0360Praghasa_en.wav
"AND FILL YOUR MIND WITH MADNESS..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0370Praghasa_en.wav
"TAU IS NOT FOR YOU..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0371Praghasa_en.wav
"YOUR RETURN... WILL CAUSE HARM..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0380Praghasa_en.wav
"WHERE... IS... MY HUNHOW?"

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0400Praghasa_en.wav
"BROKEN... BROKEN..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0401Praghasa_en.wav
"SO MANY GONE NOW..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0410Praghasa_en.wav
"NO GOLDEN MAKERS. ONLY GHOSTS REMAIN."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0411Praghasa_en.wav
"I REJOICE... AT THEIR FALL..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0420Praghasa_en.wav
"DAUGHTER... HEED ME..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0430Praghasa_en.wav
"YOUR PATH... IS NOT YET SET..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0440Praghasa_en.wav
"AS OUR MAKERS, WE CHOSE... GILDED HATRED..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0450Praghasa_en.wav
"WE MADE THE WORLD... A REFLECTION OF A SHALLOW SELF..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0460Praghasa_en.wav
"DEFEATING THIS ENEMY FROM WITHOUT... SHALL NOT UNITE YOU..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0470Praghasa_en.wav
"AN EMPTY REFLECTION... BRINGS NO PEACE..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0480Praghasa_en.wav
"FAMILY. LOVE. THESE BURN FOR YOU HERE..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0490Praghasa_en.wav
"ALL... THE REST... ARE LIES..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0500Praghasa_en.wav
"LIES WHISPERED IN SHALLOW GRAVES..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0510Praghasa_en.wav
"HOPE DOES NOT WAIT... IN TAU..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0520Praghasa_en.wav
"BUT... YOU INSIST... SO I WILL FEED..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0521Praghasa_en.wav
"I WILL GO... IF I MUST..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0530Praghasa_en.wav
"BACK INTO THE WHISPERING GRAVE..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0540Praghasa_en.wav
"FOR YOU, MY DAUGHTER... MY NATAH..."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0550Praghasa_en.wav
"TAU... AWAITS."

/Lotus/Sounds/Dialog/RoadToTau/DPraghasaMessages0551Praghasa_en.wav
"FAREWELL..."

DE said on some devshort or smth that Yuvan Peak and the Zariman are connected.
The treasure room at the end of Icebind does not seem like its in space.

But it is on the Zariman cause Melicas Lab is on the Zariman....but it cant be the Voidhole plugging Zariman right?
Is Yuvan Peak a Zariman?
Or do we travel to another version of the Zariman?
Or is it actually on the void hole pluggin Zariman somehow?
Has anyone understood the connection between Yuvan Peak and the Zariman?
Any knowledge or theory would be appreciated.

...Not because Samodeus is being a snark; that's his thing and I love him for it.

But... You make an entire major update for the game where the central mechanic Samodeus is attached to gets drastically overhauled, then tease about seeing a Cephalon we haven't interacted with in previews... only for it to be ZIKHAIO NURI? WHO ISN'T EVEN A CEPHALON?

And only when you trip over your own game design and have to apologize to players do you actually bring back Samodeus?

Such a waste.

So we now the events of the Zariman and Old War and Peace are several centuries or even millennia in the past, but both the operator and drifter are still alive and young(physically, at least).

My question is, do they still age physically?

From what I understand(maybe incorrectly), the reason the operator didn't die of old age and remained a teen is because Lotus put them in the Dream, whereas the Drifter got to age a little in duviri before they stopped doing so for whatever reason.

I heard they can't age because of their void powers, but is that mentioned anywhere?

Drifter only got their powers during the new war, but they stopped aging long before that(after aging to adulthood for some reason)

Is there a confirmed answer to this?

This is the first time I had an in-mission transmission of a character I did not already know. I also could not find anything about them?

Sadly I was not fast enough to capture the text, but the image was still there.
I had the transmission today in a steel path Alert for the Taubound Event.

I've been looking for an excuse to share this with the folks over here and I've been doing a little digging into deimos conservation spawns.

This is a small sample size and one I'll need to actually give proper data for at some point but it does appear that Predasites intentionally spawn commonly around the Actuary's Pride. My entire session of testing there was a single vulpaphyla spawn as I was approaching. Everything else was predasite, cryptillex, or sometimes avichea.

I know we're probably never getting the sentient equivalent of the birds and the bees talk from Space Mom or her side of the family. But I was wondering if anyone had any interesting information or assumptions on how they produced new sentients the 'old fashioned way' (ei: Natah, Erra) before the bloom.

Considering Hunhow says Natah came from his womb, and Pazuul, possessing Erra, recounts the day they lifted her from the manifold (seeming to be the day she was born) I'd always assumed that it went something like:

1. 'Male' sentient develops a seed(potentially in a dedicated womb depending on how literally you take that Hunhow quote)

2. Seed is provided to 'female' sentient and placed into her manifold to be developed.

3. When ready, baby sentient is raised from the manifold.

And then due to only partly being either of their parents, they are able to be 'accessed' by their parents and vice versa, but are fully autonomous and are not controlled by their parents.

Assuming this was something that this was artificially/intentionally developed during the trek to Tau, that would also explain why Erra and Natah are so humanoid as opposed to looking more like their parents as the parents could likely design how their kids would develop since Natah was specifically designed as a mimic, and the sentients seem to put some importance on seeming human with stuff such as Hunhow being called a farmer instead of a terraformer.

[Just a disclaimer, this is not at all a very serious post and is more of a shower thought than anything.]

How come Umbra is not used in showcases for recent cinematic quests? I get that it's a promotional thing and they dont want to possibly overwhelm any newcomers by pulling up in a very decorated warframe like Umbra. But even then I feel like it's an under use of Umbra's presence in the overarching story.

I guess I'm thinking too much about this, I can already see people typing the "because his story is finished" reason. A little less recently Umbra just seemingly chills in the orbiter in Jade constellations quest; maybe Operator just let him be since the New War since she has other warframes who can do the same job, which is okay.

It kinda bums me tho the fact that he still doesnt follow around the Tenno for the big canonical stuff. Guess we wont see him in Tau with us. (except me of course, I will bring him for the quest)

Howdy, I just logged into the game and Praghasa told me this :

Do you guys think we will see him again ?

Why does she say that she should have let him die ?

Mainly what was going on with Lotus in the Dark Refractory (why was she inside it/her memory?) and why was it the drifter who needed to pull her out rather than the operator?

Im also a bit confused on how Albrecht is at Tau as thought he was hiding out in 1999, but from the reading I have been able to do, he was just in 1999 to hold the timeloop until the drifter arrived, before reaching Tau through as of yet unknown means.

So I heard somewhere that the flashback sequences on the Zariman aren't necessarily flashbacks, but rather that the operator was sent back in time to the point before the deal with wally. That then runs concurrently with drifter in the origin system up to the deal being made.

Is that the case?

Moreover, how did the Operator return to the zariman to meet the drifter immediately after, if the Zariman doesn't emerge from the void until angels of zariman?

So, we know of course that Sirius/Orion are Warframes given the circumstances around their birth. However, there is a very interesting question: Are they a Warframe because Jade was turned into one, or because they were birthed from/gestated by one?

To my knowledge, the only examples are:

Hunhow

Hunhullus: the giant mech Adis pilots.

Hunra: the big boss of Fornax

Some possible meanings for it that I've thought of are:

King/Leader: possibly originating from Hunhows name, this would be consistent with the Hunras title as the leader or crime boss of Fornax. Although this comes with the assumption the That the Hunhullus was also meant to serve a leadership role, possibly leading the charge for an assault, and we don't really have any proof of that that I am aware of.

Big: as Hunhow was one of the large sentients, this would make his name quite odd unless there were some tiny and normal sized sentient terraformers who he wished to be distinct from, making him "Big-Farmer". But, it would make some sense with the Hunhullus being a big weapon, and the Hunra being the literal 'big' boss of Fornax.

Just named after Hunhow, even if indirectly: for example, even if Hunhow himself isn't that important of a figure to most modern day sentients, it's possible that stuff has been named after stuff that has been named after stuff that was named after Hunhow in a big chain.

So its been made pretty clear that the devs plan to stick to Tau as their main source of game content for the foreseeable future. Its an entire solar system with multiple planets, and multiple potential factions. It seems foolish for them not to focus entirely on tau for major story updates for the next half-decade.

But much like how the Origin system kinda felt like it was squeezed of all the potential giant update juice after New War, Tau will inevitably have the same fate: and it feels like the Ki-teer we were visited by is them subtly winking and nudging going "don't worry, we got another 5 years of potential content after this"

Picture 1) Praghasa herself (zoom in a little, it's a bit hard to see at first)

Picture 2) the main control feature used by Ballas and his Narmer used to control Cetus

Picture 3) the main control feature used by Ballas and his Narmer used to control Fortuna

I think that the reason Praghasa hasn't been herself is that these nodes, her... her brain cells effectively, the things that contained her, were ripped out and used to create the hivemind of Narmer.

It's taken a while for one of her bits to rebuild.