Warframe is no stranger to space oddities and sci-fi weirdness, and just when you thought they couldn’t keep going further down the rabbit hole, out came the Jade Shadows quest and update. Before we continue and go in-depth, please be aware: This story will openly discuss the Jade story and the serious lore implications and revelations it entails. You’ve been spoiler warned.
But first, let’s address the elephant in the room: can the Warframes get pregnant through the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees? After all, they’re supposed to be biomechanical weapons infected with a virus and turned into walking superweapons. They likely still have the parts, right? Sadly, the short answer is: probably not.
Jade, despite being pregnant or with a distinctly permanent baby bump, didn’t get pregnant when she was a Warframe. Instead, she was pregnant as a human before the Orokin turned her into a Warframe (unborn baby included). The ‘Jade Shadows’ quest even heavily implied that Jade’s baby daddy was none other than the Stalker. He was in a relationship with Jade before the Orokin also turned him into a Warframe.
Jade’s Conception Confused the Community
And with that, we have a technically pregnant Warframe. Jade also gave birth late in her Warframe form, and you even get to name the Warframe before the Stalker whisks his kid away to brood on his solo parenting act. So there’s also now a baby Warframe out there.
Still, while the Jade Shadows quest did a good job at the exposition, it left a lot of questions for the Warframe community to ponder (it’s a long list of questions at this point). Comment sections on highly upvoted (and spoiler-filled) Reddit threads pretty much sum up the community’s confusion.
But important talking points would be:
- Can Warframes reproduce through technicality now?
- What happened to the baby Warframe?
- Why does Jade still have the baby bump after she gave birth?
- Will the Jade replicas we crafted eventually give birth too?
- Does Jade have two Aura mod slots because of the baby?
- Why can’t we name the baby as ‘Boy’?
And so on. In any case, Jade Shadows introduced some heavy lore implications in the already mind-bending Warframe universe. In hindsight, a pregnant Warframe ought to be the least of our worries in a universe filled with a villainous and sentient wall, cannibal clone armies, child soldiers armed with superweapons, and an alien pretending to be our mother.
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