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Good day, Tenno. After extensive research, calculations and triangulation, I believe that I have discovered approximately the current date in which our beloved Origin system exists, by the measurements of an archaic and little-known calendar system. Called the Gregorian Calendar, this system of dating appears to have been widely utilized for at least a thousand years, many of which it enjoyed the status as the dominant method of tracking time on Earth. An example of a date in the Gregorian calendar would be, say, April 17, 2022. This would indicate the 17th day of the 4th month of the 2,022 year of the calendar. Delving into celestial orreries I was able to assemble a comparison protocol between planetary positions, our own timekeeping, and this Gregorian calendar. Once properly calibrated, I merely needed to cycle through the orrery until I could match known orbital positions of the bodies of the Origin system with points in history when all were known. Through this method, I believe that by Gregorian reckoning, the present day is: Examine the resultant calculation here, which compares the actual position of the celestial bodies in the Origin system against the expected location of orbital bodies in the comparative orrery. As you can see, the positions do not line up perfectly, but do follow a distinct curvature of position where all bodies do create a spiral from the outermost, Sedna, to the innermost, Mercury. It is not perfect, this is true! But this date, July 27, 7279 AD most closely matches the assemblage of planets in our skies today in a way that no other does. As an Archimedean, I was of course thorough, scrubbing through the orrery for a further ten-thousand years hence to see if any greater alignment appeared - it did not. [As a technical note, this diagram does normalize otherwise more eccentric orbits and collapse the distances down be more readable and easy to reference. Otherwise, the position of each body remains accurate in relation to Sol.] Silliness aside - I know there's no exact dates for when Warframe takes place, but I figured we have one source - the star map! Which is arranged in an particular manner for the purposes of gameplay, but - what if the planets actually aligned in such a way? I took a few orreries and solar system simulators and, rather tediously, scrubbed through the centuries looking for a moment when all the major planet(oids) aligned in the distinct spiral shape we see in game. Once I found it in a simple (and fast to cycle through!) orrery I plugged the date into other planetary body sims to double check the information, and they all seemed to agree on the positions. Surprisingly, there actually was a time this happened! It's nowhere near perfect, of course, but it is remarkable how the actual locations do still create the progression spiral of the warframe map, only on a more stretched out scale. Mercury was my reference position, of course, but it was really neat to see that Venus was within only about 12 degrees, Earth was pretty close, Jupiter was close and Saturn nearly in the right place. The outer planets is where it really lost the plot, but at the same time - they were still spread out along the spiral path with none skipping a position! Here's a side-by-side: I did check as far into the future as I think 14,000 AD and never saw another arrangement like this again, and of course, this arrangement only lasts for a very short time (weeks) because of the speed of the inner planet orbits that slides them out of alignment quickly. Anyway - not actually a serious answer for 'When does Warframe take place' but still kind of a neat coincidence. I think 7,000 AD is also pretty believable for how strange the Origin system is and how much history there seems to be between present day and whenever the Tenno walked. [link] [comments] |
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