u/Glass_Eye8840

The Republic has always looked down upon the Thousand Folk. In their eyes they are backwards, barbaric savages who are an example of a failure of the Novis-human project. They are known as the Thousand Folk because they are compromised of hundreds worlds connected by complicated lattices of alliances, and inhabited by often times radically different human sub-types. One world is of endless night and inhabited by pale, gangly creatures who preform their vast engineering projects deep underground, others are near human but with vaguely feline features, whose souls belong to the desert they were born from. Others are creatures of deep black obsidian, tall, with lean muscles, claws, strange purple hued eyes and spines in place of hair across their body. Others are...basically ordinary humans, but many the Republic dub them the 'wrong' kind of human, so they're thrown into the Thousand Folk collective as well.

When the Republic declared their holy crusade to genocide the ali-I mean, when the noble and good republic launched a preemptive invasion to curb the alien threat, The Thousand Folk worlds were of course dragged into the cross fire. In spite of the radically different cultures of the worlds and beings inhabiting the worlds they are united by a complicated history of empires, alliances, oaths, and defense agreements. So when the republic's beginning invasion into the alien's space utterly failed and they aliens launched a counter-invasion, a world of the Thousand Folk was targeted, and a domino effect was quickly set in motion.

Another thing that often unite the Thousand Folk is honor. Of course, with so many radically different human subtypes and cultures, honor takes a different shape, but there are unifying beliefs, such as 'don't fucking exterminate the population of a world you've subjugated'

To the Thousand folk's surprise, the aliens held to that standard. The worlds they took were occupied and effectively held captive, yes, but the aliens operated as a mostly honorable occupying force. The Thousand Folk knew they could exterminate the worlds' populations within months if not weeks, because the aliens had quickly demonstrated themselves as masters of Bio-tech--they absolutely had bio-weapons capable of mass exterminations.

The exact story of how the Thousand Folk negotiated a ceasefire with these nightmarish, biomechanical, seemingly hive-mind lead aliens, who were rightfully pissed off is a long story I can't detail here (spoiler:>!this is beginning barebones lore meant to lead to the present day of the setting. So yes, i skimped on a lot of details and was very vague but only becauseim actively working on this lore) !<

"Ughhh warframe is a solo game why do I have to play with six other people?"

"New warframe looks trash I'll helminth roar over her four"

"Wtf they didn't give banshee a nuke the planet ability?"

Can't wait to painstakingly remove every decoration from my orbiter boys.