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It should be noted that some of Onkko's voicelines has unknown language not subtitled in the game. These have been transcribed based on how they sound and may not be correct in spelling or grammar. These are bolded for your convenience and until more information is given, these transcriptions are guesswork and are unreliable currently.

In Cetus[]

Idle[]

Introduction[]

Greetings[]

If Adherent or higher[]

Farewells[]

Amp Assembly[]

First time, upon receiving the Mote Amp.
Leaving

If the Player has no Amp Components[]

If the Player Waits[]

Creating an Amp[]

Other Services[]

Gilding an Amp/Exchanging Sentient Cores[]

Confirming the Gilding[]

If the Amp is not Rank 30[]

Donating an Amp[]

Confirming Donation[]

If the Amp is not Rank 30[]

Naming an Amp[]

Confirming the Name[]

Skipping the Naming of an Amp[]

Browsing Wares[]

Purchasing an Item[]

Leaving the Shop[]

After Purchasing an Item[]

When asked about Saya[]

  • "Saya... If he- if Onkko- if I could have shown her how catalogues of possible futures fanned out from the moment I could choose, could have chosen, to stay, none of them end, ended, well. None, save one: this one. The one where I left. (sigh) This future ends so well for her, for Konzu, for Cetus. As eviscerating a choice as it was, it was the only one I could live with. Some day, I swear, this is- but- this was... this will be borne out. Speak of this no more. To be crushed by the singular excruciates. (sigh) What's done is done. Enough."  (download, history)

During a Eidolon Battle[]

When an Eidolon Spawns[]

Discovering an Eidolon Lure[]

Disabling a Lure[]

Attacking an Eidolon Normally[]

Once a single destroyed Synovia has a charged Lure attached[]

Once all destroyed Synovias have a charged Lure attached[]

When Dawn Approaches[]

Destroying a Synovia without a charged Lure[]

After destroying all Synovias[]

Destroying a Synovia[]

Glass Shard Messages[]

  • "In the dying days of the Orokin, with forums and promenades still blood-wet from Tenno betrayal, a colossal Sentient descended upon ancient Er, falling from distant stars to deliver upon Orokin a terrible and final ruin. Tower upon Tower fell to its weapons, but one withstood. The Tower of the Unum. The Tenno scattered, but one remained. Gara. She and the Unum - inseparable. The Unum: lodestone of our people, and subject of a hundred stories herself. The Sentient was a deformed creature, twisted and massive, sent from some dark fold of distant space, a warped thing wounded by daylight. By night it was a terror, felling Tower after Tower. Citadel after Citadel. By day it hid, blinded and pained. It was during the day that Gara roamed, yearning to strike it from Creation while it cowered, weakened and blind, to safeguard her beloved Unum. But never could Gara find it."  (download, history)
  • "By night the Sentient was abroad, its titanic mass casting a terrible shadow across the land, the mass of it railing against the walls of the Tower, yet kept at bay by the exertion of the Unum's colossal will and the sacrifice of her faithful. But such exertions could not be maintained forever. Gara yearned to strike out, to lash and tear at the monstrosity that threatened her love, but the Unum forbade it. At night the Sentient was at the height of its power, and Gara's light would make her the most tempting of targets to a creature of such profound darkness. Gara's death would be certain. No. A different strategy was required."  (download, history)
  • "The Sentient prowled and pressed and failed, never risking too much - for the Sentient could not reproduce. What it lost it lost forever. It had killed many cities before, felled many Towers, but this little one prevailed. Why, it pondered in many voices, was that? The Unum knew she could not defend forever, nor could her faithful throw their bodies against the Sentient in perpetuity. So she gave her followers some of her blood - her refined Temple kuva - and they in turn gave it to the animals of the land, and the animals became an extension of her and she became an extension of them. And the animals roamed, and searched. And they found where the Sentient chose to hide itself."  (download, history)
  • "The Sentient sensed this subterfuge, and capturing one of the Unum's animals opened it up for examination. And what little of the Unum was present there... lit the Sentient's mind like the dark star from which it had fallen. The Sentient, you see, could not procreate. But in the Temple kuva it tasted healing. Completeness. A future. It devoured each and every last Unum-animal, but it was not enough. The Sentient turned its hundreds of eyes toward the Tower with new understanding: it would not destroy the Tower. It would become the Tower. It would kill the Unum, take her place and, one with that healing palace, give birth to a race of itself. Gara and Unum knew where the Sentient was. The Sentient knew the tower was the future of its race. The Sentient threw itself at the tower, no longer cautious, taking great losses and knowing the prize was worthy of it. Should it succeed all losses would be replaced a thousand-fold. This is when, across the Plains, the great pylons ignited for the first time. Sheets of energy sprung up between them, powered by the will of the Unum at their epicenter, trapping the monstrosity within. Loyal Gara, unwilling to heed inaction any longer, broke from the side of the Unum and flew out at night, her eyes on the Sentient mind."  (download, history)
  • "The Sentient, torn between its coveted prize and a mortal threat, broke from the Tower and turned back on itself from noble Gara. But Gara's eyes were not for the Sentient - but for the glittering, man-sized device resting just beyond the gates. It had not been there before, but it was there now. It swatted Gara from the sky, drew it to herself, meaning to end her life there and then. The battle was terrible. Gara sustained injuries she would not survive. But! In her final moments brave Gara seized upon the device her beloved Unum had crafted, seized it to her breast, and allowed the Sentient to draw her in one final time. Toward its core. Toward the seat of its intelligence. From within the Sentient unfurled myriad feelers, probles, tendrils - viciously-toothed and made for killing. They swept towards Gara, violently, and the Glass Warrior made no defense. Her defense was her final attack. The device detonated, and the Unum cried out as night lit as day. The battle - the terror - was ended. The Tower walls shook. The Sentient's body shuddered, wracked by a cacophonous energy. Forests fell as piece after piece, giant body after giant body crashed to the Plains and marshes and flatlands. Animals fled in spreading waves from pounding sky-high walls of dust, angered and whipped to fury by the death of a god. The last of Gara's energy arced from body-to-body, machine-to-machine, piece-to-piece, a horizon-wide applause of light beautiful and terrible. And then... silence. All was still. The Unum's adherents wandered throughout the haze, calling for one another, lost in a miasma. Husbands seizing onto wives, children onto parents. It was over. Gara was never seen again. The Sentients, then, became as they are now: senseless, wandering, yearning for a unity they sense more than they remember. And the Unum? The Unum survived, alone, for centuries. Until today. When you stand here, reading this. This is Onkko, Cetus Archivist, with my translation of the Gara legend."  (download, history)

Thousand-Year Fish Fragments[]

Inbox Message After Scanning All Fragments[]

THE SEARCH IS OVER

You have searched long and hard to find all my fish. Yet, your success was always known. Will you discover the secrets within them, the layer hidden? To honour your achievement, the Quills bestow this statuette upon you.
—Onkko

(Attachment: Thousand-Year Fish Decoration)

Messages[]

  • "In the age after the fall of the Orokin the grand clade-families of the Ostrons were cast wide across the solar system, roaming and homeless in their great floating markets."  (download, history)
  • "In this time, two young people were in love. The woman, Er Phryah, and the man, Mer-Sah. Er Phryah was from the yingbindunyai clade (meaning 'great bond'): a very old and wealthy compact of bonded families."  (download, history)
  • "Mer-Sah, however had no clade; his family having been shattered by the Grineer many years before. He was cetus, meaning 'landless, cladeless, a body turned to dust turned to motes on a careless wind.' Er-Phryah belonged to families within families. Mer-Sah was alone."  (download, history)
  • "But, to Er-Phyrah, Mer-Sah was a poet who had eyes to see the beauty of things and ears to her the softly whispered language of the universe. 'I know a place,' he said. 'Where I may be homeless no more. I have heard a voice, and it leads me there. Come with me.'"  (download, history)
  • "But Er-Phryah's father was a man made foolish by his wealth, and vociferously disapproved of their love. Mer-Sah was cast adrift from the floating market that was home to his one true love."  (download, history)
  • "Er-Phryah and Mer-Sah ran away together, as lovers do, and were never heard from again. Rent by grief, her family thought her dead. Her father passed away, clutching her cameo, at peace thinking he would see her soon in some moonlit afterlife."  (download, history)
  • "Decades later, ships entering ancient Er's orbit were hailed from the planet's poisoned surface by an old woman's voice, gentle and knowing. Traders would call for her, greet her, offer the latest news on their families and lives - but never did they learn anything of this woman, save that she had a husband and they were, somehow, happy living on the toxic skin of that hostile world. The old woman would always - always - ask those travelers of news of the yingbindunyai clade."  (download, history)
  • "Yingbindunyai junkers came searching for a sign of their missing daughter. The frail voice of their long-lost child reached out to them, and there was much joy. You will find us, her message said, by the light of our love."  (download, history)
  • "Er-Phryah bade them make their home around a magnificent Orokin ruin, promising them that it would be a source of their prosperity for generations to come. The yingbindunyai arrived in their vast floating market. There, by a ragged coastline, winked a point of light. Follow the brightness of the love between Mer-Sah and I, said the message, and be safe from all harm."  (download, history)
  • "The wrathful Grineer took umbrage at this and sought to block their passage but, upon approaching that ancient Orokin tower, found their transmissions silenced, their engines turned cold, and their weapons reduced to lumps of dead iron."  (download, history)
  • "She was a being of the day, her husband a spirit of the night. Er-Phryah was a woman of the land. Mer-Sah a man of the sea. Mer-Sah understood the crushing weight of time in which Er existed. In return Er gifted pieces of its ancient self to Mer-Sah; old things shaped to near shapelessness by a thousand years beneath the waves. Mer-Sah was a man dedicated to finding the sacred in the forgotten, the neglected. And took wisdom from them."  (download, history)
  • "After many decades Mer-Sah had a small collection of such gifts - such that they could be held in two cupped hands - but in them he understood the lifespan of a world. And so he had struck an accord with the creatures of the sea."  (download, history)
  • "For her part, in her times alone, Er-Phryah came to know the birds and animals of the plains and likewise struck an accord with them. Even the tortured Eidolons, creatures of this world and the next, left them in peace and made the lands around the Tower safe for the Ostrons."  (download, history)
  • "At the center of this place was the Tower. And within the Tower was the Unum: the voice, the force, that had called Mer-Sah and Er-Phryah there so many years ago for this exact purpose. But the Unum is a being for another time, and another story."  (download, history)
  • "The Ostrons named their village Karifamil - "the family and prosperity". Er-Phyrah was overjoyed to see her clade again.. but Mer-Sah would not enter Karifamil, for he had no family save Er-Phryah. Er-Phryah was drawn to her clade and Mer-Sah felt no resentment. She would one day return to them. Mer-Sah had known it would be so."  (download, history)
  • "Mer-Sah took the things the sea ha gifted over his long life, and took to his boat, and sailed out across his midnight ocean. He returned those gifts to the deep... and himself to them too. But this was no death into which Mer-Sah stepped, for a world is made of cycles upon cycles. Mer-Sah stepped into his midnight ocean, falling down into it. The deeper he sank, the larger he became. This is how the oceans of Er came to be the home of the thousand-year fish: legendary, vast, reclusive, the rare sight of which changes men. One of the great ancient spirits of Er."  (download, history)
  • "The spirits of the land felt Er-Phryah's sadness, mad with grief for the loss of their friend to the spirits of the sea. The accord broke down, the animals and Eidolons returning once more to wildness. And so the people of the clade yingbundunyai rebuilt the great Orokin wall that had, in centuries gone by, ringed their gleaming Tower... and never again ventured out at night."  (download, history)
  • "The villagers decided as one that their home would no longer be known as Karifamil, 'family and prosperity'. From that day forward it would be know as Cetus: landless, of no one clade, home to any who are blown as dust on the wind. Er-Phryah lived there the rest of her days, and for the remainder of her nights she held vigil atop the walls of Cetus, looking to the sea and, some say, occasionally catching sight of a great fish, like an island in the midnight ocean, looking back at her. With love."  (download, history)
  • "It is said that Mer-Sah continued to watch over the deep, as he had always done, and Er-Phryah the land. Often she would stand by her husband-sea, speaking in a language only those bound at the soul can know."  (download, history)
  • "When the day came and Er-Phryah passed from the world, her family buried her on the land. A great fish watched from the sea, and kept vigil over her, for ten days and nights. When it sank beneath the waves, it was never seen again. Some say Mer-Sah, the thousand-year fish, waits to this day for their story to be retold - relived - that he and Er-Phryah, his great love, may one day be reunited again. This is Onkko, Cetus archivist, with my translation of the Tale of the Woman of the Earth and the husband of the Sea."  (download, history)
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