ORCUS RELAY, PLUTO—Overhearing a group of newer Tenno eagerly discussing how much Endo they had saved up in order to rank up their recently obtained Primed Mods, a veteran Tenno began rambling on and on about Fusion Cores and how newer players don’t even appreciate how good they have it now.



“Fusion Cores were much better.” said a jaded ArgentE, MR23, after spending the better half of five minutes listening to the eager young Tenno around him excitedly discussing how they were about to trade in their collections of Ayatan Sculptures in order to finally max out Primed Pressure Point. “Back in my day, it took hours just to select the Fusion Cores to rank up a mod. It took months to get enough Fusion Cores to max out a Serration and that’s a common mod damn it!”

ArgentE was not deterred by the lack of response from the young group of Tenno as he continued to ramble on about how things were both simultaneously worse yet better when he had first started playing the game. “Xini, now there was a real loot cave.” said ArgentE to The Forma’s Senior Veteran Correspondent who quickly regretted their decision to interview the loquacious old man. “Me and the boys used to spend hours there just hoping to get Banshee. When we finally did, oh boy! You should have seen the way squad chat lit up! I bet you just copied your blueprints straight out of some stepping stone Dojo, huh kid?”

“I don’t even know what any of this PBR crap you kids keep talking about is. And now we’ve got Lokis that don’t look like Lokis and little Nezhas running around everywhere… It just ain’t right, I tell ya.” ArgentE rambled on to the relieved correspondent who was grateful the salty veteran did not continue that train of thought. Still committed to scraping together at least 500 words to ensure they got paid this week, the correspondent asked why the veteran did not like the Endo system hoping to get another long-winded response. “I liked the old system better.” answered ArgentE.

Realizing he was was losing the attention of the first person to take interest in his incomprehensible disdain, the veteran forced in yet another tangent: “And now the new Tenno don’t even have to pay Credits to get their Endo from the Sculptures! Can you believe that?” asked an incredulous ArgentE to the back of the correspondent. “Who do they think is going to pay that tax now? It sure as hell ain’t gonna be me! These kids think Credits grow on trees or something.” Seeing that the correspondent was not interested still, the veteran kicked things up a notch saying “The Hema is nothing compared to what we veterans had to go through.”

At press time, sources report that the entire relay had joined forces in showing their outrage against the old Tenno’s claims and that the Senior Veteran Correspondent managed to meet this week’s word count quota and wants his paycheck.