Lua

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Gold rings circle and encapsulate the desolate moonscape – lavish architecture signifying the Orokin mastery over all things natural and technological during their reign. The opalescent halls stitching together what the enemy destroyed have been vacated since that era came to an end.

—Lua Fragment

Lua is the Earth's moon, accessible as a location in the Star Chart. Once the seat of the Orokin Empire's power during their reign, it is now shattered and broken, scarred by the Old War. Formerly hidden away by the Lotus to protect the Tenno's secret, recent events have led to the reemergence of this lost celestial body, and now its fragmented remains are fought over by the Grineer and the Corpus, with Sentient fighters lurking about.

Lua can only be unlocked after a player completes The Second Dream. Both Grineer and Corpus contest possession of the moon since its reappearance, leading to Lua being the only other location, besides Mars and Mercury, that has (permanent) Crossfire missions. Sentients also appear in any of the missions, scanning for the player's presence and deploying fighters once detected.

The Orokin Moon Tileset serves as the primary environment for Lua.

Lore & History[]

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General[]

The Old War[]

Creation of Transference[]

The Collapse[]

The Sacrifice[]

Enemies[]

Corpus	Grineer	Sentient
Corpus Techs Crewmen Elite Crewmen Prod Crewmen Sniper Crewmen Anti MOAs MOAs Shockwave MOAs Mine Ospreys Oxium Ospreys Scavenger Drones Shield Ospreys	Butchers Ballistas Eviscerators Lancers Shield Lancers Troopers Commanders Heavy Gunners Rollers	Conculysts Battalysts Oculyst

Unique Enemies[]

Sentient units can be found and fought on this moon. Combat against them revolves around their ability to adapt themselves to the damage dealt by the player's weapons and abilities, requiring Tenno to have multiple types of damage (both physical and elemental) in their loadouts, or use Void damage to strip Sentients of their damage resistances.
Corrupted Wardens can be found in "Lua Rescue" missions.
Orokin Spectators can be found in "Lua Spy" missions.
Unique Thrax enemy variants spawn in "Conjunction Survival" missions every rotation, with Hollow variants spawning in Yuvarium and Lua variants in Circulus.

Missions[]

Name	Type	Level	Credit Reward	Tile Set	Internal Name	Hidden Node
Yuvarium	Survival	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode309`	❌
Zeipel	Rescue	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode307`	❌
Tycho	Survival	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode302`	❌
Plato	Exterminate	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode300`	❌
Copernicus	Capture	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode304`	❌
Stöfler	Defense	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode305`	❌
Pavlov	Spy	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode306`	❌
Grimaldi	Mobile Defense	25 - 30	3,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode301`	❌
Apollo	Disruption	35 - 40	4,400	Orokin Moon	`SolNode308`	❌
Circulus	Survival	80 - 100	8,900	Orokin Moon	`SolNode310`	❌

Notes[]

Trivia[]

Lua is Portuguese and Galician for "Moon" and resembles the Latin name Luna. The name Luna is also used in verbal English to distinguish between Earth's Moon and moons as a kind of celestial body. e. g. "Luna is Earth's only moon" as opposed to "The Moon is Earth's only moon".
Missions on Lua are named after various craters on the Moon: Apollo, Copernicus, Grimaldi, Pavlov, Plato, Stöfler, Tycho, Von Zeipel.
- The craters are in turn named after historically significant physicists, astronomers, philosophers, and other important figures in the scientific field.
- The crater & node Apollo is also named after the Apollo Program.
The positioning of the missions on Lua form a crescent shape.
Before Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08), Lua was the name of a node on Earth, and the Orokin Moon missions introduced in Update 18.0 (2015-12-03) were considered Earth nodes. Specters of the Rail update subsequently moved the Orokin Moon missions to its own location, with the Lua node being renamed Cervantes as its previous name was then used for the new star chart location.
The name Lua for the Earth's Moon was foreshadowed by dialogue in The Second Dream, named as the place where the "rejects were consigned", likely referring to the Tenno.
While Lua's post-Orokin dimensions are unclear, the Moon is larger than Phobos, Ceres, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and Eris.
Circulus, Lua has the highest level of all non-Steel Path non-Sortie/Archon Hunt Star Chart missions, ranging from level 80-100.

Patch History[]

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

Fixed navigation pathing issues for enemies in Lua Defense missions.
Fixed map holes on Lua.

Hotfix 35.5.3 (2024-04-04)

Fixed Halls of Ascension not rewarding Drift Mods.

Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)

OMNIA VOID FISSURES

A new type of Void Fissure is available! Found on Star Chart nodes previously untouched by Void Fissures, the new Omnia Fissure allows Tenno to crack Lith, Meso, Neo, or Axi Relics - whatever they choose!

There is one Omnia Fissure available at all times on both standard and Steel Path difficulties. Tenno must have access to the respective node on the Star Chart in order to access the correlating Omnia Fissure, including any Quests necessary for the node:

The War Within Quest for Lua Conjunction Survival Missions

Omnia Fissures can be found on:

Lua: Yuvarium (Conjunction Survival)
Lua: Circulus (Conjunction Survival)

GENERAL FIXES

Fixed cases of being stuck in an infinite fall loop in the Lua tileset.

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

Fixed an invisible wall preventing players from entering a door in Lua Spy missions.

Update 33.5 (2023-06-21)

Fixed some planters on Lua appearing to be unlit.

Hotfix 32.2.10 (2023-01-18)

Fixed the VFX for the Lua Spy Rifts and puzzle pressure plates being invisible if the “Visual Effects Intensity” slider in the Accessibilities options is turned all the way down.

Hotfix 32.2.9 (2023-01-11)

Fixed collision remaining after destroying a wall in the Lua, Pavlov Spy mission making it impossible to enter and complete the vault.

Update 32.2 (2022-11-30)

NEW LUA NODES: CONJUNCTION SURVIVAL

Lua rumbles. The Void exposes old scars and revives forgotten secrets. Smelling possible treasure, the Grineer have descended upon these newly exposed halls, only to be instantly Corrupted by its long-dormant Orokin Neural Sentry.

Fixes:

Made several Navigation and Pathfinding fixes and improvements to many levels:
- Fixed Map Navigation issue that occurs on Lua.

Update 30.9 (2021-11-11)

Fixed Lua being visible from the Orbiter while orbiting Earth before having completed the Second Dream Quest.

Hotfix 29.6.9 (2021-01-28)

Fixed no Sentients spawning in Lua Survival missions.

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

Fixed clipping in a certain tile on Lua.
Fixes and improvements to AI navigation and objective marker pathing in the Lua tileset.

Hotfix 27.4.2 (2020-05-04)

Fixed a script error that could occur for Clients if someone died during the energy-draining phase of the Power Drift puzzle.
Fixed a couple script errors that could occur while fighting the Cunning Drift Security Eye.

Hotfix 27.3.16 (2020-04-22)

Fixed a script error when encountering the Halls of Ascension Endurance Test.

Hotfix 27.3.15 (2020-04-17)

Fixed a script error that could occur for Clients joining a mission in progress in the Power Drift Hall of Ascension room.

Hotfix 27.3.14 (2020-04-15)

Fixed script error that could occur in the Power Drift Hall of Ascension room.

Update 27.3 (2020-03-24)

Made spawn changes to improve flow of enemies in the Lua Survival tileset.
Fixed a missing window portal in the Lua Exterminate tileset.

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Fixed texture issues with floor and rail assets in the Lua Halls of Ascension rooms.
Fixed a large map hole in the Lua tileset.
Fixed issues with fog textures for the Lua tileset.
Fixed a rogue teleport volume in Stöfler, Lua that could be triggered unintentionally.

Hotfix 27.1.2 (2020-02-18)

Fixed a script error in the Lua Spy mission when going through Void tears.

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)

Added Apollo, a new Disruption node.

Hotfix 25.5.1 (2019-08-02)

Fixed another unreachable loot spot in the Lua tileset.

Hotfix 25.4.3 (2019-07-26)

Fixed clipping doors in the Lua Sabotage tileset.

Hotfix 25.4.1 (2019-07-24)

Fixed a Crate clipping into the wall on the Lua Spy tileset.

Hotfix 25.3.2 (2019-07-12)

Increased brightness of the grey ABC markers in Lua Spy missions.
Fixed Sentient Troopers not spawning in Lua Exterminate missions.
Fixed missing portal FX for Clients in the Lua Rescue tileset.

Update 24.7 (2019-04-10)

Widened the wall gap for the purpose of Warframe size sliding in the Lua tileset as requested here.

Update 20.4 (2017-05-04)

Removed Lua Spy missions from Sortie rotation due to extensive Client loading times on min spec machines. Please note that we are working to fix this and add Lua Spy missions back into the Sortie rotation.

Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)

Introduced.

Star Chart
Mercury • Venus (Proxima) • Earth (Proxima) • Lua • Mars • Deimos • Phobos • Ceres • Jupiter • Europa • Saturn (Proxima) • Uranus • Neptune (Proxima) • Pluto (Proxima) • Sedna • Kuva Fortress • Eris • Void (Veil Proxima) • Zariman