Corpus and Perrin : Warframe

Ergo's father was a pariah among Corpus and obsessed with holokeys. He collected them religiously, leaving the impression of a deranged conspiracy theorist, which would be a true observations to someone looking from the outside in. Glast Sr would dedicate his life to locating holokeys, even getting his son involved, spending days and even weeks in front of a computer, calculating possible coordinates for holokeys. 

Father and son would bond over this search but also become alienated. Work came first, family was second. Ergo was often warned not to get too attached to anyone and to definitely not trust anyone. Glast Sr was on the board, during times when the Corpus Board of Directors had an odd number of members. He was a thorn in everyone's side - smart businessman, rich, strangely charismatic but still managed to always sway board votes in his way, often disturbing the pre-made deals some of the other members had planned.

He treated the holokey hunt similarly to geocaching - preparing keys of his own and replacing each original Granum holokey with a key of his own, leaving bits and pieces of his "evidence" of the grand conspiracy, knowing that his actions put a target on his back and the Corpus board would sooner or later come for him.

Which, again, did happen so when Glast Sr's assassination was ordered by none other than Frohd Bek himself, Ergo received a message that lead to a cache which had one final holokey crafted by his father, containing a letter detailing the circumstances of his death and a datapad with info on how to gain access to a cache with a huge sum of credits, all for the purpose of escaping the Corpus and continuing the Perrin way. "Perrin" was the ideology Glast Sr told would "put the Corpus back on track". His goal was to uncover the "rot within" and "return to Corposium". To nobody's surprise, after Glast Sr's "tragic" and "untimely" demise, the Board unanimously voted for a reduction of seats - thus making the Board have exactly 14 seats.

Ergo being mentored by Frohd Bek was all part of his father's plan: if Frohd got a hold of Ergo he would do his best to turn Ergo against his father, painting him as a madman and conspiracy theorist and someone who was against the Corpus, treating Perrin as a fringe ideology. Ergo, however, was strongly influenced by his father and always kept his catchphrase - "Remember the Tenets!" - in the back of his mind. Growing up with the Corpus elite taught Ergo to keep his mouth shut and play as a passive observer. To survive he had to convince Frohd that he knew little of his father's schemes and was nothing more than an easily manipulated child.

Glast Sr alienated his son with the hope that if his plans failed Ergo would not be killed as revenge or collateral. Ergo, on the other hand, befriended Frohd's only son, Darvo, gaining the trust of both him and his father. He also had his own business associates and friends, some of whom joined the Perrin Sequence after leaving the Corpus, becoming the foundational members of the syndicate. 

While his father was still alive, Ergo never did quite grasp what the "great conspiracy" was and only after his death did Ergo realize that his father always knew two things:

1) Parvos Granum was still alive.

2) Nef Anyo is the son of Parvos and thus, the rightful heir to the Corpus.

Recovering more holokeys left by his father made Ergo realize that Glast Sr had a lot of dirt on the Corpus and it was scattered throughout networks all over the Origin system. A lot of it seemed outlandish but during his own lifetime Ergo saw several companies and great entrepreneurs go down in flames just like his father had predicted. To his surprise, his father even predicted which of Ergo's contemporaries would betray him and which would join him to become Perrin. If only Ergo knew sooner.

Many Corpus are interested in Orokin technology - warframes, sentient technology, void technology. Glast Sr, however, always stayed "within his means", at least that is what Ergo believed when he was younger. Some of the holokeys left by his father alluded to "different outcomes during one lifetime" which Ergo realized was a reference to Eternalism. Of course his father's findings would seem like incoherent ramblings to someone working within the means of a Presentism timeline.

Ergo initially believed Eternalism to be a fringe Orokin theory, but only after meeting the Drifter did he start realizing that his father had tapped into multiple timelines, thus predicting betrayal before it even happened. You're only a conspiracy theorist until you're right.

To this day Ergo seeks out the holokeys with the hopes of better understanding his father. The machinations and intrigues of the Corpus no longer interest him, as it is a machine far too well oiled to be disturbed by the sticks of one man, however, the desire to understand the person most important yet most strange to him kept drawing Ergo in.

"Can't you see the resemblance?"
"No, not really."
Oh, how wrong he was.