Talk:Story and History/@comment-174.236.65.119-20140614184331

If believe that humans had to deal with the outbreak of the technocyte, but regardless they survived for the most part and kept building and advancing. After some time they devolped advanced AI to help them, but eventually the AIs practically controlled everything, including the humans who were left. Some humans blindly followed the AIs, now called the orokin, while others formed a resistance, the Sentients. I also believe they had the lotus helping them since the beginning, and that she was some kind of technology genius which is why the Orokin could never win with just technology. So they made the Tenno from those humans who were loyal to them, initially children as ember's description says, though I would think more for testing whatever it is the Tenno are afflicted with. Then they sent into loyal adult humans, who began fighting the Sentients, aka regular humans. However, over time the lotus was able to convince the Tenno to join them, whether it was through guilting then since they were all humans or another means. So the Tenno carefully planned when to betray the Orokin, and when they did, they killed the humans loyal to them, among which were the stalker's group the low guardians, and also destroyed the AIs controlling the whole empire bringing about its downfall. After this, with only humans left they spread out among the stars while the Tenno went into cryosleep along with the lotus as they had no more purpose. This could also be around the time that everything received the lotus branding, which might simply be a symbol for a united humans. The lotus would however wake up in regular intervals to check up on the situation in the solar system, and when she woke up in present day she saw that regular humans, essentially the ones we were trying to save from the grineer during the invasion event, Regular humans without a disposition for being crazy, we're being threatened, she sprung into action, first awakening a few Tenno (closed beta) to realizing she needs a lot more bodies for this and awakening a lot more (open beta). At least that's what I think.