Talk:Sentient/@comment-194.96.154.83-20150410171948/@comment-192.76.8.7-20150424024652

You are reading it slightly weirdly.

The first part of that sentence is "this forced them to use". They didn't choose to switch to the low tech weapons - so what's implied is that the Orokin found themselves with a choice between "swords" and "no weapons whatsoever"!