Talk:Unnamed Sentient Mother/@comment-91.2.40.49-20190608163630/@comment-170.249.153.179-20191221031240

Considering the fact that the Sentients were intended to establish a foothold in the Tau system for the Orokin to colonize, i.e. terraforming worlds, building colonies, and constructing a Solar Rail connecting back to the Origin system, I'm pretty sure the "My mother was a carpenter" thing was a metaphor showing how Natah and the other Sentients saw themselves as people with relationships, professions, and pride in and love for the above, rather than simply the advanced terraforming automata the Orokin saw them as.

In short it was meant to, for lack of a better term, "humanize" the Sentients a bit by explaining how they viewed what they were and did using familiar terms and professions.