Talk:Orokin/@comment-176.71.165.242-20140404094305

Adding a new theory.

The Orokin were genetically superior humans, who valued wealth, logic, reason and materialism.

For all we know it seem they were masters of bio-technology and energy weapons. They discovered materials with unique properties such as mutating viral bio-matter and shape-shifting crafting materials.

The Sentients seem to have been their opposites. They were able to use their weapons against the Orokin, even after their attempts to become more advanced.

To combat them the Technocyte virus was used to create biotech weaponry and soldiers, as well as a Viral weapon.

Now, we know the Orokin used mind-control. They might even hav been their way of life, Emotion supression through Neural Harness. Even the Tenno were cold and without mercy, stoic meaning devoid of emotion.

Why would a technologically superior culture and race use biotech weaponry ina war? Why not use energy weapons and robotics that they clearly had?

I believe the answer lies in the fact the Sentients were biological, perhaps a race of parasitical beings - possibly connected to the Void ( They only turned to the Void after the initial failure of the Technocyte army), who could posess and control humans, "infecting" them so to speak.

Biotechnology would be countered with bioweapons, it makes perfect sense.

But even this failed, the Sentients were emotional, passionate beings and the Orokins Logic and reasoning failed to devise strategies to defeat them.

In the end of the war the Tenno were born out of the Void Fires. They were cold and hard like the Orokin, but they were handled by the Lotus, sentient AI contructs who guided them in battle. They became the Tenno consciense.

With the use of weapons of old, something the Orokin and the Sentients were unfamiliar with, the Tenno began being very successful and pushed the Sentients back. They had the edge of being without emotional reasoning, yet were guided by Lotus who understood how to fight the Sentients.

The void-powers likely made them resiliant to the Sentients control and after a long war the Sentients fled through the Gates at Outer Terminus who was destroyed by either side to ensure the war ended. Nowwhere have I seen that either the Orokin or the Sentients were all exterminated, simply that the war ended.

The Tenno also hid after the war, suggesting they hid from something implying that the enemy might still return.