Talk:Story and History/@comment-5.68.45.110-20140506050608

My Theory

Tenno - Orokin Children augmented with Void energies and given frames that enhances their abilities. The frames were made by experiments with the reengineered Technocyte virus from Dark Sector. They based their new 'Tenno' after the historical figure of the first outbreak's era.

Orokin - Scientifically advanced Humans.

Sentients - I think in this case it would make most sense that these were Rogue AI that had begun to rebel against the Orokin, most likely due to them gaining sentience and believing themselves to be enslaved or that their masters were irresponsible. The usual AI rebelling reasons. This would explain the reason why the Orokin's advancements in weaponry in the war only enabled the Sentients to kill them more easily. It is also possible that some of these AI's were Neural Sentries, able to control the towers.

Lotus - I think this would be an AI that oversaw the original program to design and train the Tenno, so they could fight the Sentients. Using an AI, would be more efficient that having to train people so they can train others and so on. I also think it might be possible that while training the Tenno initially, she put them all through mental conditioning so that their loyalty was ultimately to her, rather than the Orokin. However, it is possible that the Lotus had also become self-aware and decided that both factions were guilty of being irresponsible. At this point it is possible that it ordered the Tenno to terminate the Orokin after defeating the Sentients, restoring a balance to the solar system. A theme of hers.

Stalker - I like his myterious feel. But if I had to place him, I'd say he was a Tenno who wasn't as influenced by the Lotus as the others, thus him viewing them as betrayers. It is also possible he went into Cryo-stasis until the Tenno came out of hiding, so he could more easily seek revenge against them.