Talk:The Sacrifice/@comment-2604:6000:A24C:5600:8559:26F8:F202:81DA-20180615110658/@comment-96.55.213.62-20180615194407

"Why did Lotus go full Sentient? She really did care for us, so what happened?"

It could be that she's trying to keep the larger Sentient force out of the Origin system. Pretty sure Hunhow, at one point or another, spoke about the others coming to reclaim her. But she may be thinking, if she goes to them, they won't bother the Tenno. Which is actually not a bad plan right up until the Tenno decide to follow her to the Tau system, cough cough...

As for why she changed and acted that way now: Ballas. He's clearly got ties to the Sentients in some way, so he might have known that they were going to come pretty much right then. It could even be tied to Ballas' demise: if he's the crux in a deal that keeps the main Sentient forces out, then his death means they're coming, and she has only that one hail mary to make them stop: "maybe they'll take me instead".

That'd be quite the sacrifice.

(Or Ballas gave her over to Hunhow and he did his Hunhowing on her to re-convert her, but that feels almost predictable...)