Talk:Dragon Nikana/@comment-75.164.233.216-20140604033612/@comment-88.113.178.17-20140727090146

^ Not so much "created" as "systematically produced", if I've understood the lore snippets correctly. And the overhead of candidates who didn't survive exposure to the Void and doubtless perished in unpleasant fashions was presumably of ghastly proportions.

One gets the impression they did, however, more or less fabricate Tenno *culture* out of whole cloth, no doubt to give their new corps of half-mad supersoldiers some kind of anchor and sense of belonging. Attempts to ingrain loyalty to the Powers That Be were doubtless involved; ask the Stalker how well *that* worked...