Talk:Orokin/@comment-176.71.165.242-20140404094305/@comment-92.251.119.212-20140804105158

To me it sounds more like the sentients could refer to the corrupted, since it is the only enemy in game than makes use of other enemies and only Tenno aren't seen under it's control, so maybe the neural sentry was a breakthrough in technology, but once it became sentient it started taking over other enemies and waged a war on the Orokin.

Either that or here's another idea I had for what the sentients could be

The sentients could be the infestation under a hive mind, when you think about it it makes sense, Mirage was overwhelmed by sentients yet you find every piece of her in infested areas. Also it says that the sentients just took the orokins technology and made use of it, would make sense since the infested can also infest machinery. That would also mean that the Orokin Derelict was a ship that was taken over by the infestation, however the tenno managed to defeat the infested but not entirely.

For both scenarios the thing in common is it seems that the Tenno are the only ones capable of fighting them, it could be the Tenno betrayed the Orokin since they noticed that a war like it could happen again since they were willing to delve into dangerous areas of science. They then hid where they hibernated since they knew that they weren't needed for now and left the lotus in charge to wake them up if needed, however staying asleep so long affected their memories.