Talk:Ballas/@comment-2602:304:AB37:5889:4549:ECAB:CC98:57B0-20190704063005/@comment-170.249.153.179-20191102053935

Yeah I'm under the impression that the Lotus' mask contains an imprint of Margulis's mind and personality, which Natah could use to impersonate her as part of the Sentients' plan to destroy the Orokin via manipulating the Tenno. This appeared to have the unexpected side-effect of endowing the Lotus with Margulis' maternal instincts, which drove her to deviate from the plan by protecting and nurturing the Tenno instead of destroying them, while using them to prevent other hostile factions from filling the power vacuum left by the death of the Orokin and thus threatening the Orokin and Tau systems as they did.

This would necessitate that Ballas is mistaken in his belief that Margulis/The Lotus is the figure he freed from the containment chamber rather than the helm she discarded before she left with him; this would then imply that the Natah opposing us is in fact the original Sentient agent sans Margulis' positive influence, possibly influenced further by the Sentient Mothership's machinations instilling or exacerbating the perceptions she exhibited about her time as the Lotus during the Ropalolyst fight.

Meanwhile, amidst all of this, the Lotus lives on to some extent in her mask, guiding and warning us in preparation for the coming New War.