Talk:Tenno/@comment-178.129.152.62-20140729084838/@comment-99.62.232.60-20141212100250

The way I see it, it's simple what happened at the Mercury Terminus, and Lotus very well may have given the order. She, or they, simply realized, what you do with your guns when the war is over forever.

You melt them down.

So, less of a slaughter and more of a preemptive strike, possibly even a coup d'etat, though to the loyalists in the lower ranks, it would seem an unprovoked slaughter, without foreknowledge of the Orokin's intentions.