Talk:Infested/@comment-87.114.248.22-20141031055035/@comment-7645613-20141120013123

The sentients according to lore that we have now acted in a way similar to the borg off of star trek, they assimilated orokin technology into their own and learned defense mechanisms quickly. The tenno were created to counter this by adding in a randomization variable, utilizing older technology that most likely was not adaptable by such a powerful foe. think a civilization 5 thousand years from now finding a tape player or something, it's not impossible to adapt to but due to it's age it would be hard to adapt quickly enough.

that's my theory anyway, for all we know the sentients could have been further experiments of the orokin or something. according to rhino prime's codex entry the orokin engineers were not saints by any means and their creation of the tenno was a path littered with failed biological engineering experiments that were kept like animals.