Talk:Tenno/@comment-59.125.15.134-20151215053600/@comment-66.58.201.137-20151222132927

I've been wondering on the politics of the Orokin collapse too, and how much we had to do with it. Evidently we butchered them all; but the crux of the matter seems to be did the deserve it. I won't get into the Lotus control theory (though I do think it is the most likely) because that isn't really the heart of your interesting point. I'd have to disagree with you though, there were other ways to take our freedom: we could have just ceded from the empire. What we did was evidently cold calculated and vengeful (one way or another). From the entry of the Stalker, " Tenno were not stoic and silent. They were waiting. They were poised. I tried to call out but only a strangled whisper escaped."When the ninth beat rang a torrent of blood filled the stadium, loosed by Tenno blades. The drums, the Empire, fell silent forever." This doesn't ring of freedom fighting, it rings of a slaughter. Even if the empire was bloody, corrupt, and greedy (as the lore seems to suggest) this doesn't seem fitting. And to those who call this justice for the original Orokin plan to kill the Tenno: how could the Tenno claim moral superiority when they validated every ‘irrational’ concern the Orokin had?  