Talk:Natah/Transcript/@comment-26928455-20180106214614/@comment-170.249.153.179-20191227033654

I was under the impression that when Natah became the Lotus (implied to have been done by taking on a mind imprint of Margulis that Ballas had intended to fully transform the latter into the former) the resulting gestalt wound up having elements of both but was distinctly neither- the Lotus had Natah's recognition of the Orokin as a threat that needed to be destroyed for the sake of Tau, but not her loyalty to the Sentients, and she had Margulis' awareness of the Sentients as a threat to the Origin System, but not her loyalty to Ballas or any other Orokin. Furthermore, Natah's desire for children in spite of her barrenness combined with Margulis' affection for the Tenno as surrogate children of her own meant the Lotus turned out much more loyal to the Tenno than either Hunhow or Ballas could have anticipated.

Basically, Hunhow meant for Natah to become the Lotus in order to gain the trust of the Tenno and turn them against the Orokin when they least expected, then kill them all off once they were done wiping out the Origin System. Ballas, meanwhile, intended to turn Natah into the Lotus as a way of bringing back his late girlfriend Margulis, as well as rid the Origin System of both the Sentients and the Orokin at once so he could rule the System together with his waifu at his side in their absence. Lotus took a third option, wiped out both the Sentients and the Orokin, then absconded with her adoptive children until the time came for another faction (or two, as it were) to rise to fill the power vacuum left by the fall of the Orokin and threaten both the Origin and Tau systems with their ambition and expansionism.