Talk:Sentient/@comment-179.26.163.204-20150128131836

I think the Orokin were not a race or sub race but a class of elite scientists and engineers who at the time of the old war ruled the human sphere of space. By their actions in creating the Tenno, involving human experimentation, and mutilation, we can presume that the lives of the lower classes meant little to them. The Sentients ( the name meaning those that can feel), sounds like the name of a rebel group; an uprising of the oppressed lower classes against the elite Orokins. The very name Sentients, implying that they can feel and thus deserve rights. The Sentients apparently had aquired a means to negate Orokin technical weaponry, (perhaps EMP fields) rendering Orokin droids, drones, cyborgs, and beam weapons useless. In desperation to maintain power the Orokin created the Tenno, and that proved effective; until the Tenno realized they were fighting for the wrong side. A plan was created between the Tenno and the Sentients and orchestrated by the Lotus. The Sentients fell back and then "surrendered" and the Tenno, returning home in victory slaughtered the Orokin.