Talk:Story and History/@comment-16584725-20140221145932

Most of the things in the article doesn't really make sense to me. I think there is actually no connection to Dark Sector whatsoever, other than earlier theme.

Orokin were humanoids. Calling something 'sentient' doesn't mean you yourself are not sentient. It just implies that said thing should not be sentient under normal circumstances. For example AI.

Orokin could use Void for dimensional jumps for quick travel, which sometimes didn't work out and they lost ships or crew. By experimenting they found out that instead of adults, who should be more resilient and less likely to 'fail', it was children who could easier adapt to Void energies because they were still developing. This corrupted energy gave them powers but they needed guidance thus The Lotus group was created. They were given warframes which helped them to control their powers and provided some basic protection. Those suits were slightly modified battle gears used by normal soldiers (Low Guardians).

But not everything went right. Some of the corrupted showed signs of being dominated by Void energy and strange mutations started appearing. While manageable at first and even being utilized, they soon turned into aggresive cancer-type forms and started Infecting everything around. As there was more pressing matter (war with Sentients), this infestation was simply confined to be deal with later.

Those few succesfully created Tenno were enough to stop Sentients but that caused balance to shift the other way. Combination of vague orders given to Lotus AI, grudge laying inside Tennos and whispering of Void corruption, they turned against Orokin. When The Lotus become aware of what happened, they put Tennos to sleep. Those few of Orokin who survived in hidding were foundation for new factions which appeared later (Grineer, Corpus).

(Which might also be completely wrong but hey, it could happen, right? :)