Talk:Story and History/@comment-68.69.217.81-20140629185738

I've had a bit of a theory for a while... Remember in the Devstream where they were showing sneak-peaks of the Orokin Derelicts and Steve said that they were "filled with the remnants of what destroyed them"? Well there are basically two non-Orokin things in those ships. There are Infested (Who the Orokin created to fight the Sentients btw, Steve stated that really early on) and there are all the "trees" growing through everything. So either the Infested got out of control and turned on the Orokin, or these trees have some part in the Orokin's destruction.

Now, remember that in Orokin Void missions, those trees are frozen white and stay confined to exit and enter the circular ports on the floor and wall that contain them. What I'm wondering is why the Orokin had to freeze them solid when they could have simply trimmed them or some other less-drastic measure. When the trees aren't frozen, they give off a sparkling blue "pollen" that looks similar to the orange visual effect in infested levels.

The comment made earlier on in this thread is that the Sentients must have been previously non-Sentient (or at least perceived as such) otherwise their name wouldn't make much sense. Therefore I put forth that the Orokin found out that the organism that they were using for some purpose in their towers (they look an awful lot like conduits to me) had either achieved or been hiding sentience, and were now attempting to rebel against their enslavement (A pretty deadly rebellion given that the Sentience would have agents in every Orokin structure, and theoretically have a very widespread communication network being run through the walls)