Lore question: Sentients
The fuck do Sentients want now? They got their revenge from the Orokin Empire already. They are so smart they figured out Orokin would destroy Tau system or rule it (I'm not sure what exactly it means to lay waste to Tau system). I get it; in the beginning Warframes and Sentients were killing each other, but it was all under the control of Orokins. Now that the empire is no more, why are the Sentients still seem to want to wipe out the entire Solar system? Was it just because of Hunhow's hatred towards tenno and warframes?
Posted Aug 27, 2018, 11:54 PM UTC
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They were created to prepare Tau for the Orokin. Whatever perils both the journey to it and the planets there provided required them to sacrifice themselves adapting both themselves to keep working and the planets themselves for The Plan, on top of potentially committing mass suicide by attempting to travel the Rails back to the Origin system. When they made the Sentients originally as adapting terraforming drones they acknowledged the threat of them becoming intelligent and rebelling but continued on anyway, most likely out of belief it either wouldn't happen or would happen too late for it to mean disaster. Obviously they grew so fast they went from simple machines to a whole different kind of intelligent lifeform, and they realized all this. To put it lightly, they were incredibly insulted by this and grew to completely hate the Orokin as a whole. They felt it was necessary to destroy the Orokin Empire to save both systems.
However, it seems that their hate for the Orokin extends not just to the golden people but to all others born from and under the Orokin Empire. Even in its collapsed state I'm quite sure they'll stay on that track because of how the Origin System has suffered under the hands of power that have taken over in the Orokin's absence; both the Grineer and the Corpus seek to conquer the system and enslave its people and resources for their gain, the Infestation lifeform seeks to assimilate everything in its path to make everything in their vain image, and the Tenno are a warrior faction perpetuating the power struggle using both weapons made from Infestation aka Warframes while also bearing the ability to wield the very energy that threatens the Sentient race. It's easy to see why they thought it was necessary to take preemptive measures.
So basic US war justifications...
US/hunhow: They have "wmd!!!" / "they have orokin!"
UN/logic: "Not anymore they don't"
US/hunhow/simaris:"fucking irrelevant!"
Pretty much, also yay for BNP Simaris reference. Since everyone and everything is pretty much Orokin, Orokin made or just generally able to do the same shit the Orokin did at this point, this is pretty much their argument.