[Post-Chimera Spoilers] Ropalolyst Lore

[Kerberos-3]

21 hours ago, evilChair said:

how about putting together a suspect list, then? red veil and the quills seem to sit on top of it.

It should've been obvious from the end of chimera that it's the helmet who's "the lotus". maybe ballas copied margulis' personality onto the helmet to "archive" her mind before she was executed.

anyways, the helmet is obviously a personality control device and it's there in the orbiter to get slammed on somebody's head for a reason. maybe again natah's, maybe someone else's. but the helmet is important because you don't put a thing front and centre in an important doorway so that it's the first thing that you see when you enter.

natah wants to pull some kind of borg-plot on everything (probably lifted the idea off of the infestation), and she knows about wally, while lotus had neither in mind. again, the helmet suppressed the intention and that knowledge.

also of note is that we will be aligning with hunhow. he didn't want natah to rejoin the hivemind. he'll have to set aside his hatred for the orokin and cooperate with the zariman kids if he wants his own kid back. this is what he says near the end of natah:

 

Perhaps Hunhow was a slight renegade within the Sentient's ranks, a semi-reasonable person who is perfectly willing to bargain with enemies if it means protecting the things he values most. He partnered with the Stalker, a remnant of the Orokin, to try to destroy us because we are a threat. It might be that he sees his own kind as a greater threat to Natah than us, seeing as we went out of our way to protect her, repeatedly.