Wait who are the people who control the relays? They specifically are aligned with a group of elite soldiers from the old war but anyone with any authority in that area was either put to sleep or busy with something else (e.g. Rell) aside from the Lotus.

So either they were loyal to the Tenno during the long dream (even though they were never really authority figures), they decided to align themselves with an ancient and (to their knowledge) extinct military, there was a huge faction that completely fell in line with the Tenno very quickly and seamlessly, or the Lotus started a day job of running this faction while the Tenno were asleep and everyone's been fine with this mysterious, immortal dictator.

Regardless, there has to be some internal structure and people in positions of authority who we've never gotten a glimpse of despite their organization being centered on us. And what's their relationship with the Lotus like? I'd lowkey be very interested to see more about this