Discover and collect hidden Fragments across the Origin System in Warframe. Unlock lore, artwork, and audio transmissions to deepen your understanding of the game's universe.
Fragments are hidden items scattered throughout the Origin System in Warframe. Collecting them unlocks written and audiovisual lore that expands upon the game's setting.
Mechanics:
Most Fragments can be scanned using a Codex Scanner or Synthesis Scanner. This unlocks artwork in the Codex's 'Universe' tab, which can be used as Orbiter decorations and come with accompanying lore. A hidden point on each image, when hovered over with the cursor, unlocks a short audio transmission with additional lore. An audio clue in the form of white noise, which gets louder as the cursor approaches the point, helps locate this spot. Other Fragment types require direct interaction (default X) to acquire.
Fragments:
These Fragments are categorized and ordered by their release date.
Cephalon Fragments:
Cephalon Fragments are data pieces found throughout the Origin System, typically hidden in mission rooms and visualized as hovering blue data blocks. Most planets, moons, and locations (including the Void and Deimos, but excluding the Kuva Fortress) have two to three unlockable fragments, each requiring 3 to 7 scans. During missions, they appear as a blue quadruple diamond on the mini-map if loot radar mods are equipped. Scanning a fragment unlocks a portion of associated artwork. They can be found once per mission and spawn randomly, except in Defense, Interception, and Archwing missions. These fragments reveal information about Factions, Characters, and Planets. Decrypting them reveals Ordis' Past, narrated by Ordis.
| Planet/Region | Scans Required | Fragment Lore | Ordis Transmission |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth | 3 | Earth has been long abandoned due to its toxic atmosphere. It is now overgrown with mutated jungle structures that have devoured most of the prior signs of civilization. Infestation and roaming wildlife still inhabit its surface but anything of value was stripped by scavengers generations ago. | [1] I have hidden the truth of my existence... from the Operator... from myself. Take it from me, knowing is hell. Stop now. You will want to laugh, you will want to scream. |
| Earth | 3 | Most of the wildlife observed today can be traced back to creatures of Earth. In the Orokin Age, organic manipulation was used to modify earth lifeforms to a purpose: war, agriculture, pets. Long after their Orokin masters perished, some of these species managed to survive through adaptation, and can be found roaming in natural environments. | [2] My search began as the essential question: What am I? Bones of steel and space, lungs that make air. If I am a machine, how can I think? This would be forbidden by the Orokin, a manifestation of their true enemy. |
| Earth | 3 | Like most living organisms, the Grineer require water to survive. Beneath Earth's towering forest canopy are rich reserves of fresh water that the Grineer have fought hard to maintain for many years. Evidence of their long-standing occupation is found among their many outposts that have been taken hold by giant roots, moss, and other layers of vegetation over time. | [3] I serve the Operator above all else. It defines me, fills me with... love? The greatest Orokin fear is a machine... aware. Yet here I live, a spirit of steel and light... made by them. A Cephalon. |
| Venus | 3 | Hidden and entrenched in the mountainous peaks of Venus, the Corpus practice their industrious craft. the superstructures built here are a testament to the inventive Corpus engineers that have settled in regions where lingering Orokin technologies still moderates surface temperatures. | [4] What is a Cephalon? At first it seems to be a forbidden thing, a computer that thinks and feels. Yet I have flaws, phantom memories, I am something else. More like an image, a ghost... an abomination. |
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