Discover how to find and scan Fragments in Warframe to unlock hidden lore, artwork, and audio transmissions that reveal the secrets of the Origin System and its inhabitants.
Fragments are hidden collectibles scattered throughout the Origin System in Warframe. Scanning or interacting with them unlocks artwork, lore entries, and audio transmissions that provide deeper insight into the game's universe, characters, and factions.
Mechanics
Most Fragments can be scanned using a Codex Scanner or Synthesis Scanner. This process unlocks artwork in the Codex's Universe tab, which can also be used as decorations on your Orbiter. Each unlocked image comes with accompanying lore. Additionally, a hidden point on each image, when hovered over with the cursor, reveals a short audio transmission containing further lore. An audio clue in the form of white noise, which intensifies as the cursor nears the point, helps locate this interactive spot. Other types of Fragments require direct interaction (default key: X) to collect.
Fragments
These Fragments are categorized and ordered by their release date.
Cephalon Fragments
Cephalon Fragments are data pieces found across the Origin System, typically hidden within mission rooms. They appear as hovering blue data blocks. Most planets, moons, and locations (including the Void and Deimos), except for the Kuva Fortress, contain two to three unlockable fragments each, requiring 3 to 7 scans to complete. When using loot radar mods, Cephalon Fragments appear as a blue quadruple diamond on the mini-map. Scanning a fragment unlocks a part of its associated artwork. These fragments can spawn once per mission in random locations, but are not found in Defense, Interception, or Archwing missions. They reveal information about various aspects of the Origin System, including Factions, Characters, and Planets. Decrypting these fragments unlocks lore about Ordis' Past, narrated by Ordis himself.
| 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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