Uncover the hidden lore of Warframe's Origin System by finding and scanning various Fragments, including Cephalon, Fish, Glass, and more. Unlock artwork and audio transmissions.
Fragments are hidden collectibles scattered throughout the Origin System in WARFRAME. Finding and scanning these fragments unlocks written and audiovisual lore that enriches the game's setting. Most fragments can be scanned using a Codex or Synthesis Scanner, revealing artwork in the Codex's Universe tab. These images can also be used as decorations on the Orbiter 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, signaled by white noise that intensifies as you get closer.
Other types of Fragments require direct interaction (default X) to acquire.
Fragments
These Fragments are ordered by their release date.
Cephalon Fragments
Cephalon Fragments are data pieces found throughout the Origin System, often hidden in mission rooms and visualized as hovering blue data blocks. Each navigable planet, moon, or location (excluding the Kuva Fortress) contains two to three unlockable fragments, each needing 3 to 7 scans. 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. They can be found once per mission in random locations, except in Defense, Interception, and Archwing missions. These fragments reveal information about the Origin System's Factions, Characters, and Planets. Decrypting them 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
| Venus | 3 | Newly awakened, and with no permanent location to call home, Tenno warriors have aligned to construct secret temples of their own. The architecture within is distinctly Tenno in origin, but these hidden places of bonding, training and meditation are undeniably influenced by Orokin architecture. | I feel a dull pain; a phantom life... there are holes in my diagnostics. If the Orokin made me... they omitted the 'how'. I am neither code, nor precepts... I must be a reflection of something... ugly. |
| Venus | 3 | Predominantly a merchant guild, Corpus labour and security forces are composed of mostly purpose-bred humanoid crewmen, and animal-like robots; both equally indoctrinated into a ritualized and propagandist devotion to labour and work. | I should have stopped. But the Operator slept and I cycled on and on and on. I began to think that a Cephalon cannot be made. They are found, like pearls, torn from muscle. Polished, and then set in chains. |
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