It is currently unknown whether the process of Continuity – the transference of an Orokin mind into a new body – is the key to this immortality or not.Ĭephalon Fragments Main article: Fragments/CephalonĬephalon Fragments recovered throughout the system secretly reveal Ballas' involvement in the creation of Cephalon Ordis, who he created from the mind of a mercenary warrior named Ordan Karris, bound to servitude with modified memories as punishment for the latter's attempt at killing him.
Much like Corrupted Vor, who proclaims that he is 'energy', an immortal being incapable of death, Ballas and other high-ranking Orokin appear to be undying, as elaborated in the Fragments. He is also believed to be the Orokin primarily responsible for the development of Transference and the creation of the Warframes.
Ballas was an Orokin Executor prior to the fall of the Orokin Empire, and presumably also the lover of Margulis, whom he attempted to convince to destroy the Tenno for her own safety - an act which ultimately proved futile.
