Talk:Ballas/@comment-1373090-20180628175406/@comment-24.231.133.238-20180710060919

Yeah, I don't think you get Ballas, because your information isn't quite up to snuff. If we use the Detron Crewman's Synthisis Entry as timeline (The Memory seems to take place immediately after Margulis's death), then Ballas (supversively) authorized development of the Sentients. Which means your list of events isn't even remotely in line with the timeline.

The Tenno came before anything else. They were locked away in cyro on Lua for God knows how long until Ballas defrosted them for combating the Sentients.

But regardless of this, Ballas conspired to develop the Sentients before Margulis's death, probably during her trial. Ballas even acknowledged the dangers that the Sentients posed to Orokin; he was intimately aware of the threat of Technological Singularity. But he conspired to develop the Sentients all the same, implying that Ballas wanted to endanger the Orokin well before the Sentients, Infested, or Warframes had been developed.

Revenge for Margulis's death seems to be his motive; everything he authorized and developed (Sentients; Infested; Warframes) were likely intended to bring down the Orokin civilization.

So in otherwords, Ballas didn't fail at all. It just took him a couple centuries to screw the Orokin over. I have no doubt whatsoever that the order given to the Tenno to eradicate the Orokin came from Ballas himself.

Gotta hand it to him as a character really. The man who has everything, except the one thing he wants most of all; a cynical God overcome with self loathing and bitterness; an arrogant genocidal prick with a healthy dose of subtlety and charisma.