Talk:Ballas/@comment-14.236.157.26-20181012171415/@comment-178.202.148.219-20181012195018

It seems the Man in the Wall led us to a chamber located within some Sentient base. Whether or not this is the same place Ballas led the Lotus to during the Apostasy Prologue still has to be determined, but it's likely.

After the events of The Sacrifice Natah brought a dying Ballas back to this base, where in order to keep him from dying they did... something to him to turn him part-Sentient.

I'm not sure if they fused him to a sentient drone, changed his tissue into Sentient bone or something else entirely, but what is certain is that this left him traumatised. He noticed or felt our presence and seems to have decided that the Sentients cannot be allowed to win this war, so he gave us an image, a blueprint of a weapon that could give us an advantage for what's coming.

As for Natah, Ballas implies (or rather outright states but he's neither trustworthy nor reliable) that Natah was just using everyone this entire time. That both the Lotus and the image of Margulis he saw in her was just that: an image. A fake persona made up from our deepest desires to gain our affection, our trust.

That's what i gathered from it.