Talk:Ballas/@comment-91.230.157.247-20180115214935/@comment-4448946-20180129083545

'The Orokin' are just the people of 'The Orokin Empire' the same way 'The Romans' were there people of 'The Roman Empire.

Through the Simaris synthesis entries and other lore entries it's fairly obvious that the Orokin had a caste system with each class having it's own level of genetic "purity". The Executive, what Ballas was, were the highest class, then the Sectarus and somewhere below them Enginus and it's implied there are more classes below that. The Tenno and everybody else on the Zarimam 10-0 were just lower class Orokin.