Each Ork possesses an instinctive grasp of tactics and weapon maintenance, while their scientists (the technologically talented Mekboyz and the medically gifted Painboyz) are born with an innate understanding of their field of study that they call 'Orky know-wots'.

As a result, Orks are tough enough to shrug off anything less than a bolter shell to the head and can even survive decapitation in time for a body transplant, and are strong enough to tear apart even a Space Marine in close combat. What little can be gleaned of the history of the greenskins indicates that their kind go as far back as the ancient Aeldari, when a long-forgotten precursor race (referred to by the Orks as 'Brain Boyz') engineered them to be the ultimate warriors. Part of the Orks' success comes from their unique biology. While such events were once fairly uncommon, the anarchy and violence consuming the galaxy in the wake of the opening of the Great Rift (known to the Orks as Gork's Grin) has agitated the greenskins like never before and an increasing number of Waaaghs! are being launched by successive Warbosses. Described as a combination of mass migration, holy war and soccer riot, a full-scale Waaagh! can exterminate entire civilisations and shake the very foundations of the galaxy. This makes the Orks as a whole naturally fractious, but when a particularly strong and charismatic Warboss (which is typically the biggest and strongest Ork around) is able to unite a number of tribes, a Waaagh! is formed.

All of Orkish civilization and 'kultur' is geared towards endless conflict, and their only ruling principle is ' Might Makes Right'. While the majority of their technology tends to be jerry-rigged but effective machines built from whatever material that is available, some of their more eccentric technology is deceptively advanced, capable of rivalling or exceeding anything the Imperium or even the T'au Empire can build, at least when it decides to work. Stubbornly durable, physically powerful and naturally inclined toward violence, Orks are exceptional, if unruly fighters. One of the most populous races in the galaxy of Warhammer 40,000, Orks are a race of green-skinned barbarians, a brutish and bellicose species whose only collective purpose is to wage war on everything else in the universe, including themselves.

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