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I'm here to discuss Orks, where do they come from? Here's my theory:

I figure orks don't 'reproduce', because there have been no female orks. Here are 3 possiblitys why:

1: Orks themselves do not have genitials.
2: Some 'animals' are bisexual... and.. well... you get the point... (I also realize this kills off my 'they dont mate' thing)

But, my theory is that they are grown in the ground, which would explain the greeness, the would most likely be able to photosynthisis, as well as cellular respirate. Although the strict 'greeness' of orks would be inert if they were technickly plants, making them able to be born blue, red, purple, etc.

Thanks for reading!

P.S. Don't turn this into a flamefest.

They are mushroom monsters. Thats the fluff in 1 sentence.

Its all detailed in the ork codex and makes for some good reading.

They reproduce similar to plants, when they die their DNA or whatnot ends up in the ground and results in more orks being grown. So they can never really be truely killed as more grow

But yeah ... basically mushroom monsters.... "shrugs"
Want it clearer than that, best get the codex or at least sneek a read at your local store. "Heresy!"

When an Ork dies, he releases a buttload of spores into the air, and when they end up in the ground, Orks will grow. These spores can drift through space, so that's why Orks seem to magically appear on a planet.

Thats exciting! >cough< i mean, Filthy Greenskins!

they usually need a shady area to grow fast

and lots of poo-doo... freshly sprouted orks are frequently considered a delicacy on Imperial planets and are served sauted or in soups.

On some planets, the spores are collected and allowed reproduce in a brine solution to form a thick slurry which is then rapidly evaporated to form a slightly sticky green sheet used to wrap rice and the raw flesh of a variety of sea life.

Thus is the life of a young ork.

Gavin Thorne wrote:and lots of poo-doo... freshly sprouted orks are frequently considered a delicacy on Imperial planets and are served sauted or in soups.

On some planets, the spores are collected and allowed reproduce in a brine solution to form a thick slurry which is then rapidly evaporated to form a slightly sticky green sheet used to wrap rice and the raw flesh of a variety of sea life.

Thus is the life of a young ork.

Well, you got ork-scampy, Alaskan ork-bake, ork kabobs. And you can bake em, broil em, fry em, and roast em. Someday Ah'm gonna open a chain of Ork fest restraunts with my friend Forest...

burb1996 wrote:

Gavin Thorne wrote:and lots of poo-doo... freshly sprouted orks are frequently considered a delicacy on Imperial planets and are served sauted or in soups.

On some planets, the spores are collected and allowed reproduce in a brine solution to form a thick slurry which is then rapidly evaporated to form a slightly sticky green sheet used to wrap rice and the raw flesh of a variety of sea life.

Thus is the life of a young ork.

Well, you got ork-scampy, Alaskan ork-bake, ork kabobs. And you can bake em, broil em, fry em, and roast em. Someday Ah'm gonna open a chain of Ork fest restraunts with my friend Forest...

But there are many, many billions of enterprising grots who make quite a haul in teef serving man-jerky, guardsman arm-roast, hive-ganger ribs, stormtrooper stew and the ultimate delicacy, tech-priest fricasee. That's why Orks grow so big!

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:When an Ork dies, he releases a buttload of spores into the air, and when they end up in the ground, Orks will grow. These spores can drift through space, so that's why Orks seem to magically appear on a planet.

Btw, that buttload of spores doesn't actually come from his butt.

Awww....but it is a proven fact that a surprisingly large number of people do in fact crap themselves when they die....So I guess there is no more kudos of "Man, your army is the !" Beacuse we now know that in fact they are not...

Wat?

Orks reproduce by producing spores (constantly shedding them) then the spores grow.
The higher the concentration of orky beings the more advanced the resulting ork.

So 1 ork all alone would produce some fungi and small squigs.
Which spore to make snotlings
Whach spore to make grots
Which spore to make orks
Etc etc.
But many of the spores still make the lower level organisms because they work best when the entire ecology is there.

Essentially given time they will completely recolonise a world to their ecosystem.

Yeah, thinkof orks as vig, vicious plants. They drop there seeds and, if the conditions are right, these seeds grow into other forms of orks... They generally grow best in dank places like forests and caves

I remember in the old ork dex's that the spore need to be in a shady area, then first squigs come out, then grots and then the ork, i wonder how many come out per spore?

Actually, I think snotlings come first to establish a food supply, Squigs come to start building up the ork ecosystem and then Grots come to prepare the site for when the big guys pop out of the ground. They do need to be in shady areas, though.

and once your done, you suck them up in a shokk attack gun and shoot them at someone =)

Damn right, boy! lol shoot dem gits!

aaahh ... but where to squiggoths fit into all of this ???

In xenology they say that squigs, snotlings, orks, squigoths etc. all come from the same common heritage and spores can sprout anyone of them depending on the environment around them, which is affected also by a "pshycic waaagh phenomenon."

So id imagine the greater the waaagh the more likely it will sprout a squigoth.

an area with less ork presence and waagh they will sprout snotlings and squigs to establish food suply and prepare the ground etc, like seggi said.

Default wrote:1: Orks themselves do not have genitials.

By the disection in the book, it seems to be the case. They got no balls whatsoever.

Well, Squig herder seems to think Squiggoths are simply Squigs that aren't killed and eaten, and eventually keep gaining in size. I'd be tempted to agree. Maybe they are simply Squigs with slightly different genes that grow quicker and larger?
Maybe that WAAAGH phenomenon is true, it would make sense that Squiggoths have different genes, but maybe it's not because of greater forces that Squiggoths are created, Maybe Squiggoths help form greater forces?

Alternatively, on the topic of Squiggoths, perhaps they are like the rest of Ork society and they simply sprout after a certain period of time. Greater societies would form over longer periods of time. And, squiggoths would take a long time to sprout, i imagine. Or, perhaps they simply need the perfect, rare conditions that can only come from a large Ork society?

So many different theories... my brain hurts...

They're certainly fun guys to have at a party...

It great when you find humies stuck to your squiggoths feet and maybe some grots

Prolly kills more grots. If I was that big, I wouldn't be preoccupied with 'alliances'

I have not herder of what it eats, what if it is a gentle giant? it could be a veggisaur lol

I think from all the fluf that it eats meat, would it eat a warboss if it got hungry?

Can orks be vegetarians? Wouldn't that be cannabilism?

It would be heresy lol i think the orks are happy eating meat for now, maybe a madboy is a veggi?

Seggi wrote:Well, Squig herder seems to think Squiggoths are simply Squigs that aren't killed and eaten, and eventually keep gaining in size.

A Sguig warboss maybe? =O

lol, maybe...they're certainly big enough.

but when you think about it ... feral orks have lots of squiggoths ... and their WAAAGH!'s are rather small compared to propper "dakka dakka" WAAAGH!'s ... for instance ... when Warlord Ghazghkull attacked armageddon ... there was no squigoths presant ... according to WD290 ... mainly warbands with gargants , speed freeks and artillery warbands ... surly there wud be loadsa squiggoths produced from a WAAAGH! that big ... and yet ... no feral warbands ... =/

I think that Ghazkull is more a boy and trukk warboss, dont you think? if he was a snakebite then i think he would of had atleast a few