Do Orks have families?

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**KamikazeCanuck**

Xray950 wrote:Heh, this thread was unintentionally informative! I did know that Orks come from spores, however, how do they evolve from there? Are they like plants, developing like a stalk and then growing ars and other body parts from there, or are they a formless pile of goo slowly becoming a fullblown badass ork?
Always wondered about that.

They grow like potatoes.

**shrike**

hmm. well, they are born like fungi- they are released in spores upon death. It could be classed as a family (the "parent" would be dead, but they will have fellow spores "brothers" as such)

**xXSir MontyXx**

ya it is a good idea, I didnt see how it could work until he said it. Good job

**Ixias**

Ok I have written up a rough background of the two. I've posted it over in Dakka Fiction in case anyone is interested. It is quite lengthy though, and I might have made numerous fluff mistakes regarding the other races. Thanks to all posters for the answers and inspiration!

Now then, continue the discussions!

**Emperors Faithful**

"Right hand man".

Da Butcha hit the nail on this one.

**purplefood**

Lexx wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:
Ixias wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:*Snip long post*

Damn...when you put it like that, I really really want them to be twins! I will have to think this over. Friends are much easier to do, but how you described your twin idea is so much more epic! One a mek prodigy that builds shokk attack guns like other meks assemble sluggas, the other a physical fighter strong enough to wrestle a squiggoth! Ok maybe that's greatly exaggerated but I really, really like that idea.

I think it has a lot of story fluff potential:

1. Did chaos simply act as the agent-cause of the biological/physiological split or are they still (even slightly) tainted by chaos?

2. IS their relationship love-hate? Do they feud and bicker seeing the other as weaker/inferior half?

3. Do they complete each other's sentences or feel a psychic "bond" with each other like real world twins claim?

4. Does the Mek plot to find a way to reunite them perhaps using some "invenshun" he hopes to build?

I can see them as arguing one minute and then working together another. maybe they have wild mood swings or dreams due to seeing what the other sees or slip into weird states of dementia at times due to residual shared consciousness and the mental torment it causes, etc., etc.

Just some thoughts...

It nearly sounds like the 40k Ork equivelant of Twins . Want a Big Mek Danny Devito now.

But seriously though. It sounds like it has potential the way he wrote it.

Ha! Small Big Mek.

**EwanLumsden**

hmmm................naw