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So here's the deal. My friends and I all participate in a role-play in 40k that I coordinate. I added an army of Orks whose Warboss questioned Gork and Mork enough to convert to the Adeptus Ministorum. I am merely wondering if this would at all be plausible. I made them up without thinking at first and jumped straight into a story with my friends.

Umm I dare say no, Orks are not known for their love for humans. Well outside the battlefield and the dinner related issues. And beside, their Orks! That alone is a death sentence in the Imperium of man

You make an excellent point. The way I had them set up was that the Warboss had happened upon a Litany after escaping the destruction of his previous Waagh. He floated through space for a week or so and during that time he actually 'thought' about his religion and way of life.May have been thinking too far out of the box there...Seemed like a cool idea though.

An Ork questioning Gork and Mork is a little out there, but your bigger issue is that the Imperium would NEVER, EVER accept orks as part of the empire.

You're going to find more luck with ork Freebooters (like pirates or mercenaries) or Blood Axes (who are generally eager to trade with humans for weapons), and humans who are on the fringes of Imperial society (like a Rogue Trader or Explorator team). That's where you're going to get some crossover, as things become more realpolitik and less puritanical.

I once wrote a campaign where a Rogue Trader whose charter had been revoked for gun running and an Ork Freebooter captain each knew half the information leading to a missing Dark Age relic, but didn't trust each other enough to share, so they were half cooperating and half trying to backstab one another, while an Ordo Xenos inquisitor chased them the whole way. Feel free to steal that, since I stole it from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly anyway.

Well the Inquisitor that discovered the Warboss's cooperative attitude saw it as a way to use the Orks as weapons against the imperium's enemies. So I thought it would piece together well.

I would think that the Tau would be the better option. I am sure they would take the Orks in if they ever would stop killing the diplomats.

 WhazzDakka Da 3rd wrote:
You make an excellent point. The way I had them set up was that the Warboss had happened upon a Litany after escaping the destruction of his previous Waagh. He floated through space for a week or so and during that time he actually 'thought' about his religion and way of life.May have been thinking too far out of the box there...Seemed like a cool idea though.

Floated trough space? As in the void or in a knocked out ship. And it is my understanding that prolonged void exposouser is terminal, even to Orks in that length of time

He fired out of his ship in a large pod and coincidentally happened upon a Litany after a long while. Just space though.

 WhazzDakka Da 3rd wrote:
He fired out of his ship in a large pod and coincidentally happened upon a Litany after a long while. Just space though.

So he was in a life pod? That makes somewhat more sense. But I do feel that Ork finding such a thing would be more likely to whipe his green Xeno behinde with it, than to study and read it.

Simply put, an Ork wouldn't be dissuaded from Gork and Mork. It's engrained in them, in their very DNA. Also, on the subject of your Ork reading a litany, keep in mind that most Orkz cannot actually read. Only the smartest of Kommandos tend to be able to, and even then, it's at a very rudimental level.

That said, as an above poster noted, it's not entirely impossible for an Ork to work with Imperials. Freebootaz will work for whoever's willing to pay them well enough (generally with weapons or shiny things), and Bloodaxes are generally eager to work for weapons as well.

An ork Freeboota following around an Inquisitor or Rogue Trader around, under promise of lots of fighting or weapons (preferably both) would not be unfluffy. Just don't expect him to be allowed out in public.

In fact, I believe there's even some fluff that mentions that if an Ork is deprived of orkiness (ie, combat, aggression, mukkin' about), they actually get sick and die. It's pretty much the only way an Ork will actually go down short of being turned into a literal bloody pulp.

Yea as I said, I think I went a little too far making him more inquisitive then he should be. But I thought it would be a really cool idea to make the Space Marines and the Orks fight alongside one another.

Simply put, an Ork wouldn't be dissuaded from Gork and Mork. It's engrained in them, in their very DNA.

Actually there was fluff, from a long while back (2nd or pre second I think) that had a small group of orks worship the Emporer after hearing some tales from humies how he beat a path across the galaxy in order to unify all of humanity. Which to them sounded like a great Warboss unifying up the Boyz and growing big and powerful. They just simply thought of him as some great Warboss of 'Umanity.

The imperium accepting Orks their oldest xenos enemy HELL NO!

Only a very rare few xenos are allowed to live by the imperium and even then they must have some worth to humanity or be so benign that its just not worth wiping them out when there are wars elsewhere to fight.

Orks are unpredictable and just because they behave 1 day does not mean they will the following, if their boss dies he could get replaced with an Ork that loves fighting humies.

It just would not be worth the risk.

Accepted by the Imperium? Probably not. I did have a friend that converted an army of what he called Ultra-orks. Basically they were a waaagh that was obsessed with the Ultramarines. So much so that they would wear looted pieces of space marine armour or fashion their own armour to look like it and then paint it blue and sport Ultramarines heraldry. The warboss was converted up to be wearing a suit of poorly fitting terminator armour even.

Something like what you describe might be possible but like others have said, the Imperium would try to kill them.