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I'm writing my own fluff for my ork mercs (freebooters) and I'm wondering how they travel around joining fights? I know they can have their own ship, space rocks or stolen ships but this group is supposed to be small and elte outcasts of ork society so anything like a space hulk would be way too large. I also don't want a pirate themed transport as my guys are mainly orks for hire not looters. Would a weirdboy, for example, be able to just zap them all about to different places in the galaxy at random?
   
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Short answer? Through sheer belligerence.

Weird Boyz can open warp portals, but rarely seem capable of properly guiding the vessel, whatever it may be.

I don't think it's 'background legit' to have interplanetary Weirdboy tellyport - but that's not saying much.

   
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Last I saw they used the warp like anyone else.

Using Space Hulks for the current occupants like Genestealers as it provides combat during transport, it also lends the fact that sometimes they don't leave the Gellar field on... at least not competly. Once again this leads to combat onboard the ship which weeds out weaker orks and provides "fun" and combat for the rest.


As for where they end up, they don't have navigators so they kinda just hit the button and "hope" they end up where a good fight is.

I can only imagine the reason they end up where they want to go is due to their gestalt psychic field as if enough orks really REALLY want to go to X place then it might push the ship through the warp a slight bit to the destination they want.

After all, orks gather together all the time via warp travel, but it never mentions how they get there all in the same place if they just press a button and hurtle through the warp to who knows where, but if they don't have a destination in mind, for example that Tyranid Vs Ork fight I can't recall the name of off hand, the warp might edge them toward a fight they would want, but due to the randomness of warp travel the Orks normal psychic field might only nudge the boat as opposed to direct it.

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They repurpose anything warp-capable, from ships to space hulks. They don't really have their "own" method of space travel per se (Kroozers are usually made out of a different ship, and I'm not sure Roks are warp-capable).

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A small group of Orks could be traveling in small space craft if it has a crafty enough Big Meks (either looted enemy vessels or more likely a ship built out of scrap).
But most likely they will be hitching rides with a WAAAGH, because that provides the biggest opportunity for fighting.

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Orks have ships of sizes and types similar to Imperial ships (usually since a lot of them are salvaged Imperial craft!). Its entirely possible for a warband to have a ship that only has a crew of several dozen orks. In Battlefleet Gothic they had all sorts of frigates and escorts.



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Weird-boys act as the Ork equivalent of navigators. Their jumps are relatively random, but they seem to be able to hone in on areas where "der's gud fightin!"

As for ships, ork's both steal and loot other races ships as well as build their own. Ultimately, they use the same technology as the Imperium. Warp Drives to travel through the warp from point A to B.

Many Ork ships forgo any Geller fields. Daemon's boarding your ship is just fun and games from the Ork point of view.

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Nazdreg's Meks have managed to get Tellyportas working over massive distances but I don't if they can go interstellar.

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with glee through the warp, plenty of warp gits to fight
   
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In shooting games there is something known as 'Spray and Pray'. With enough Whaags starting some one will show up sooner or later.

   
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My Ork lore is kinda werid and crazy (even a little breaking the 40k universe but I don't care). My warboss has a Vox built into his head and he broadcasts and stamps flyers all over the galaxy. It's basically a crudely drawn picture of his warband with the message:
Tin'eds messin' wif yer loot? Uumies bombin' yer 'owse? Buggiss eatin' yer grub? Kalls Skumdreg an da Dregboyz! Will scrap anyone fer eenytin! Promiz meeb a gud scrap an me'll be der! Service charge o' a thousand fangs or big shiny mek. Weeb kata ter da most desperate in da galaxy!
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I suppose it doesn't matter if it works or not... Skumdreg and his boyz believe it will work so it just does.... also they believe their hand writing is fancy!

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I imagine orks turning off there kind of gellar fields when they get bored :/
   
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When a Waaaaagh! is rolling orks within a huge radiI many light yes away are attracted to the Waaagh! like a beacon. Each Waaaaagh being it's own proportional astronomicon beacon. It's otherwise random jumping and startan fights wherever they emerge.

Edit add: it should be mentioned that orks have been a galactic travelling race for as long as the Elder, both being creations for a galactic wide war.

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Every race in 40k except for tyranids (for obvious reasons) and rakgol (because they're somehow less intelligent than orks) use warp travel mainly because of how useful it is. Probably, the old ones gave the krork the know how because how were they going to get to the necrons?
   
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Don't they use small comets and space rocks as drop pods? Maybe I'm bastardizing the lore but I'm pretty sure they hollow out astroids and use them as space stations as well.

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You might be thinking of Rocs that Ghazzy used. Huge hollowed asteroids brimming with weapons, forcefields, reverse traktors and inside are massive tellyporta arrays.

Ghazzy used them for planetary invasions. They are towed behind space hulks and aimed at the planet. As they plummet to the surface the tractor beams somewhat slows them down but they still hit with massive force. Inside the tellyportas are so massive they keep pumping out millions of orks all the way up to gargants from the hulks in orbit. From the ground it seems like massive clown cars with far too many millions pouring out.
   
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 kastelen wrote:
Every race in 40k except for tyranids (for obvious reasons) and rakgol (because they're somehow less intelligent than orks) use warp travel mainly because of how useful it is. Probably, the old ones gave the krork the know how because how were they going to get to the necrons?


Not true. Eldar and Necrons do not use Warp drives.

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Eldar do use warp travel of a fashion. The webway is a gigantic galaxy-scale warp travel device that skirts the skien between the two dimensions.

You're right about Necrons though...

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 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Eldar do use warp travel of a fashion. The webway is a gigantic galaxy-scale warp travel device that skirts the skien between the two dimensions.

You're right about Necrons though...


Actually, no. That's not what the Webway is.

The Webway is a pocket dimension between real space and the Warp. It's not a device, its a place that at certain points intersects with realspace(webway portals). And you can travel down the various tunnels in the webway to travel between point A and B. However because the Webway is laid out like a maze, you need to know the specific paths otherwise you'll get lost. Calling it a pocket dimension is also somewhat misleading as to it's sheer size. There are entire solar systems in there, and you can fit Craftworlds in the larger corridors.

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Is it not a device? It was created by the Old Ones. That qualifies it as a device to me.

It also allows travel via another dimension, which is the fundament of what warp travel is. The actual nitty gritty functionality of it is unknown, other than it lies in the skein between warpspace and the materium.

Personally, given that pretty much everything the Old Ones did is Warp-related, I'm confident in calling the webway a warp-travel device.

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 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Is it not a device? It was created by the Old Ones. That qualifies it as a device to me.

It also allows travel via another dimension, which is the fundament of what warp travel is. The actual nitty gritty functionality of it is unknown, other than it lies in the skein between warpspace and the materium.

Personally, given that pretty much everything the Old Ones did is Warp-related, I'm confident in calling the webway a warp-travel device.


So you consider Orks and Eldar devices as well? They were created by the Old Ones too.

The Webway isn't a thing, its a place. A place that is distinct from the Warp and Real Space.

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A couple of things; first:
The Old Ones did not create the webway; they created the warpgate system that allowed point-to-point travel between paired gates á la Stargate. This is also the system that broke and caused all the trouble on the Warhammer World. The last surviving remnant of the system is the Cursus of Alganar on Tallarn.
The Eldar took the warpgate system and combined it with their wraithbone material to make permanent, interconnected “tunnels” which, while slightly slower to traverse due to containing real distance between real space doors, were vastly more flexible and less prone to failure.

Second:
The Eldar do have and use warp drives, just extremely rarely and only when no other option is available. The reasons for this should be fairly obvious. Of course in the days before the Fall and even before the War in Heaven, the ancient Eldar used them far more extensively, though after they perfected the Webway, I expect it mostly got used to scout new locations for webway gates.

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 Grey Templar wrote:
 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Is it not a device? It was created by the Old Ones. That qualifies it as a device to me.

It also allows travel via another dimension, which is the fundament of what warp travel is. The actual nitty gritty functionality of it is unknown, other than it lies in the skein between warpspace and the materium.

Personally, given that pretty much everything the Old Ones did is Warp-related, I'm confident in calling the webway a warp-travel device.


So you consider Orks and Eldar devices as well? They were created by the Old Ones too.

The Webway isn't a thing, its a place. A place that is distinct from the Warp and Real Space.


Yep, i do. A device is somethig that is created for a purpose. The eldar and orks are biological devices created for warfare against the C'Tan and Necrons.

The webway is a device created to enable warp travel along the skein of warpspace. It is also a dimension. The two aren't mutually exclusive

 Mr_Rose wrote:
A couple of things; first:
The Old Ones did not create the webway; they created the warpgate system that allowed point-to-point travel between paired gates á la Stargate. This is also the system that broke and caused all the trouble on the Warhammer World. The last surviving remnant of the system is the Cursus of Alganar on Tallarn.
The Eldar took the warpgate system and combined it with their wraithbone material to make permanent, interconnected “tunnels” which, while slightly slower to traverse due to containing real distance between real space doors, were vastly more flexible and less prone to failure.


Source?

Would be interesting if true, but it's the first I've heard of the eldar actually creating the webway not the old ones, and of the old ones actually using stable warp gates that aren't the webway.

Not saying it's wrong, just never come across it (other than the fluff for the Fantasy universe which has been soft-retconned to being not as connected as it once was).

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You have a very odd definition of device which doesn't exist in the English language.

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Device: A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

The eldar, orks and the webway are things made or adapted for a specific purpose. They aren't mechanical or electronic as we understand them, but the definition doesn't require that. And besides, when you're as advanced as the Old Ones biology is simply another form of mechanism and electronics (chemical mechanisms and electronic nerve signals).

Source: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=device+definition&oq=device&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j69i59j0j5.2629j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

I will say that the matter of the webway being classed as warp travel or not is up for debate. Personally i believe it is, but i can certainly see how something different could be true as well

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You're really stretching it there, and didn't even quote an actual dictionary.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/device

Definition of device
1 :something devised or contrived: such as
a (1) :plan, procedure, technique, a marketing device, mnemonic devices
(2) :a scheme to deceive :stratagem, trick
b :something fanciful, elaborate, or intricate in design
c :something (such as a figure of speech) in a literary work designed to achieve a particular artistic effect, irony and other literary devices, a plot device
d archaic :masque, spectacle
e :a conventional stage practice or means (such as a stage whisper) used to achieve a particular dramatic effect
f :a piece of equipment or a mechanism designed to serve a special purpose or perform a special function. smartphones and other electronic devices. a hidden recording device

The only real definition for the purpose is F. And it really does not allow for a living creature to be a device. It has to be an inanimate object.

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 Ynneadwraith wrote:

The webway is a device created to enable warp travel along the skein of warpspace. It is also a dimension. The two aren't mutually exclusive


IIRC in " The Path of Heaven" it's told that Webway is built in Deep Warp - while common Warp is but a shallow waters above it.

Moment Scars entered Emperors' portal:

"Beyond it was the stuff of the underverse, the warp space that Veil had spoken of – the stratum profundis, the Seethe, the Deep Warp."


As TS sees:

It took a moment for him to realise the truth – the place they had entered was shielded from the greater mass of the Seethe. Vast walls of psychic matter held the tides back, enclosing the entire fleet in a barrier of swimming sorcery. They were hurtling along titanic tunnels, bored down into the foundations of the aether, burrowing like the tracks of insects under the very feet of creation.
...
He saw branches upon branches, breaking into a web of staggering complexity. The more he roved, the more colossal it became, a galaxy-spanning network of channels and thoroughfares, each one linked and switch-backed and threaded under and tangled with a hundred others. No human mind could have conceived of such a thing, far less built it.
There was no Astronomican in that place, just an endless, dizzying labyrinth of tunnels winding through the dark, each suffused with sorcery greater and older than he had ever encountered
...
He felt the faint presence of minds pressing against his, as alien as any minds he had ever sensed. They were bitter, those minds, like long-deposed kings bereft of their armies, watching intruders rampage across lands they had once been able to defend. He felt mordant anger, but also empty impotence. They were ghosts, mere afterglows of elder powers, lingering like curls of smoke over embers.

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 Grey Templar wrote:
You're really stretching it there, and didn't even quote an actual dictionary.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/device

Definition of device
1 :something devised or contrived: such as
a (1) :plan, procedure, technique, a marketing device, mnemonic devices
(2) :a scheme to deceive :stratagem, trick
b :something fanciful, elaborate, or intricate in design
c :something (such as a figure of speech) in a literary work designed to achieve a particular artistic effect, irony and other literary devices, a plot device
d archaic :masque, spectacle
e :a conventional stage practice or means (such as a stage whisper) used to achieve a particular dramatic effect
f :a piece of equipment or a mechanism designed to serve a special purpose or perform a special function. smartphones and other electronic devices. a hidden recording device

The only real definition for the purpose is F. And it really does not allow for a living creature to be a device. It has to be an inanimate object.


Not to stray massively off topic, but where in definition f does it state said device cannot be biological?

Where does it state that it has to be inanimate?

Where does it even state that it needs to be unintelligent?

Nowhere. Those are simply assumptions we make hecause that's the current basis of what our technology is like?

The only prerequisite for something being a device is that it is a mechanism designed to perform a specific purpose. The nature of said mechanism isn't restricted at all, other than it being a mechanism (which includes biological mechanisms, and even intelligent ones).

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