Do orks really want to conquer the galaxy?

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Grey Templar wrote:
G00fySmiley wrote:
Spartan 117 wrote:
Orks do not want to conquer the whole galaxy in my opinion. In the lore, they are looking for a good fight because they enjoy it. If they completely conquer the galaxy, they will not have anything to fight and will probably only fight amongst themselves.

The best example of this in the lore is the relationship between Ghaz and Yarrick. Gaz respects Yarrick for his ability to put up a good fight and mentioned humans like him are hard to come by.

my favorite part of the Yarrick fights is that the ork believe he is so dangerous actually affecting a human and so he does manage to get stronger. they fear his bionic eye enough to make it a deadly laser weapon. I mean that not to diminish yarrick, but more as a thought experiment on when the orks want a strong enemy they create one... perhaps this is the Emperor of mankind's ultimate origin? ors wanted a big golden enemy?

Pretty sure Yarrick had a laser eye prior to orks thinking it was super deadly. Laser bionic eyes are actually a fairly common combat implant, enough that its listed as a potential bionic for guardsmen in the FFG rpg books. The ork's belief has probably made his especially potent of course, but they didn't spontaneously cause his normal bionic eye to grow a weaponized laser.

I think that Yarrick learned that the orks believed he could kill with just a glare, and so had the laser eye bionic installed to further impress his legendary status and make them fearful of him.