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-How long does it take for spore to become a full grow Ork boy?

-And after his "birth" what he do first? Do he get some nearby materials, make underpants, pants, socks, shoes, and then weapon. Or just a weapon and goes killing?

-And do Ork "advance" from boy to Nob or Nob are created like ordinary Boys?

P.S. In advance - this is not Ork hate thread. Just saying... ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174484.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174484.page GMT Ork spores questions.
Orks come out of their spore-pods fully grown. There are no ork "children". They immediately pick up a weapon and look for something to kill. Pants and such come later, if their pack of Orks they are around are suitably advanced to have recognized the need or desire for clothes and armor.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174511.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174511.page GMT Ork spores questions. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174520.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174520.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174622.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174622.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174631.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174631.page GMT Ork spores questions. When they do emerge, the yoofs instinctively find their way to the nearest Ork settlement (as I recall, tracking by way of the airborne spores). If they're a long ways out, they'd fashion spears or clubs in order to hunt food during the journey. Clothing, from what I've seen, is pretty much just decorative and used to show status (hence why grots are usually just seen wearing loincloths)
All orks are capable of becoming nobz (or eventually warbosses), if they're aggressive enough and manage to not get themselves killed in the process

*edit* and no, snotlings are not young grots, they are a different subspecies]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174658.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3174658.page GMT Ork spores questions. 40k races that have been discussed and researched. It would be so convenient to have all that information in one place. I just find the life styles and nature of the many different warhammer races so intriguing.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3176056.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3176056.page GMT Ork spores questions. 40k races.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3176183.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3176183.page GMT Ork spores questions.
Brother Coa wrote:-And after his "birth" what he do first? Do he get some nearby materials, make underpants, pants, socks, shoes, and then weapon. Or just a weapon and goes killing?
Depends on if he's born a normal Boy or an Oddboy.

Although an Ork CAN change their profession after a fashion (for example, being inspired to become a kommando later in life), generally speaking the more specialized oddboyz such as Mekboyz and Painboyz are born that way. Most Orks never get such an urge, but then again, most Ork boyz aren't special.

Hm. Almost sounds like human sexuality...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3176187.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3176187.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178395.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178395.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178956.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178956.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178966.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178966.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178984.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178984.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178986.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3178986.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions.
coolyo294 wrote:Orks don't have gender? This lovely lady begs to differ.


I have read somewhere that the female bloodbowl orc cheerleaders are not considered cannon, I dont remember where, so maybe im wrong.


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The Fantasy Orks are, basically, the Tolkein idea of an Ork, a nasty thing that tries to kill heroes and other good guys. Otherwise, they're as "normal" as humans, elves and other races are in the Old World.

The Orks of 40K are an intelligent fungus/animal hybrid alien thing, and thus have no gender or reproductive organs. The argument could be made that the entire Ork is a reproductive organ... but I'm not going to go there.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179014.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179014.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179029.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179029.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. 40k fluff, but their reproductive habits and exact relation to other greenskins has never been explicitly stated like it is in 40k. Greenskin females are never mentioned, and it seems likely that unlike in 40k, goblins can exist without orcs around and orcs without goblins. They typically live in separate tribes but join up together when on the warpath, though some orc tribes may have goblin "helpers" around and some goblin tribes ruled by particularly cunning bosses may have a few orcs around as hired muscle.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179072.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179072.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179103.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179103.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions.
romegamer wrote:so then orks do not have a gender? and therefore do not have sexual reproductive organs that they must cover with loinclothes? or am I wrong


Maybe they view their excretory organs as "private" parts.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179804.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179804.page GMT Ork spores questions. GW just doesn't want to have things running around pantsless?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179814.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179814.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions.
coolyo294 wrote:Orks don't have gender? This lovely lady begs to differ.
That monstrosity is an Orc, not an Ork.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179886.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179886.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions.
romegamer wrote:do orks occur often on imperial agricultural worlds? Being a fungus and all this would seem likely. or do they have precautions to prevent it?


Ork spores can't travel through the Warp, so they can only get from one planet to another on an traveling via spaceship/space hulk; they don't spontaneously show up in someone's cabbage field. The precautions consist of fighting off the rampaging greenskins.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179916.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179916.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179972.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3179972.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions.
Arturius wrote:
romegamer wrote:do orks occur often on imperial agricultural worlds? Being a fungus and all this would seem likely. or do they have precautions to prevent it?


Ork spores can't travel through the Warp, so they can only get from one planet to another on an traveling via spaceship/space hulk; they don't spontaneously show up in someone's cabbage field. The precautions consist of fighting off the rampaging greenskins.


But can't ork spores survive in space? I'm sure I've read that somewhere, it might be old fluff by now but it makes sense that a spore could wait untill it's in a possition best suited to it.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180185.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180185.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180238.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180238.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180242.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180242.page GMT Ork spores questions.
Lappie wrote:Ateroids and the like can work as a random dispersal agent.


If an ork is spooring into hard vacuum, and some spores happen to randomly be hit by an asteroid, it's possible the asteroid could take the spore somewhere in the galaxy. A bit vague even by orky standards, because it would probably be an effectivey infinite drift through empty nothingness.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180254.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180254.page GMT Ork spores questions.
That, and apparently they've travelled to other Galaxies. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180309.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180309.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180357.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3180357.page GMT Ork spores questions.
Psienesis wrote:Orks come out of their spore-pods fully grown. There are no ork "children". They immediately pick up a weapon and look for something to kill. Pants and such come later, if their pack of Orks they are around are suitably advanced to have recognized the need or desire for clothes and armor.


Not so, there is such a thing as an Ork "child." It's simply that orks grow up a hell of a lot faster than humans do, as is stated in the codex.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3183738.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3183738.page GMT Ork spores questions.
The only description I've seen, recently, of the Ork spawning process has pods tearing open and full-sized Boyz stumbling out.

In none of the descriptions of the Orks at war are we given descriptions of Ork villages that are anything but staging camps for the Waagh. Even in the RPG fluff, the worlds of the 'Undred-'Undred Teef are tides of violence and carnage as various Bosses and Freebooterz fight for dominance in the coming Waagh.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3183800.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3183800.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3183906.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3183906.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184047.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184047.page GMT Ork spores questions. developed, but not fully grown. Orks never stop growing. It's just, when they first pop out, they're a bit weedy and runty. Not as small as Gretchin, but much smaller than your average Boy. They fight each other, fight wild critters, maybe run off to Stormboy camp for a while- get some glory, win some fights, and start growin'. Then they're Boyz. They just don't have them in the games 'cause they tend to be more disciplined and less powerful/tough than Boyz- basically, if you want a Yoof, get a Guardsman.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184438.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184438.page GMT Ork spores questions.
By that I mean, outside of what passes for society amongst the Orks, these yoofs would be able to function and survive on their own?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184624.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184624.page GMT Ork spores questions.
Psienesis wrote:So... it's more a social distinction than an actual physiological maturity distinction?

By that I mean, outside of what passes for society amongst the Orks, these yoofs would be able to function and survive on their own?


They are basically the smallest, weakest Boyz, able to do everything their fellows can do, but not as good in a fight. Think of it as a human springing out at age 16. Not as big or strong or experienced as a full-grown man, but otherwise equally capable of surviving and reproducing.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184676.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184676.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184677.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184677.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184720.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184720.page GMT Ork spores questions.
At least the Imperium does. I'm not sure the Tau have quite figured out the Ork yet.

The Eldar have known the ins and outs of the Ork for millennia, and so have probably developed some sort of spray or dust or maybe a unique wavelength of light that eradicates Ork-spores.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184738.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3184738.page GMT Ork spores questions. 40k than the Eldar did in their prime.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3185885.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3185885.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3185908.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3185908.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3185960.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3185960.page GMT Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3186761.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3186761.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3240207.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/388802/3240207.page GMT Re:Ork spores questions.
Even in their prime, I don't think they could really control the Orks' numbers. Remember, the same race that created the Eldar created the Orks as well. Orks were far, FAR more successful of a design.


One of my favorite quotes concerning Orks, from the Eldar point of view:

"The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude."

- Uthan the Perverse, a controversial Eldar philosopher


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