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==History==
The Orkoid races are believed to have been genetically engineered millenia ago.
Ork legend attributes their creation to the [[Brain Boyz]], a diminutive but extremely intelligent subspecies of Orkoid, who bred the Gretchin to be servants and the Orks to be warriors<sup>1p4</sup>. The possibility was established in later materials that the Ork races may have in fact been created by the [[Old Ones]], who are described as creating the ''Krork'' as part of a last-ditch attempt to fight off their enemies such as the [[Necrons]] and [[Enslavers]]. The Orks have had a presence in the Galaxy since that time, and are known to have first battled mankind long before the foundation of the [[Imperium]], tens of thousands of years ago during the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. Humanity and the Orks have fought innumerable conflicts over this time and are unlikely to ever stop.<sup>8</sup>In 544.[[M32]], an Ork Warlord known simply as [[The Beast]] succeeded in uniting much of the Ork race and nearly conquered the entire Galaxy. Leading the largest [[Waaagh!]] ever seen, in the end he was stopped in an apocalyptic struggle with the [[Imperium]].{{Fn|9-pg.169}}
Orks were genetically engineered to be tough, muscular, aggressive and primitive-minded. Their technology is maintained by a caste of [[Oddboyz]] who have genetic dispositions to do well at specific forms of task. Indeed, the Orks' creators were apparently able to encode information on how to build and maintain technology in the genetic strands of Orks; thus [[Mekboy]]z (for example) require very little training in their function, since they understand mechanical principles at an instinctive level.

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