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Post by CELS on Jan 9, 2004 19:59:09 GMT -5
If someone were to give a short synopsis of the 'fluff' from GorkaMorka, I'm sure it would be invaluable to whomever will be working with Orks in this project.
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Post by malika on Jan 11, 2004 6:43:04 GMT -5
I dont have the book, maybe some one on portent? fluff bible doesnt have it either
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Post by Sojourner on Jan 11, 2004 6:59:59 GMT -5
Ork hulk crashes into the planet Angelis. Is actually a Necron Tombworld with a few human explorators there.
Hulk falls apart and lots of Orks die. Orks start to rebuild hulk, until "one smart lad sez, dis looks like da biggest fattest Ork eva. And e's right, and every ork kno's dat da biggest orks ever are dem great big fat ork gods, Gork an' Mork"
So, the Orks go to war with each other over whether the new Hulk looks like Gork or Mork. The hulk gets trashed again, lots more orks die. Now those that are left realise that they're never going to get into Da Waaagh without a finished hulk so, they decide to call the new new Hulk Gork AND Mork just to be on the safe side - hence Gorkamorka.
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Post by Kage2020 on Jan 11, 2004 8:21:32 GMT -5
Wow... one post that summarises everything that I dislike about the orks in 40k. Kage
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Post by CELS on Jan 11, 2004 9:43:46 GMT -5
LoL! This is what happens when you push the comical side too far.
I was looking for the fluff on the society of GorkaMorka though, and not so much history. As in how it is organised? Is it described as total anarchy, or what? Are the orks just getting drunk and fighting whilst the gretchin are in charge of farming and doing the actual work?
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Post by Sojourner on Jan 11, 2004 12:50:19 GMT -5
The orks form themselves into mobs, each owning some rickety vehicles, and go and collect bits of hulk to sell to the Meks at Mektown. That's the entirety of the social structure.
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Post by CELS on Jan 11, 2004 13:05:16 GMT -5
Are you kidding? Didn't GW write anything else?
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Post by Minister on Jan 11, 2004 13:32:02 GMT -5
The primary political body on GorkaMorka is the Meks, who due to the unusual nature of the world have asumed the unusual tripple role of inventer/manufacturers; priests and political leaders, superceding the traditional "One Ork, One Vote. You want to try and take the One Vote away from him, you're welcome to try" method. The mob structure predominates outside of Mektown (the planet's greatest and only city), where conflict is inevitable and continuous.
There also exists the Gretchen Revoolutionary Kommittee (or Committee), but they're the equivelant of a lunatic fringe group and demand equality for gretchen.
Next time I have access to a scanner, I'll blip some of it in.
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Post by malika on Jan 14, 2004 8:56:22 GMT -5
would be sweet to have this orkworld which was like an entire fortress city, kinda like uhm...the orks saw a hiveworld and tried to imitate it, the GW orks seem to immitate "da oomies"
are these orks in the anargo sector going to be related to one of da clanz? or are they just the standard normal non clan like orks?
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Post by Minister on Jan 14, 2004 11:56:28 GMT -5
It would seem reasonable to have all the clans present, with some predominating in difernt areas. From the Warlord's nature, I'd say he'd have to be Bad Moon or Deathskull, though, and therefore one of these would dominate.
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Post by malika on Jan 14, 2004 12:48:47 GMT -5
ah my two favorite clans...well a bad moon clan warlord could come up with the idea to immitate da oomies by creating an ork "HIIIIIFF PLANIT"
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Post by CELS on Jan 14, 2004 21:15:59 GMT -5
Imitating is something that is pretty unique to the Blood Axe clan, IIRC, and something that is often frowned upon by the other clans. Personally, I'd like to see a Deathskull Warlord, because there are already major Bad Moon and Goff warlords, and because the Deathskulls are the coolest!
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Post by malika on Jan 15, 2004 5:29:28 GMT -5
looting ;D
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Post by Sojourner on Jan 15, 2004 9:37:26 GMT -5
What's a Hiff?
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Post by Kage2020 on Jan 15, 2004 11:04:11 GMT -5
I would suggest that the most obvious thing is that it is once again the dubious dialogue of orks giving voice to 'hive'... Kage
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