Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-90.211.181.229-20130907201722/@comment-3258762-20131204135533

.Talik wrote: Did you not listen? The entire idea of the orks is that they cannot unite! The more territory they control, the less they would be attacking others because they would eternally be having civil war! And its hardly like the humans are the only ones they would be attacking. I mean, the eldar or tau are'nt suddenly the focus of all galactic aggression. Why? because they dont control much territory to fight over. The REASON interex would do well is BECAUSE its smaller. I'm not certain you know how Ork WAAAGHS! work, Talik.

They would be spread out and not be as united, yes, but that defiantely does not mean they CANNOT unite, and they WILL unite. On one world, one ork is going to be big enough and, perhaps, smart enough, to beat his tribe into following him. Followed by the world. With so many orks united, they would start to tap into their subconcious knowledge of technology and build things to leave the planet with. As they set out, the psychic field generated by the WAAAGH attracts more Orks like the Tyranid Hive Mind attracts Splinter Fleets. Soon, they have a pretty big WAAAGH with lots of Orks working together, with some change in leadership probably occuring. Now we have two things that can happen:

Either someone stops them dead in their tracks, which is what the Imperium does all the time. People die, Orks die, they retreat and spread and grow and turn feral; All is well.

OR it keeps growing like a near limitless force, and without being stopped by any major forces (Forces a galaxy not united like the Imperium do not possess) they go on, plant their spores, kill, loot and plunder and suddenly they are at the doorstep of the Interex, insanely powerful due to no one being able to stop them.

Now what you're thinking is, of course "But the Imperium isn't the entire galaxy!" but the Imperium is about 70-80% of the galaxy, and anything that want to grow big will have to do so through the Imperium sooner or later. And here's what Callum was on to: In 40k, the races that are proven to do best are the ones with the greatest number of meat shields (Humans, Orks and Tyranids), but if we read the HH books (And I have read them all so far) there were barely any xenos or civilisations that had even remotely the size of the Trio's meat shields, and those who even used meat shields weren't particularly interrested in conquest, thus dooming them in the 40k universe.