Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7232811-20130620224607/@comment-6078851-20130621034956

i have to agree with most of what you say sindri and one of the things i've always loved about 40k is the complete lack of 'good guys'. the imperium is generally seen as the good guys simply because we are human and so we see the galaxy from the imperium's (human) standpoint.

i will point out though that the hive mind is sentient, very sentient. the tyranid codex is explicit in that regard, but that sentience is so vastly different from the galaxy's native sentience that the hive mind doesn't even register that there is even sentience in this galaxy, and so it simply continues to evolve without any ill-will (that we know of) and thus isn't evil.

dark eldar are soooo totally evil, no argument.

i would suggest that orks are possibly the greatest of civilisations in the galaxy, illustrated by this codex extract -

"the orks are the pinnacle of ceation. 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, eldar philosopher.

while orks may be considered one of the biggest threats the bottom line is that they are not evil, in any way, they just want to have fun. unfortunately for most species that fun is terminal, but as you point out orks are programmed that way and i would say they're the least 'bad' of the 'bad guys'.