Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20140531013206/@comment-6078851-20140604155051

larvae are indeed a completely different form of life, which was kinda my point - orks are alien plant-life, genetically enginered by other alien life.

orks are not humanoid, not even close. they're bipedal but that's where the similarities end (if anything humans would be more orkoid than orks being humanoid as orks pre-date humans by millions of years). the old ones, of whom nothing about their biology is known, had a knowledge of genetic engineering that surpasses anything we can fathom (and i'm referring to us now, and us in the 41st millenium). for example they created a form of life that is different from everything else, orks (or krork), sentient life which grow from fungus.

your point about longer gestations is perfectly valid for earthly animal life, however orks are neither earthly nor animal, they're alien (built by other aliens) and they're fungal. diffusion works just fine for plants and fungai, and there's very few things that can match their rate of nutrient diffusion (i imagine that's one of the reasons why the old ones thought to play around with fungus). plus orks don't actually have a long gestation, it's only a few weeks as far as i know (i might be wrong about their gestation time as i can't remember where i got that info).

ammo pouch. *nudge*