Orcs in Space

In my origional D&D campaign, the Orcs where actually a force of reason and
enlightenment in the universes, who began to create debased geneticlly
modified versions as "grunts" in a civil war. Unofrtunately, the Orc grunts
where extreamly suited most enviroments (tough, resilient, quick breading,
ruthless and relentless) and soon the "Imperial" and "Republican" Orcs found
that they had let armageddon out of the bottle, quickly joined forces against
their old servents and where almost oblitterated from the universes.

In my D&D universe, this explained why the orcs where common throughout the
universes, and what role they played in it (unfetted war machines looking for
a war. It was what they where geneticly created for). It also took the p*ss
out of the other elder race cliche's "you mean that the Orcs are the
ancients?!?!?!!!!"

Darryl