Ork Origins

> Los wrote:

> Actually regarding ORC technology, I thought the Orcs
essentially a slave
> race of creatures

The Orkoid genus consists currently of 3 types: Orks, the smaller Gretchin,
and the tiny Snotlings.

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away.... anyway, the Snotlings were the
original type, and were of high intelligence, but puny physically. Their
intelligence required ingestion of a symbiotic fungus.

They genetically engineered the other 2 species, the larger as a sort of
"Soldier Ant" (with a technician caste that fixed things by instinct, similar
to a Motie Watchmaker), and the Gretchen as general purpose labourers and
middlemen.

There was a civilisation that spanned the Galaxy.

Then some of the Soldier types discovered the fungus, liked the taste, and
within a week had rendered it extinct.

Instant collapse of Galaxy-wide civilisation.

The current situation is basically a feudalism, where the Armed Forces run
things. The Mekaniaks or Mekboys really don't understand what they're doing.
They're constantly "improving" gear, often rendering it