I know a little about Orks and their weird group psychic thing where painting their ships red to go fast really makes them faster, and their tech only works because they think it should. But then I guess Orks aren’t even in this game.
I get that it’s a violent, black-vs-grey universe. I think it’s the originator of the term grimdark? The emperor is some immortal Mr House asshole who’s worshipped as a god, which powers some of their tech and protects them from chaos via his psyker shit? And he’s kind of a fascist, but it’s that or bloody chaos?
Rogue traders seem like somewhere between a privateer and a baron, plundering tithes in their castle-ships and acting as an arm of the Imperium in backwater space?
There are more wizards than I expected. Not sure if these mechanicus dudes are pulling “Temples of Syrinx” thing, or they know how the tech works but not why so they worship it? Or if it’s actually machine spirits?
Anything super foundational that I’m missing?
That Ork stuff is a meme. Their tech works, it’s not powered by imagination.
Actually, the “powered by imagination” thing was canon circa third edition. There’s in game lore about baffled techpriests opening up ork guns to find no working parts inside. This is the problem with making any kind of absolute statement about 40K lore… Most things are usually correct at some point and the lore revises itself and overwrites itself so often that what is canon for any given interpretation of the 40K universe is really up to the writers of that interpretation.
I’ve heard this said many, many times, but I’ve yet to see an actual source on it.
I collected Orks in 3rd edition. I have the big black book, I have the codex, I was subscribed to White Dwarf. I don’t recall seeing anything like that at the time. I could be wrong, of course, but you’d have thought I’d have seen the source by now.
Are there orks in rogue trader? I’ve been waiting for all the dlcs before I replay it.
No idea, I was responding to their first paragraph.