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What is the worst thing that has ever happened in the Warhammer 40K lore? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm very new to the Warhammer 40K universe. I found a group that plays role games and I wanted to join that I felt I needed to learn the lore first.

I've been binge-watching lore videos on Youtube and BTH im hooked, I can see how similar it is to franchises that came after and were inspired by it, but at the same time is like nothing I've seen before. I actually love that there is not such a thing as a "good ending".

I wanted to ask people who know more about this universe than me, what is the worst thing that has ever happened in the universe? The most tragic event? The most disturbing one? I really want to know and read about it.

I wanna read some books but seems like ebooks are not available on my country, on Kindle it seems like they were purged and on Kobo maybe I could by them with a VPN or something.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's a theory that Orks only evolve to meet the bare minimum technology level. Advanced to far in technology, Orks can't have a good krumpin. It's why Orks in the Old World and Age of Sigmar don't have insane technology even though Orks in all three universes are the same.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Something like this happened on the planet Urk where orks were fighting eachother for thousands of years but had no desire to ever leave until Ghazkull united them, but then they constructed spaceships with no problem. There's also a lot of feral orks in 40K universe while it shouldn't be the case since mek knowledge is genetic. So it indeed might be the safety switch made by the Old Ones to reduce the danger of Krorks. And both after Horus Heresy aftermatch seen a lot of galaxy unified under the Imperium and now when the overal danger level in galaxy intensified greatly the Ork activity also greatly risen which given birth to a Beast (M32) which was almost a Krork and now Ghazkull is on a good way to becoming one, so it might indeed be correct to say that the Orks are adapting to the level of danger.

The book "Da Gobbo rides again" provided some interesting lore parts about how greenskin specialisation works.