Undred-Undred Teef

“There are beasts among the stars, beasts that would crush our lives, make ash of our worlds and break all that we hold sacred. The beasts wait in the dark and shunned reaches like the things glimpsed in the forests of old, things that looked out with red, shining eyes and hearts filled with the joy of ruin.”
–from Remarks on the Nature on the Unknown by Estivan Mauritin, advisor to Rogue Trader Hiram Sult
The Undred-Undred Teef is a tract of systems at the heart
of the Accursed Demesne that is a nest and breeding ground
for Orks. Only a few of the boldest---or most foolhardy---of
explorers have ventured into this place, but those who have
speak of worlds held in an embrace of filth and wreckage,
ringed with clouds of debris and wreckage from which Ork
ships arise like flies, their brutal prows bristling with weapons
and decked in grinning-skull war paint. Beneath their mantles
of scrap and crude defenses are worlds poisoned by the spoils
of Ork industry and on which the Orks constantly slaughter
one another over looted debris, competing to construct
weapons, slab-sided forts, and massive machine-effigies. From
these worlds the Orks have, in the past, sallied in search of
booty and raw materials for their growing armies.
The warring Orks of the Undred-Undred Teef are split
into gangs, warbands, and clans that are lead by ever more
powerful individual Ork Bosses. Orks constantly strive to
overcome and dominate their fellows, with the most successful
and powerful Bosses growing in size to mirror their status.
Undred Undred Teef is unusual amongst Ork-held
systems---it is home to many more numbers of rich, arrogant
Orks known as Flash Gitz than normal. Some suggest this
may be the Ork’s evolutionary response to the opportunities
of the Koronus Expanse, though no one knows for sure. Flash
Gitz are infamous for their love of treasure and are always
interested in opportunities to raid and pillage. Flash Gitz
are not above treachery, murder, or other shifty strategies to
accumulate wealth and more powerful wargear. Some Flash
Gitz will even hire out to other xenos races. Many of these
Orks take up the life of a Freebooter to get their hands on
even more ill-gotten gains. Thus, Undred Undred Teef is home
to hordes of Freebooterz, and these piratical Orks dominate
the greenskin hordes of this region.
Perhaps fittingly in a place where Ork pirates
are the dominant variety of greenskin, Undred-Undred Teef has little in the way of a
permanent population. Freebooterz travel to and from Undred-Undred Teef with regularity, with
Kaptins and Oddboyz using their time amongst other Orks
to trade and repair, while the common hordes clash on
the worlds below in pointless battle solely for the sake of
fighting. The workshops and mines and other lingering traces
of civilization change hands frequently, often abandoned
when an Ork seeks to see the stars again, to be taken over by
another some weeks or months later.
Hulking Kaptins emerge from time to time, cunning beasts
who lead their followers forth from Undred-Undred Teef
across the Koronus Expanse in search of new loot for the
clans. Mercifully these few powerful individuals have only
been able to command a fraction of the Orks of Undred-Undred Teef, but at the heart of this domain something is
growing in power.
Undred-Undred Teef consists of a dozen systems within the
Accursed Demesne. Four of these are reasonably well-known
to humanity through the recollections of Ork Freebooterz
hired by unscrupulous Rogue Traders, and survivors’ tales
of those who have passed nearby: barren Krakskull, smokewreathed
Snagruz, the broken moons of Stompgit, and at the center of Undred-Undred Teef is a world where
Orks have bred in greatest numbers and where the battle
between them is fiercer than on any other: the iron desolation of Tusk and its only moon, Slagnaz.
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