The Krork

## Known Relations

### Allies

Empire of Ashes (Ancient Allies), Krork Protectorates (Protectorates), Grand Conclave (Founding Member)

### Enemies

Orks (Religious War), C'Tan (The War Never Ended), Necrons(Old Foes), Galactic Threats (Duty Above All)

Founded shortly after the Birth of Ynnead by an ancient army rescued from the collection of Trazyn the Infinite through Eldar effort, The Krork are by far the most powerful of the Sane Polities of the Galaxy. Unfortunately, their return had caught the attention of the Ork gods, and their displeasure at the Krork raising their Boyz to be properly civilized caused The Green Awakening.

Ever since being freed the Krork have been slowly carving out a massive empire in Ultima Segmentum. The worlds that the Krork hold are heavily fortified and devoted entirely to war, whether it is growing and training new Krork or supplying and equipping the Krork Warhosts. Those worlds not controlled by the Krork are controlled by either humans or xenos living in Krork Protectorates, where the Krork allow other races to keep their worlds in exchange for some form of support and never interfering with the Krork in any way.

The Krork themselves are divided into three castes, the Workers (or Grots) who are the main industrial class, the Nameless, who make up the vast majority of the militaries numbers, and the Krork themselves. The Nameless are recently grown Krork who have had a level of tactics and discipline beaten into their skulls but are in many ways similar to the Orks the rest of the galaxy is familiar with. This is a terrifying prospect by itself as the nameless are equipped with heavy, high quality carapace armour and powerful weapons, which they have the discipline to use properly when a Krorkish officer is nearby. As a Nameless gets more experienced and larger, it will often show a level of intelligence or interest enough to attract the attention of the Krorkish officers, at which point it will be given a name and moved into one of the Houseless formations. These Houseless are generally around the size of what one would consider to be the larger Scarboyz and the smaller Nobs. The Houseless formations are units with a far higher proportion of Krork then normal, mostly around one in twelve, from which the older, more intelligent recently named Houseless are selected as sons by the Krork. When a Houseless is selected as a son, he is adopted into the house of his father, who will then spend the next decade training him in the way of the Krork using a mixture of psychic techniques and advanced technological educational tools.

The Krork themselves are the true heart of the civilisation despite only making up a twelfth of the population. The Krork are all highly educated about war, and in many cases other fields of life. In battle, each Krork, who is at least the size of an Ork Nob, wears highly sophisticated power armour and wields weapons of terrifying power and variety. However, each Krork has their own speciality, including the genetic paths of the Engineer, the Doctor, the Overseer and the Warlock as well as several other paths.

Under the leadership of Grand Marshal Garzorane, a hero of the War in the Heavens, the Krork lead their people into war, and to them everything is war, for a single mandate, to protect the races of the galaxy. They are willing to fight any foe and commit any atrocity needed to fulfill this duty. In this they work with their allies, the Eldar who freed them from Solemnace, where they had been part of Trazyn the Infinite's collection. They have also recruited a large number of Jokaero, who are responsible for their most advanced weapons as they always have been.

They are both one of the larger unified forces in the galaxy, with tens of thousands of worlds and a population of something like a quadrillion, and one of the most advanced, using brutally powerful psychic powers in conjunction with technology that only the Necrons and Eldar can hope to match.
The Krork currently control around five hundred sectors in the Northeast of Ultima, and have developed one of the galaxies most powerful military-industrial complexes in them. At any given time, tens of trillions of Krork and hundreds of trillions of Nameless are engaged in battle, while over a quadrillion Workers labor to build their wargear. In recent decades Krork military has been augmented by the first Attack Moons, giving them both incredibly powerful Planetary-Class warships and access to Sub-Space transportation, a powerful force multiplier by itself. War Worlds, even larger and more powerful warships capable of defeating dozens of Attack Moons at once, are yet to be deployed, but are stated to be under construction.

The Krork territory is fully enclosed by the Eternal Conflagration, a thousand sector strong Level 4 Orkish domain. After the losses sustained attacking the Grand Ritual, the Krork have been forced to stop their gradual expansion and focus on protecting their territory from the Eternal Conflagration, although they are still slowly driving it back despite the constant Ork reinforcements arriving from all over the galaxy. Within the Krork territory lie the Krork Protectorates, low-resource worlds given to races and civilizations under the protection of the Krork. Currently they take up around fifty sectors and are composed of species at all levels of development down to stone age.

As of the Third Grand Conclave, the Krork remain the most powerful Sane polity in Segmentum Ultima, and in the galaxy as a whole. The Krork currently control around eight hundred sectors in the Northeast of Ultima, and have been pushing back the Eternal Conflagration at a slowly increasing rate in the largest and most bloody war currently underway in the galaxy. It is estimated that hundreds of trillions or Orkiods die every year in the Eternal Conflagration, as several quadrillion Workers supply their war effort. Due to the prevalence of Attack Moons among the Krork fleets they have been able to launch deep attacks at what industry the Orks build up with ease, and have so far destroyed all Orkish attempts to build a planetary before it could be completed. Soon the Attack Mons will be joined by a steady stream of War Worlds, with the Krork having set up a series production line that has just completed its second War World and is expected to finish the next within a decade, and only accelerate from there. Short of a major setback the Krork expect to be able to start intervening in wars across the galaxy within fifty years and break the Eternal Conflagration within a century. The Krork Protectorates have now spread over eighty sectors in total, and some of them have started to offer their aid both military and material to various allies thanks to the help of the Eldar.

As of the beginning of The Last WAAAAAGH!!!, the Krork had around nine hundred sectors, about a third of which was left by the time Gork and Mork were killed. This included all of their Heartlands and 30% of their Inner Regions. Since then, the Krork have finally been free to expand after the centuries of being enclosed. Over a thousand former Ork Sectors across the galaxy have been taken over, and ongoing expansion is fast. As of year 1655 after the Death of the Emperor, the Krork are conducting an offensive against the Deceiver's forces, and are expected to soon finish it and be free to redeploy onto the Dragon Front.