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'''Mekboyz''' (also known as 'Mekaniaks' or just 'Meks') are [[Ork]] [[Oddboyz]], and are the engineers who build all the gunz, vehicles, and other machinery used by the Orks. They are especially important to [[Speed Freeks]], as they maintain their prodigus amount of bikes and vehicles. Important Mekboyz are known as [[Big Meks]], who lead groups of lesser Mekboyz armed with all variety of kustom equipment and combi-weapons, sometimes even warbands or whole Waaaghs! armed with a better percentage of less than conventional orky weaponry.

Mekboyz are an interesting example of the Ork race because there ability abilities with machinery is are not a learned knowledge. It is less intelligence or skill, and more instinct, as their ruderelative wealth of technological know-how is actually genetically engineered into them, and is expressed in their trademark crude and ramshakle style of building is . Although incredible as it sounds, this knowledge at it's peak actually genetically bred into themsurpasses the Imperium's technology levels.

It should be noted that the bulk of their "technology" is so incredibly crude that its ability to function would apparently contravene not only common sense but the laws of physics as well; a given shoota is, more than likely, literally slapped together out of scrap metal, leaving it by rights incapable of firing. That it works at all is testament to the power of the Ork WaaaaghWaaagh!, as its it's peculiar psychic field allows them to bypass the physical impossibilities that would ordinarily break render their gear useless or broken, simply via belief. Within limits, if an Ork believes a particular gun is working and pulls the trigger, it will fire. Although this doesn't mean that anything will do, and Mekboys still create what conceptually might be relatively close to their intended weapon or wargear, the power of the Waaagh! gives the item that extra push (sometimes more like a roundhouse kick) it needs to operate "successfully". Mekboys are therefore critical to the maintenance of Ork technology not only physically, but psychically as well, as they can instill sufficient credibility in the Waaaagh! regarding a given device to get it actually working.