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A '''Rok''' is a form of spaceship used by the [[Ork]]s, basically a large hollowed out asteroid fitted with guns, engines, guns, targeting systems and some more guns. Roks are incapable of [[warp]] travel and are used to drift from one world to another within a [[system]].<sup>1</sup>
Its known that any system containing Orks will quickly gather a large number of Roks as they are ''"built"'' at a startling rate. Notable engagements against them include an encounter in the Kaloth system in 147.M41 when an [[Imperial]] cruiser force swept the region for pirates leading to the destruction of seven enemy escort class ships along with four Roks. In 148.M41, twenty one Roks were encountered by another expedition in the same system but were forced to disengage after the battlecruiser ''Stalwart Warrior'' suffered crippling damage in the battle that nearly led to it being overwhelmed by Ork boarding parties.<sup>2-p63</sup>
== Notable Examples ==
Notable engagements against Roks include:
*an encounter in the Kaloth system in 147.M41 when an [[Imperial]] [[cruiser]] force swept the region for pirates, leading to the destruction of seven enemy [[escort]] class ships, along with four Roks.<sup>2-p63</sup>
*In 148.M41, twenty-one Roks were encountered by another expedition in the same system but were forced to disengage after the [[battlecruiser]] ''Stalwart Warrior'' suffered crippling damage in the battle, that nearly led to it being overwhelmed by Ork boarding parties.<sup>2-p63</sup>
*In 997 or 998.M41, shortly before the outbreak of the [[Third War for Armageddon]], [[Ghazhkull Thraka]] sent seventeen Roks on a collision course with the Imperial World [[Palmeros]], forcing a hasty evacuation of the [[Imperial Guard]] Army Group Exolon<sup>3a</sup>. Most of the Army Group managed to escape the planet, but the majority of the planet's several billion civilians did not<sup>3b</sup>
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>: [[Codex: Orks (4th Edition)]], p.18
*<sup>2</sup>: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=cat1290319&categoryId=1100007&aId=4300022 Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Xenos Fleets]
*<sup>3</sup>: [[Mercy Run (Short Story) by [[Steve Parker]]
**a: p. 17 (as re-printed in [[Hammer of the Emperor (Omnibus)]]
**b: p. 16 (as re-printed in [[Hammer of the Emperor (Omnibus)]]
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