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Rok
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*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 Ghazghkull 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
