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{{OrksPortal}}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]].^{{Fn|1}}

Its It is known that any system containing Orks will quickly gather a large number of Roks as they are ''"built"'' at a startling rate.

*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.^{{Fn|2-p63 }}*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.^{{Fn|2-p63}}*In 997 or 998.M41, shortly before the outbreak of the [[Third War for Armageddon]], [[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^{{Fn|3a}}. Most of the Army Group managed to escape the planet, but the majority of the planet's several billion civilians did not^{{Fn|3b}}.

*^{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Orks (4th Edition)]], p.18*^{{Endn|2}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=cat1290319&categoryId=1100007&aId=4300022 Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Xenos Fleets], pg. 63*³: [[Mercy Run (Short Story)]] by [[Steve Parker]]:**a{{Endn|3a}}: p. 17 (as re-printed in [[Hammer of the Emperor (Omnibus)]])**b{{Endn|3b}}: p. 16 (as re-printed in [[Hammer of the Emperor (Omnibus)]])