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The '''{{PAGENAME}}Split-Grin Bad Moons''' are a powerful [[Ork]] sub-faction of the [[Bad Moons]] [[Clan]].{{Fn|1}}

For years the Split-Grin Bad Moons scraped out an existence on [[Eyrok]] skirmishing with theirrivals the [[Skullcrackers]]. Their [[Warboss]], [[Skagfing]], was content to lead his Boyz in the brawlwith the [[Goffs]] and make some teef in the process, trading with Freebooterz for shiny stuff.The big guns of the clan kept the Skullcrackers in check, and Skagfing liked to make jokesabout poor old [[Krugg]] the ‘Tyrant’ who couldn’t afford a good [[shoota]]. The Split-Grin tribemight not have been huge, but they had the best loot, and the biggest guns to keep other Orksfrom getting their hands on it.{{Fn|1}}

This all changed when [[Grukk]] met [[Mogrok]] and decided to take control of all Eyrok’s Orks.Skagfing had only recently heard about his rival’s death when Grukk and his lads smashedtheir way into the Bad Moons camp, the Goff Warlord sacrificing loads of Boyz as he chargedto in pin Skagfing down, stand on his chest, and messily rip his face from his skull. In a singlebloody blow, the Split-Grins were absorbed into the Skullcrackers and Grukk took control ofthe tribe. In Skagfing’s place a bunch of Nobs tried to bully their way to the top, but none ofthem could match the raw aggression and prodigious size of Grukk.{{Fn|1}}

Fragmented and leaderless, the Split-Grin tribe became inferior to the Skullcrackers. Grukkused the tribe for its massive guns and kustom weapons, draining their stockpiles to build uphis warband. The Split-Grin tribe also gave Grukk access to the Sanctus Sub-sector’sFreebooterz, giving the Ork Warboss a way off Eyrok and out into the void. Of course,Freebooterz’ tastes are just as extravagant as Bad Moons, and so as soon as Grukk’s warbandtook to the stars, the fortunes of the Split-Grins changed again.{{Fn|1}}

[[Gashrakk da Flash]] was once first mate to none other than [[Kaptin Badrukk]], the famous Orkpirate. According to rumour, even Badrukk had gotten sick of Gashrakk’s swaggeringpretension and so had forced him off his ship. Heading off on his own, Gashrakk had masseda small fleet of [[kroozers]] and was haunting the Sanctus Sub-sector when Grukk left Eyrok.Seeing an opportunity to increase his wealth, and to have a good fight too, Gashrakk‘happened’ to cross paths with the Goff Warboss and offered his services. It was completelyby chance that the Freebooter fell in with the Split-Grin Bad Moons, but as soon as he did theOrks knew they had met a leader they could profit under.{{Fn|1}}

Gashrakk was something of an anomaly among Orks; he was always clean, his kit polished toa high shine and his colourful armour and clothes bright and unstained. In fact, Gashrakk’sobsession with his wargear extended beyond his personal appearance and to his ships andweapons, each one buffed to a dull shine. Gashrakk would use mobs of grots to keep his gearin pristine condition, and as soon as his armour took a scratch or his boots lost their lustre agrot would be there to polish them up or, failing that, to hurry along with a replacement. TheFreebooter boasted that he had never used the same gun more than once – such was hiswealth that he would throw his shoota away after each fusillade, a grot gun-caddy rushingforward to offer up a fresh one.{{Fn|1}}

This mixture of arrogance and vanity were just what the Split-Grins wanted, and its Nobz andBoyz fell into line behind Gashrakk, dubbing him ‘da Flash’. He, in turn, made sure that noone could mistake the Split-Grin Bad Moons for any other mob of Orks, and that when theyturned up there could be no doubt they were the richest warband around. The Freebootersurrounded his tribe with Meks, keeping them plied with teef and scrap so he always had thebest kustom wargear. Gashrakk spread these choice items amongst his favoured Boyz,ensuring the Split-Grins always had the best weapons, wagons and armour, and the othertribes were only able to look on in envy.{{Fn|1}}

At this point, the Freebooter had the first sparks of an idea about how he might become therichest Warboss ever. By following Grukk’s Waaagh! into the biggest battles and relying onthe Split-Grins’ fearsome firepower, he could keep his tribe’s losses low, ensuring that anyloot ended up finding its way into the holds of his ships.{{Fn|1}}

Not long after Grukk started raiding the edges of the Sanctus Sub-sector, Gashrakk figuredout that as long as he avoided the big Warboss’ temper (no small feat) he could talk thesingle-minded Goff into giving his Split-Grin tribe the choicest enemies to fight and the bestbits of a world to attack. On the moons of Palos, while Grukk’s mobs cracked their way intothe domed cities, Gashrakk plundered the world’s diamond mines, allowing the tribe’s Meksto use the gems as lenses and ammo in kustom blastaz or big gunz, and the [[Painboyz]] to givethe richest Nobz new sets of ‘shiny [[teef]]’. On the prison planet of Night’s End, the Split-Grintribe made piles of teef running the pit fights, Gashrakk personally blasting one particularlytough prisoner to bits when it looked like he might upset the odds.{{Fn|1}}

More than once Gashrakk put Grukk’s loot in his own ships ‘for safe-keeping’ and waited forthe Warboss’ attention to be drawn to another fight instead. Mogrok would have challengedGashrakk for trying to use the Red Waaagh! for his own ends, if the Big Mek wasn’t doingprecisely the same thing himself. In fact, the effectiveness of the Split-Grin tribe’s kustomweaponry allowed Gashrakk to get Mogrok and his Mek followers to make several[[Gorkanaut]]s and [[Morkanaut]]s for the Split-Grins. The Freebooter even managed to lay claim toone of Mogrok’s Stompas, and the Split-Grins were soon accompanied in battle by an everexpandinghorde of smoke-belching walkers.{{Fn|1}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Orks (7th Edition)]] - — ''Split-Grin Bad Moons''