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Brain Boyz

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==Overview==
Ork legend (such as it is) is generally legends, passed down by the [[Runtherd]]s. They speak ,{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|5}} tell of of a legendary caste "Lost Race" of Brainboyz, [[Snotling]]s which were smarter in "da old days" and "used ta boss us Orks around".{{Fn|5}} The exact truth is difficult to know as Orks do not keep written records, relying instead upon oral histories to remember their past.{{Fn|2}} It is the speculation of greenskins who created [[Imperial]] scholars that as the Orks themselves were not responsible for the development of today. This ancient race was extremely intelligentthe legendary lost [[Standard_Template_Construct#Ork|Ork Standard Cconstruct Templates]] as even their [[Mekboy]]z could not have understood it, {{Fn|3}}{{Fn|5}} and held dominion over that indeed there may have been an ancient Orkish caste upon its homeworld which initiated the [[Ork]] expansion into space{{Fn|5}} – the Ork castes. They were much smaller than their servants, so they bred [[Waaagh!]]s of today being the unexpected byproduct of the efforts of the Orks to be as strong and fierce as possible to protect them from predators and invadersBrain Boyz.{{Fn|24}}
It was believed that this group was Brainboyz were [[Greenskin]]s with the driving force behind same symbiotic algae in their civilisation and were responsible for developing their technology skin as well as directing all Orkish races{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|5}} – indeed it was these Brainboyz which gave the different other Orkish castesthis skin as they were their creators and progenitors. There is even some speculation that both {{Fn|5}} The Brainboyz, through potent genetic manipulation, grew these ever tougher, larger, and more butal [[OrksMutant]] s{{Fn|4}} to do thier work and fight in wars: first growing the slave caste of [[Gretchin]]s may have been specialised and eventually the unstoppable warrior caste of [[mutantOrk]]s that .{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|4}} Though their Ork and Gretchin servants were deliberately created by the Brain Boyz to serve certain dutiesanything but intellectual, though it believed that the truth they had strong survival instincts and an innate understanding of their own universe{{Fn|2}} – to this will never be known for certain. Regardlessend, it is known that the Brain Boyz died or possibly out long ago and the Orks inherited of some awareness of their civilisation to the point that this ruling caste become little more than legend. According to Orkish beliefsown finality, {{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|4}} the Brain Boyz died from a great plague which ran across many centuries that caused their numbers to dwindle included an innate technical skills and eventually led to their extinction. It is believed that this caste was aware some knowledge of their falling numbers and took steps to preserve their knowledge by engineering it into technology within the genetic structure strucutre of their slaves. This lasting legacy allowed the Orks to retain their high level of technology in later years by way of artificial strands of DNA these [[Mutant]]s, a boon which contains knowledge imprinted in their metabolism that allowed created the Orks to live following the demise [[Mekboy]]s{{Fn|1}} and enabled [[Ork]]ish continuance of their mastersempire.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|4}}
[[Snotlings]] are also thought to be remnants of this lost race. It is believed that As intelligent as the underground cave fungiBrainboyz were, which the they were unaware that they owed this intelligence to their diet: Snotlings are symbiotic withthe fungi they eat, caused a genetic mutation since early days cultivating their spores in the underground cave-systems of their homeworld,{{Fn|3}} and it was generations of this diet that stimulated the growth of their brainsand uplifted them to sapience. Over This ignorance was their undoing{{Fn|5}} The Brainboyz had some warning that they were over-reliant upon the generationsfungus, as they expanded into space they were unable to grow the fungus off-world, instead relying upon shipments from the Snotling brains developed homeworld to their full potential due colonies. Where these shipments were disrupted for years, the world would fall to this fungus, and this intelligent lost race the domination of Snotlings (Brainboyz) eventually developed Ork-kind, with the [[GretchinOrk]] as an intermediary developments. These less intelligent creatures {{Fn|3}} But, in large, they were fed ignorant to the possibility that these fungi could cause civilizational collapse.{{Fn|5}} The exact nature of that collapse varies across stories but all end the same as [[SquigsOrks]] rather than overthrow their oppressors and establish a new order for the Greenskins, forcing the intellect-enhancing fungus devolution of the Brainboyz consumedinto [[Snotling]]s.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|4}}{{Fn|5}} It is difficult to piece together this time in Ork history in any detail, and exists primarily through fragments of Ork legends{. However{Fn|5}} Whatever the truth of the matter, over time the Orks began Brain Boyz died out long ago: an ancient caste reduced to question why such diminutive creatures little more than legend{{Fn|4}} *Some [[Runtherd]]s tell that the servant castes were giving orderput to work farming and harvesting the raw fungi, and that as they worked, they too began to acquire eat the special fungus – within a few generations their [[Ork]] brains growing smart enough for themselvesviolent revolution. The [[Ork]]s enslaved their masters and denied them their fungi. This As the Brainboys regressed into Snotlings, the Orks lost their knowledge of cultivation and so the fungus did not have an effect upon became less abundant: the Orks also began to regress to their base inteligence, leaving them in the state they are today.{{Fn|5}} *Other [[Runtherd]]s tell agree that the Orks were the labourers which harvested the fungi, but expounded that it was distrust which drove them to eat the crop. Orkshad only been fed a diet of [[Squigs]], and without believing the fungusspecial as it was forbidden instead all at once sat down and ate every last toadstool, mushroom, and puffball to the spore on the homeworld – and that while the feast had no effect on Ork brains, the Brainboyz eventually regressed denial of this crucial nutrient stupefied the Snotlings into a juvenile their current state. The Orksfound themselves in charge, as crude successors to a young empire which they brought across the universe.{{Fn|3}}*Some legends stimply tell that it was an un-named tragedy during an Ork rebellion which caused the Brainboyz to regress into [[Snotling]]s{{Fn|2}}*Some Ork legends hold that it was a great centuries-long plague which stunted the Brainboyz civilization causing the whole race to die out, leaving a power void for the Orks to fill.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|4}} [[Runtherd]]s maintain that the [[Snotling]]s, mischievious and playful creatures content frolicking in cess-pits and harsh catching [[Squigs]], are the same species as they werethe Brainboyz: forever trapped in their underdeveloped pre-juvenile state.{{Fn|3}} The "Lost Race" is not lost, now rather the most intelligent slaves of their kind own creations; and inherited the civilization Orks the inheritors to their civilisation.{{Fn|5}} Regardless of the truth, Snotlings manifest from the same fungal spores as the rest of the BrainboyzOrks.{{Fn|36}}
==Ork Mythology==
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|quote = '''"Da only lost race I ever 'eard of woz when Hef crashed 'is sickle in da final stretch of da Cross-Desert rally," said Nuzzgrond irritably. "Cost me a few teef, dat did." He spat out a large gob squig, which bounced off the rocks and plopped into a nearby slime pudle.<br><br>"Nar," said Hef, idly picking one of his warts,"Pulg means da legendary Lost Race 'oo created da Orks an' stuff, don't yer, Pulg?"<br><br>The young Ork nodded enthusiastically. He was bright-eyed and keen to learn all about Ork Kultur.<br><br>"Yoo bin talkin' to da Gretchin again?" asked Nuzzgrond suspiciously. "Dis all sounds like Gretchin talk ter me."<br><br>"Nar, twas one of da Runtherdz was sayin' dat snotties used ta be a lot smarter in da old days. Dey used ta boss us Orks around."<br><br>"Yer don' wanna believe everfing da Oddboyz say, Pulg. Dey finks dey're speshul 'cos of all the snots and grots dey 'ave. Da only way snotties could boss us about wuz if dey woz seven foot tall. An' den dey would be Orks not snotties, hur hur!"<br><br>The Boss laughed roucously at his own wit and gave Pulg a comradely slap across his shoulder.<br><br>"Da Runtherd said dat da snotties used ter be smarter," persisted Pulg as he extracted himself from the thorny-bush and started to pick spines from his clothes. "'E said it woz all ter do wiv dis fungus-stuff dat dey ate. It made dere brains swell an' everybody listened ter dem 'coz dey woz smarter."<br><br>"When did an Ork ever listen ter anybody just coz dey woz smarter?" sneered Nozzgrond. "Snotties eat fungus all da time, an' dey're still stoopid little gits. An' anyway, Orks are – er – 'telligend, an' if anyone tellz ya otherwise, shoot dem wiv yer bolta!"<br><br>"It's possible," said Hef, considering the matter. "Maybe da fungus woz a drug an' it boosted da brain or sumfink."<br><br>Nozzgrond glared at him. "Like dat stuff you took last summer, dat had yer seein' pretty colours an' swearin' ya knew da secret of da ooniverse," he retorted. "Nar, dere's no fungus makes yer smarter, no lost race of super-snotties. I'm an Ork an' I should know. It's all rubbish!"<br><br>He poked around in the slime puddle with the end of his bolter, extracted the gob squig and popped it back into his mouth with the barrel.''' – conversation among the [[Black Skulls]]{{Fn|2}} on "Da Lost Race"{{Fn|5}}
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==Trivia==
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In [[Codex Necrons (3rd Edition)]], it is mentioned that the Old Ones created a hardy, green-skinned race to defend their last strongholds known as the '''Krork'''{{Fn|6}} It is implied that this may have been a progenitor to the [[Ork]]s, which would in turn either suggest that the Lost Race of Brain Boyz is simply a myth told by the [[Runtherd]]s about their most diminuitive flock, or that the Brain Boyz themselves were created or displaced by the [[Old One]]s and may in some way have been these [[Krork]]s.
==See also==
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Orks (2nd Edition)]], pg. 4
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Waaargh: Orks]], pgs. 4-6
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition)]], pg. 26
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