Editing Latoti Crusade (section)

==='Ere we go!===

The savants of the Ordo Xenos have spent thousands of years trying to uncover the logic beyond the actions of the Orks with little success. Some give up and conclude that the greenskins are just beasts for whom war just is their existence. Others continue to posit theories and test them against historical records. Not a few go mad. According to the reports of Fifth Legion warriors and attached Remembrancers, Warlord Rok'Ed was an Ork of truly prodigious size, outmassing even the greatest of Knight Walkers. We now know that such stature could only result from a long career of violence and destruction, no doubt stretching back decades - perhaps centuries! - before the violation of Omegon. Rok'Ed was also a canny if unsubtle commander, possessed of the Orkish virtues of "cunnin'" and brutality in equal measure, and had attracted a vast following of vicious greenskins to his banner.

Worse yet, Rok'Ed's WAAAGH! had dozens of space vessels at its disposal, ranging in size from looted Omegon cruisers up to massive space hulks. Studies of the ruined Omegon worlds suggest that the Orks followed a zig-zagging, almost random course, with elements of the main WAAAGH! frequently separating off to seek plunder and battle elsewhere and later rejoining the main mass. Dispatches from Fifth Legion indicate that elements of the Orkish WAAAGH! were moving towards newly-pacified worlds in the Jenon Subsector as the Latoti Crusade began. Without the swift intervention of Gaspard Lumey's Space Marines, Pracaliv, the moons of Nadriynus, and Jenon itself would certainly have been overwhelmed and the whole Pandora Sector would have quickly followed, adding more loot and boyz to Rok'Ed's rampaging horde.

As always with an Orkish WAAAGH!, there was no ultimate goal to Rok'Ed's campaigns. The destruction of civilized life was the Ork's goal and only the beast's death would put an end to the violence.