Mongo Mork
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Mongo Mork was an Ork warboss who ruled over the Pulmn system, a strategically central and resource-rich area of the eponymous Mongoid Sector. The warboss grew to an incredible stature, both metaphorically and literally, during his nearly five centuries of warfare in the system against the advanced human inhabitants. The peculiar cult of personality which developed around Mongo Mork has been the subject of much discussion, as the strongest of his Nobs would plague the Imperium in this vast sector for nearly two centuries after his demise. There are many warbands which even still claim ties to the warboss, and some even go to war against each other for millennia old disputes pertaining to this legacy, though these claims are highly unlikely to have any real backing.
Early Life[edit]
Much of the early life of Mongo Mork is unknown, but it is known that he was came from the planet Bili in the Hapit system and traveled by Rok to Pulmn during a WAAAGH lost to time. He was originally just called Mongo, and he quickly made a name for himself in the first battles against the Pulmni humans on the feral world Capillo. The humans here had advanced technology, but their skills at warfare had atrophied due to the relative peace brought on by their monoculture, so the unprecedented Orkoid strike caused them to abandon the far-flung and wild planet to the invaders. The Pulmni forces retreated to the heart of their civilization, and both sides began planning for the next phase. The Hapitic Orks began to reshape Bili to their own purposes, stripping away foliage to make room for industrial facilities and producing up a storm. Though the Hapitic boss wanted to give chase to the Pulmni humans, Mongo stood up against this plan. Though the warboss was keen on putting the newcomer in his place, the old and leathery Snakebite Murdo stood for Mongo's plan, and he was permitted to say his piece.
Humans, according to Mongo, were stupid and soft enough to want back what the Orks had taken. It would not matter, he reasoned, that all that was worth looting had been pulled up. They would retake Bili for no reason other than that it had once been theirs, human sentimentalism would see them back with a larger force as soon as the time looked right. Mongo planned to give them exactly what they were looking for, and he instructed the greatest meks in the band to make as many roks as they could. After over a month of extremely tight-lipped production, and hundreds dead due to arguments over rumors of what the secret was, enough Roks to hold the entire WAAAGH were launched into space. The Hapit warboss explained the 'stratergy' that Mongo was planning, and how it would lead to a better scrap with the Pulmni humans. Mongo was correct in his assessment, and the humans swiftly began touching down onto Bili. It seemed as though they had sent an entire army, the Pulmni fleet touched down near the largest are of Orkoid factories and the Hapitic warboss took his Nobs for the first strike, followed by the rest of the Boys. Mongo, Murdo, and the meks brought up the rear, claiming it was all part of the plan.
Just as the warboss and his chosen met the Pulmni army, the dozens or Roks that had been sent into the void began rocketing down into the atmosphere on top of them. Mongo chuckled as the massive explosions repeated in an almost musical rhythm, but Murdo and the meks looked at him with wonder. There was no Ork alive so brutally cunning as that, and so they reasoned that Mongo must really be Mork. The new warboss and his inner circle started rounding up the boys to let them in on the joke, and there were few with the courage not to laugh along. The new order was proactive about knocking out any opposition, but Mongo Mork was careful not to get rid of the more willful and powerful if he could avoid it, and he quickly learned he had a knack for pushing the boys in the right direction.
WAAAGH! Mongo Mork[edit]
Mongo Mork's meks had a field day with the immense technological graveyard caused by their warboss' makeshift orbital bombardment, and soon his boys were better armed than most Bad Moons. The Orks had begun to skirmish and brawl at more frequent intervals as their thirst for war went unquenched, but the warboss was not yet ready to unleash them unto his neighbors. The technological build-up continued for months, with the most violent and uncontrolled in the warband growing more irascible. Mongo Mork saw opportunity where others would see pointless delay, and the most vicious were sent out to harass the nearby humans. This served an additional purpose to simply getting rid of the instigators, it also caused the Pulmni Republic to build their forces at an expedient rate. A full year of this led to a drastic change in the warband and, when Mongo Mork finally led the charge, there was far more organization than the Pulmni humans had predicted.
The smaller but more technically sophisticated fleet of Roks could almost be considered maneuverable and they targeted planet after planet in the rapidly deteriorating human republic. Each planet they had approached had been attacked by Mongo Mork's vangard in the years previous. Though the Ork advances were small and easily defeated, they left behind a hidden 5th column among the vegetation of their would-be victims. As the Orkoid fleet approached a planet, it would erupt into green violence long before Mongo's roks hit the soil. The human inhabitants had, for their part, prepared themselves well, but they were no match for the growing mass of the WAAAGH and all their advances only served to improve the technology of their attackers. Within two decades, the Pulmni Republic was utterly annihilated. The human inhabitants of the system, once numbering in the trillions, were now void-scattered bands of mere thousands.
Both Mongo Mork and his warband had grown massive in the decades of war, and his peculiar nature had come to shape a peculiar legion. The warboss had no choice but to delegate massive portions of his forces to the greatest of his lieutenants, they had long since grown to large to manage in the way he chose. Murdo, still by the boss' side, was given command of a large portion of his troops. The mighty fleet, likely the most advanced of its kind, was under the command of a clever blood axe called Little Mork who had long been Mongo's disciple. The massive force that was made up of reclaimed feral Orks was given over to Grak, one of their own. The formerly feral Ork was incredibly stupid, but he was also possessed of a strange charisma and utterly devoted to his warboss. Others included the long-serving and gifted mek Ubik, the speed freak Turbo Timm, Dok Snokko, Grobbo the Odd, and many more. The many sub-factions within the warband worked well under the command of Mongo Mork, who encouraged "wargamez" between the disparate forces.
The Pulmni War[edit]
Soon after the utter dominance of their human foes, Mongo Mork and his boys would face a foe worthy of their power. When the XIIth legion of the adeptus astartes came, they would face an Ork empire unlike any other. The decades of fighting against such powerful and advanced foes had turned the greatest in the warband into monsters and even the rank and file were efficient and well-equipped when compared to previous experiences with the greenskins. For two years the Mongoid Orks, as they would later come to be known, would wage a brutal war of attrition against some of the emperor's most resilient astartes. Were it not for the sacrifice of Mafran Marchessani in the initial phase of the war, as well as the protracted combat against the Ork fleet by Vanheim Paracel which served to divide Mongo Mork's forces, the astartes may have fallen.
Though Mongo Mork eventually fell to Brothers of Death 3rd Commander Hashimoto the Red at Alvio, the legacy he left behind in the eponymous Mongoid sector would haunt the Imperium for centuries as his successors refused to die out. The vicious decades of the internecine wars fought between his heirs and his killers would contribute more to the body of Ork warfare literature than any other, as the Life Bringers perfected this art. Though his reign was brief, Mongo Mork was the first warboss to truly challenge the Imperium, and his achievements would inspire both future Ork conquerors and those who would seek to destroy them.