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==The Pulmni War==

{{Main|The Pulmni War}}

Soon after the utter dominance of their human foes, Mongo Mork and his boys would face a foe worthy of their power. When the [[Life Bringers|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 [[the Cleansing of the Mongoid Sector|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.