Editing Warhammer 40,000 8th edition (section)

====[[Orks]]====
*Following several missions against xenos forces that appeared to be fleeing from an unknown foe, Watch Master Valesnus of the Deathwatch sends a request for reinforcements shortly before his Watch Fortress's astropathic relay explodes in a burst of WAAAGH! energy and auspicator buoys display an impossibly massive Ork fleet. By the time the reinforcements arrive, the Watch Fortress has been destroyed. Valesnus's body is found pinned to the wreckage with the remains of several battle-brothers, all of which have [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]]'s personal glyph branded onto their chests.
**Reports of Ghazghkull's activity cause consternation among Imperial high command, as he is documented to be in several completely different locations all at once. Warp-based time dilation is a possible reason for how he's doing it, but there are too many sightings for this to be the only explanation. Indeed, some Orks say that he can now witness and influence events from far away using "the Great Green". 
*A Salamanders strike force drawn from elements of the 2nd and 5th companies respond to a distress call from the Imperial naval base on Thrastos. In their haste to aid the navy, the Salamanders fail to notice a fleet of Ork warships hiding in a nearby asteroid field. The Ork Blood Axe Warboss Borzog, who was also a survivor from the Salamanders victory over the Orks on Phaistos, nearly wipes out the Salamanders strike force in a brutal trap. The base is overrun, and the Salamanders are forced to limp off with a few damaged Imperial Navy ships and leave their dead behind. Like Borzog before him, Captain Pellas Mir'san swears revenge over his enemy.
*The Orks know the Great Rift as "Gork's Grin," and claim it's Gork's mouth opening up to swallow the stars (and spit out all the Chaos stuff he didn't want to swallow). Following an impeccable display of Ork logic that Gork might swallow and spit up other armies too, many greenskin armadas head straight for the Great Rift in the hope of finding some new fights. 
*The long-forgotten Brain Boyz are given a mention; depending on which Runtherd is telling the story, either a plague some kind caused them to die out or devolve, or they were even more bellicose than the Orks and left to find the ultimate fight with the biggest Orks they could find. Either way, they somehow managed to engineer pure knowledge into the minds of the Orks. 
*Many Ork-beleaguered worlds that have been trapped behind the Great Rift are unable to evacuate their citizens as they usually would, dooming them to unwinnable wars of attrition. 
*Gork and Mork have apparently been rather busy slaughtering daemons in the Warp, and when the veil between the Warp and the Materium breaks they plan to lead the whole Ork race into a massive battle they call the "Great Waaagh!".
*Freebooterz have grown more common due to the Great Rift making more than a few Orks "a bit perkooliar", turning them into greedy loot-grabbers or Madboyz. 
*[[Mad Dok Grotsnik]] is rumored to be using the organs and body parts "donated" by his customers to be creating some kind of composite super-Ork, Frankenstein style. 
**To feed his need for more bodies, Grotsnik has arranged for the creation of his own warband called "Da Corpse Lootas". This bunch of Deathskulls, Painboyz, Freebooterz, and Grotsnik's own "Stitchboyz" exists solely to steal dead bodies from the battlefield (and make them if there are none) for Grotsnik to use as spare parts. 
*[[Wazdakka Gutsmek]]'s Waaagh! is pushing deep into the north of Segmentum Solar, and is apparently severe enough for the Custodes of the Dread Host to intervene. [[Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub]] has also been spotted leading his forces into the vicinity of Valhalla, and after hearing about the Stormsurge he has his Boyz set out for the Farsight Enclaves in the hopes of looting one for use as a Stompa. 
*A brief summary of the [[War of the Beast]].
*[[Old Zogwort]]'s Weirdwaagh! was swallowed up by a Warp storm, only to burst out of the Warp over the world of Morrowgrym Prime. If the visions of Imperial astropaths in that system are correct, he was literally sneezed out by Mork- and the green ectoplasm Zogwort's hordes were covered with lends a disturbing credence to that notion.
*[[Boss Zagstruk]]'s boyz have noticed that Da Boss has become much more ambitious as of late. Recently, he conquered an Imperial Shrine World which now serves as the capital of his growing Stormwaaagh!.
*[[Boss Snikrot]] has not been taking the occasional truces with the Imperium necessary to deal with Armageddon's daemon problem very well. As of late, more than a few Nobs have turned up dead with their heads on spikes as Snikrot's warning against "mobbin' up wiv humies". 
*Following his bailing out of Badmek Mogrot from Alaric Prime (and subsequently milking his technological know-wotz for all they're worth), [[Kaptin_badrukk|Kaptin Badrukk]] and his Freebooterz have become more daring and dangerous than ever before. ''Da Blacktoof'' alone is now capable of annihilating hive cities unassisted. 
*[[Deff Skwadron]] gets an entire section of the "Famous Flyboyz" box to itself.
*Contrary to popular belief, [[Makari]] is alive and well.
*Ghazghkull is decapitated in a duel with Ragnar Blackmane, but is somehow brought back to life by Mad Dok Grotsnik.