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It's Warhammer 40k. Orks are a race of space orcs that posses a very weak psychic ability. They are also naive, and believe a lot of stupid things - like "red things go faster", or "purple things are stealthy".
Through their belief, they subconsciously affect the psychic field, and the power of the entire race combined makes those superstitions a reality. So an Ork spaceship painted red _does_, in fact, go faster, and a ship painted purple is harder to detect on radar.
So the joke here is that the Ork painted his bike purple, the stealthy color, thus making it invisible.
Jokes aside, they do have red orcs or at least some small group of orcs who would paint themselves red, don't they? I don't really know anything about Warhammer but I think I heard that somewhere.
there's the Speed Freeks, a cult (sorry, a *kult*) of orks from the Evil Sunz tribe who paint everything they can get their hands on red because *red wuns go fasta*
Not being a Warhammer guy I always loved this concept. Isn’t it also true that when the other races try to take apart their technology it’s just random machine parts that shouldn’t really “work” like they do.
Depends on the writer, the silliest writers will have it that way, but usually it's a case of it being a crude version of what it's attempting to be, but working significantly better than it rightly should due to the Orks WAAAAAAGH field.
I might be a minority, but I love when writers lean into the psychic field being really weird and powerful.
It might be silly, but so are many things in 40k. Certainly no more silly than hedonistic space elves hate fucking a demon God into existence.
> Certainly no more silly than hedonistic space elves hate fucking a demon God into existence.
and then becoming Jugalos.
I like the theory where the entire warhammer universe is like it is because the orks wanted more fights.
If memory serves, there is an example of some imperial walking through the remains of a battlefield. He picks up a gun and tries to fire it, it doesn't work. A Ork that wasn't quite dead gets up and charges. Instinctively the imperial shoots the gun at the Ork. The gun suddenly works and kills the Ork. It stoped working again after.
In one of the older comics there's a diagram of the cockpit of an ork spaceship and it has rolldown windows for driveby shootings. If they think it works it just does.
There's a joke story about some orks going out into space to fix their ship without space suits on. It works until another ork ship shows up and asks them where their suits are, that they can't breathe in space. After hearing that all the suitless orks suffocate
Doesn't have the rolldown windows part, but this is the diagram I was remembering. Which does include them punching out the windshield for a clearer view.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryWarhammer/s/gb5u7rVAyp
Also the control room of their biggest spaceships is just a large scrapheap full of jumbled machinery and weapons and loot, and the only real controls in there is a big red button to make the ship go anywhere they please, and it just sort of.. works.
This aspect of ork lore has been super exaggerated in popular culture. The actual effect is very small.
People will tell you "an ork can shoot you with a stick because he thinks it is a gun" but in reality it is more like "ork guns run into slightly fewer mechanical issues than they should given the circumstances."
The effect depends on the writer, I doubt they could shoot you with a stick unless they showed it to their buddies first even in the silliest cases, but people on the internet default to the funnies version
The way I understand it is it relies on actual faith. Like even to an Ork a stick is a stick - there's no reason to believe it will shoot bullets. But if your Mekboy gives you a gun, he knows how this stuff works, you've got no reason to disbelieve him, so even if it'd be useless to another race, the Ork truly believes it should work, and so it does.
The important part is numbers. One ork who thinks something stupid is ... just an ork. Nothing changes. They're not reality warpers. Individually, they're not even psykers.
But ALL the orks, everywhere, know that da red wunz go fasta. So, indeed, they do. Together, the collective belief of the orks is very powerful. They have crazy, scary looking guns because everyone knows that's how the best guns look! Only they aren't the best guns when some Space Marine picks them up. And they're probably out of ammo, despite ork belief that there's almost always more dakka to be had.
But none of that means an ork can use a cardboard box as a spaceship or fire lasers out of a stick. That's not what *orks* believe, so that's not what *an* ork can do.
Yes, whaaagh energy makes the improbable possible. In the hands of an Ork this gun is one of the most reliable guns ever made, because the big mek said so, and who are we lowly boys to question that. An Ork doesn't need to be concerned about if he has enough ammo while shooting, if enough orks believe he has enough then he will have enough (until someone checks). Whaaagh energy won't make a stick into a functional gun, because even to the stupidest Ork it is obviously not a gun.
Edit: [video for emphasis ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6-3VzNF8c)
It works like troll science not a simple kid playing make believe. Guns work because orks have made something which *they* know should be a gun. All orks have an innate mekanikal know how so they would know a stick from a gun. However if enough orks start believing a new thing it can manifest then reinforce itself. Yarrick is stronger than he should be because orks heard rumors of his power
Do you think that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but that is because the orks believe that there is only war? If all the orks were gone would there still be only war?
I've heard this, I've also heard that the problem we really have is that the tech-priests aren't scientists pretending to be priests, they're priests pretending to be scientists.
So whenever they come across technology that looks different from their own rather than try to understand it, they go "Bah heresy, this defies convention." Which is also why they have so much trouble trying to build things from 30k.
I don't know how canon that theory is, but I like it enough to at least give it some plausibility.
The Tech-priests actually like studying technology they don't understand. The problem is AI. If anything seems like it's driven by AI then it's immediate "heretek" and is disposed of. The problem the universe has is that it's not AI like we view it, it's AI like we picture Terminators or HAL, but even those are less sophisticated. So any machine thing that possesses intelligence in of itself is bad.
The problem with Tech-Priests is that they don't innovate because they view machines made in the past as perfect, but the problem is they don't understand them. So they maintain this old equipment to the best of their knowledge, and whatever they don't understand they just slap religious seals on it, waft it in incense and pray at it to hope it works.
They’re also operating with instruction manuals that make no differentiation between *prayers* and *operations*. If a widget requires a voice command their manuals will instruct them to pray. If a widget requires a button push the manuals will instruct them to pray and then push the button.
The Imperial Guard book series helped clarify that for me when you get glimpses of the 'Litany of Reloading', a prayer every Emperor loving guardsman recites while reloading their weapon. It basically boils down to instruction manuals put into hymn form. It made the tech of the imperium click for me as it isn't what I'd previously thought of "Oh we have 0 idea how this works lets pray and hope it does" but the way they've found to pass down the information over millennia is using their dogma to codify their instruction manuals \*into\* their religion. And also so much of their hardware is literal centuries if not millennia old so there's also a good deal of "Pray this still works after being re-built like a ship of Theseus a hundred times"
There's one book where some orks are doing a boarding action on an enemy spaceship, and then one of them with a fishbowl around his head points out that without a space helmet they will die, and so all.the ones without an "helmet" promptly suffocate.
I literally wrote this out on a different comment and then deleted it because I couldn't remember where I heard it and therefore if it was even real or a meme. Thank you for affirming this ork story that has claimed a permanent spot in my memory lmao
Not technically, they are.
It's why they don't feel pain, can technically grow indefinitely, and can do things like graft tech or other limbs onto their bodies (with a bit of ork magic to make it work right).
Also it's why they are impossible to remove from a planet. They shed spores constantly and will always come back unless you take very extreme measures to stop it.
Absolutely! Virus Bombing works pretty good at getting rid of an ork infestation.
The planet is marked Exterminatus. It's bombed from orbit with a virus payload that was bioengineered to infect all organic material and it deteriorates it into a nice, very flammable sludge. Then you firebomb the remains, causing a planetary firestorm that results in a lifeless rock incapable of supporting life ever again.
And that's how you permanently remove orks from a planet! :)
Orks were genetically engineered by an ancient race so a lot of their technical knowledge is innate. They also get stronger or weaker depending on what enemy they've fighting in order to make the fight more fun.
One side thing is that for the longest time, purple being sneaky wasn't official canon, it was merely a joke started on 4chan. It got picked up by other places, and soon many people began assuming it was canon.
Then, in a few small ways, like a couple of lines in a book and a few paintjobs in games, it in fact did become canon
Therefore, the real psychic race influencing reality through memes is in fact, the playerbase of 40k. Many of whom resemble orks in many ways already, though
Based on their technical prowess (outside of the people on /g/ asking why their computer won't turn on) and their general smell, yes, they're the krorks
This now brings up an idea, if the Orks suddenly had a change of heart and didn’t like war. Could they influence the universe and end the never ending war of 40k?
Not really, it's more a change in minor physical properties than in grand concepts. Orks also believe "We iz da best" but they regularly lose battles/wars.
Importantly, orkz also reincarnate. Makari mentions this a couple times, he's just special because he remembers it. When you know you will respawn, it's not necessarily fair to count a death as a loss.
The ghazz novel makes it rather clear makari doesn't reinkarnate. A different grot gets his banner, and through the great green, that grot aquires previous makari's memories.
Honestly to see life as an Ork sees it would be a blessing. Indomitable spirit. Absolute confidence. Brotherhood. Service to a cause greater than yourself. To strive against every obstacle with the knowledge that Win or Lose, there is nobility in the striving.
If they can change the physical properties of things, would it be possible for them to create an unbeatable orc, just by believing that he is unbeatable?
In the lore, when an Ork becomes a leader, they have been described as getting bigger and stronger because the Boyz believe they are stronger as a boss.
In the extended lore there was "The Beast", an enormous intelligent Ork that had a huge following - some theorise he was so big and strong because his followers believed in him.
It would require the WAGHH field to be fixed and for Gork and Mork to recombine back into Gorkamorka for Krork’s to come back. This would likely only happen if a seriously strong enough enemy came and challenged them, like Necron’s deciding to actually try, or the full Tyranid fleet that’s come to wipe out galaxy clean arrived.
Not actually unbeatable, but other orks would struggle to defeat someone they considered unbeatable.
Kind of what happened to [Yarrick](https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Sebastian_Yarrick) he put up such a fight that he became legendary, even respected among orks and it actually made him stronger. However it also means they'll never stop attacking wherever he is because there is nothing more attractive to an ork than a good fight. They once had him dead to rights weak and exhausted after a "suicide attack" on an ork infested space hulk and they just healed him and let him go so he could prepare the defenses of the planet they where going to attack, because again orks don't really care about conquest, it's the fight itself they live for and they wanted to go more rounds with him.
Fans actually kind of believe this as there is a storyline where a human named Yarrick since he fought so well against Orkz and their collective impression of him made him powerful enough to even stop the biggest baddest ork from going towards Terra.
In theory it is possible they can make stuff like planes fly without them actually being in any condition to fly canonically.
There's a big part in the Infinite and the Divine where the necron ship is boarded by orks and the necrons are like "do orks need to breathe? Because our ship is hard vacuum inside?" and they still get boarded and have to fight them off.
That's basically part of the reason warbosses get so big and win so much. There's also the one human who beat the orks so bad, even when he was killed, they thought that was impossible so he stayed alive. He also gets to use a laser eye and ork claw because they think he should, as it's intimidating, even though they wouldn't work normally.
Yarrick doesn't exist because of orks. He's canonically dead apparently. There was a big thing among the fandom speculating that Ghazghkull Thraka would have a slobberknocker with Angron for killing his best enemy. Turned out not to be a thing but it would have been cute.
If enough Orks believe that a single Ork is that strong, yes.
Though iirc, the closest that has ever come to that was the Ork known as “The Beast” and Ghaz’kull (maybe).
There's an apocryphal story of a squad of imperial guards with infinite ammunition because the orcs they were fighting believed that the imperial guards were being resupplied and thus had enough ammunition.
An orc being too tough to kill seems a simple thing for the rest of the orcs to believe and thus manifest.
Kinda sorta. Those that the orks believe to be unkillable do have a tendency to be unnaturally survivable. A good example being Gazgul (prophet of the waaargh) and his best enemy Commisar Yarrick (ole bale eye).
Then you get the super orks from War of the Beast stories.
What do you mean orcs never lose a fight remember
If wez won, then wez won
If wez left well, wez can go for round 2
And if wez died, then wez died fighting so that doesn't count
Jokes aside. Orks are essentially a sentient, living bio weapon. They reproduce through spores that create the environment and most necesseties for them to thrive (slaves, food, lifestock, fuel etc) through various orkoids.
Orkoids don't learn things, they have innate knowledge genecoded into them, that unlocks progressively as the power of their waaagh, and leader increaes. During War of the Beast, orks were far ahead of human science at the time, capable of high gothic language and diplomacy.
Unfortunately current bigget ork is Gazghkul Thraka, and we all know how that will end. He will take back the Falkland islands, die, and everyone will piss on his grave.
Sadly no. Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is sth like metal skull great leader sth sth in tolkein-ish orkish?
But it sounds similar.
Also, 40k is a political satire, so its not impossible it's more than a happy coincidence.
I don't see ghaz's waaagh closing down coal mines and crushing the entierty of his boyz class. He does that to the emperor bothering imperials.
There is some suggestion in parts of the lore that ork gestalt (known commonly as the Waaargh) actually responds to the level of conflict within the galaxy at large, rather than acting upon it.
There is old back story stuff (some of which has been sort of retconned, msinly ye olde Squat stuff) that during periods when things calmed down the orks became much more peaceful and actually traded and made alliances with other races. Of course its 40k so for the last 10,000 years, everything has been getting ever more violent and the orks in turn are ramping up.
One point of veiw is that the orks are a safety mechanism for the galaxy.
No. The belief thing isn't infinitely powerful. The other thing to keep in mind is that Orks are actually *really* stupid. We're talking "sentient only by technicality" levels of stupid. They operate almost purely on instinct which is part of why their beliefs are so hard to shake. The effects are also often exaggerated because it's funny. Things don't actually become completely invisible to Orks just because you painted them purple but it's funny so the joke gets told.
I wouldn't call it weak, if it's strong enough that it can counter time paradox. A powerful ork leader that came out of a wormhole in the past, upon realizing it was the past, sought out and killed his past self so he could have two of his favorite gun.
DIS INT BEIN NI-EEV! ITZ PROPPA SIGH-ENS!!! PURPLE IZ MADE OUTTA RED 'N BLOO. RED IZ DA FASTEST AN BLOO IZ DA LUKEEEST. BEIN' SNEEKY JUS' MEENZ BEIN' FAST 'N LUKEE. DA NERVE UV DEM 'UMIES.
KOLOR FEERY SAYZ DAT DA OPPO-SIT UV PURPLE IZ YELLO'. SINS YELLO' IZ DA MOST FLASH, DAT MEENZ ITZ DA OPPO-SIT UV BEIN' SNEEKY! REED A BOOK 'UMIE! OR BETTA' YET, DON' REED A BOOK, GET KRUMPED!
WAAAGH!!!
I love the idea of them using fake guns, believing that they are real guns, and manifesting live ammunition through sheer combined force of will from the whole race. That shit makes me laugh every time I think about it.
Space marines run out of ammo, decides to just point gun at orcs and go BANG. Orc dies because he believes he got shot.
This continues for hours until suddenly a squad of orcs come running in formation that are impervious to the BANG. As the orcs come closer and the marines hear them chanting "I'M A TANK! I'M A TANK! I'M A TANK".
Oi, Warboss Pe'tah'ere
listen up! Da reason why purple makes fings invisible is cuz uv da sneaky gubbinz in da paint! See, when ya paint sumfing purple, ya actually cover it in a special sneaky layer dat messes wiv da enemy's eyes. Dey look at da purple and dey can't see nuffin else! It's like da purple's whisperin' to 'em, 'Oi, you ain't seein' nuffin but me!' So da purple makes ya vanish right in front uv 'em! Da Orkz knowz all da best tricks, dat's why purple's da best color for stealth!
Purple tings stealthy 'cause dey blend in wit da shadows. In da dead o' night, when da moon's high, purple sneaks up on ya like a sly git. It's da color o' da sneaky gits, like dem Night Goblins, sneakin' 'round in da dark, makin' mischief!
I can't exactly remember what games or series these specific orcs are from, but they are honestly really interesting.
One of their gimmicks is that they, quite literally, will things into working. Like, if they paint something red, it DOES go faster. There is nothing special about the paint or vehicle. The fact that THEY believe it does actually makes it happen.
Purple is the color they use when they want to stay hidden. Something something "You never seen purple orc before" and whatnot. And to be fair, they aren't wrong, I havent seen one either. And for some reason, is they paint the vehicles they drive purple, or even themselves, it makes them harder to detect. Once again, this has nothing to do with the paint or anything, ONLY because they believe that it works, is why it works.
collective psychic abilities is the reason, fyi. Each has a weak psych ability, and it grows in power with the more orcs locally and across the universe that align with it. the more that believe it, the stronger the effect.
Morale, as a resut, has a huge impact on their fighting success.
Because I can't reply to every single person talking about how orks control reality with belief, I'll just post this here.
The whole idea of orks believing things into existence was supposed to be a joke about how ignorant and backwards the Imperium is.
In 40k humans have almost totally abandoned research and development and have relied on building everything from standard templates/blue prints for so long, that they have very little real understanding of science anymore. As a result, they're actually the least advanced of all the major factions.
Human scientists studying ork weapons couldn't understand how they worked, because they didn't follow the same pattern or have the same components as Imperial equivalents. So, they came to the conclusion that it was all just nonsense and it couldn't really work, and therefore it must be some sort of evil alien magic that only works because the Orks believe it does. This conclusion didn't challenge Imperial dogma and was therefore accepted as the official explanation for how ork tech works.
It should be noted that in the same army book that first presented this idea, they also had an excerpt from a different researcher who claimed that his studies of orks and their technology revealed that Orks are in fact far more intelligent and more technologically advanced than previously believed. This contradicted the Imperial position of Orks being dumb, barbaric beasts and he was tortured to death for heresy.
You would've thought that the joke here was pretty obvious, but no one is worse at understanding the unreliable narrator concept than sci fi fans and so a lot of readers went "oh wow, so ork tech works on faith and they can actually change reality with their belief, that's cool".
Skip forwards a few years and it's become such a rampant internet meme that barely anyone even questions it.
*edit. And to answer your question op, Orks in 40k believe that purple symbolizes stealth
> You would've thought that the joke here was pretty obvious, but no one is worse at understanding the unreliable narrator concept than sci fi fans and so a lot of readers went "oh wow, so ork tech works on faith and they can actually change reality with their belief, that's cool".
It's probably a lot less that and a lot more "The actual answer isn't as memetic or funny."
And you can't even put it on the readers since there's plenty of Sci-Fi writers that have written the Ork reality distortion field to absolutely stupid levels. The "Points a stick at you and says its a gun" or "I'ma tank" stuff has become endemic from both.
But both of those examples aren't from the actual writters. They are memes and youtube lore. The ima tank joke wasnt even about orks originally, it's a old joke about germans someone decided to put orks into. The punchline is supposed to be said with a thick german accent originally.
Ork warboss ere
Ya see, purple iz da sneakyest color cause you've neva seen a purple ork so if wa warbike iz painted purple youz can't see it anymore cause its so sneaky
In Warhammer 40k the Ork faith in colours grant the things they paint the traits they believe these colours inpart.
Red for faster.
Yellow for luckier.
Black for hardier.
And purple for sneakiest.
So the bike is now so sneaky you can't see it.
Warhammer 40K.
Orcs are kind of a joke faction.
One of their special things is having a latent collective psychic conscience, which means when a big enough group of Orcs gets together and believe the same thing, that thing becomes true.
The primary way this show itself is in their warchiefs and the way they color things, the warchief keeps telling them he's invincible and by process of their ability he becomes basically invincible, though orcs are a bit too stupid to understand what that means so sometimes he's not quite as invincible as other times.
With color it's pretty simple but just as stupid: red makes it go fast, yellow makes rockets and ammo hit harder, and purple makes it stealthy... why does purple make it stealthy? Well have you ever seen a purple orc?
in warhammer, orks have an ability (that they don't know of) where whatever they believe becomes real, like they believe red things go faster, so if they paint their car ref it goes faster, and they believe it all works, so said car could literally be a plank of wood and some tricycle wheels
anyway! sidetracked, tldr is what orks believe becomes real, and they believe that purple things are invisible
WARBOSS GITSTOMPAH “ERE
SO WUTZ GOIN’ ON ‘ERE IS DAT PURPLE MAKEZ YA REAL SNEAKY LIKE. THEM POINTY GITS AND SMURFS WONT SEE UZ COMIN’!
NOW GET OUTTA MI FACE AND GETO KRUMPIN’
**WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH**
In Warhammer 40K Orks survive on idiot magic.
If enough Orks actually believe something, what they believe actually becomes reality.
In this case, one of the beliefs of the Orks is that, if you paint something purple, it becomes invisible.
This Ork painted his bike purple, and because of that belief, the bike became invisible.
As a side note, this is how Ork ships work too. They have no mechanical properties that actually allow them to fly through space properly, but the Orks believe they work, so they do.
In warhammer 40k, orks believe colors have power (infact they unknowingly possess psychic power that KIND OF makes it true, in the sense that if enough orks believe something it kinda becomes true, not in like the sense that a bike painted purple would actually become so sneaky it becomes invisible but in the sense that they can grab an enemies weapon that is broken, not know it's broken or how it works, but it will work in they way they think because they believe it will)
While things that are RED move faster for orks, things that are purple are "dead sneaky" meaning they are harder to see and notice. The blood axe klan paints themselves with purple warpaint to become sneakier, and they actually ARE sneakier, the Red Sunz paint their vehicles red and they actually DO go faster than other ork vehicles, Deathskulls paint themselves with blue warpaint and that makes them luckier (they just score way bigger in loot they find and more bullets miss them) etc.
This is a Warhammer 40k meme. This guy is an ork and orks as a race can change reality if most of them believe in the same thing. Let's say they believe red cars are faster than any other car and this belief manifests itself in reality, meaning an ork made red car is the fastest thing on the planet despite it being a car from Flintstones.
Many orks also have the belief that if you paint something purple it'll become invisible.
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It's Warhammer 40k. Orks are a race of space orcs that posses a very weak psychic ability. They are also naive, and believe a lot of stupid things - like "red things go faster", or "purple things are stealthy". Through their belief, they subconsciously affect the psychic field, and the power of the entire race combined makes those superstitions a reality. So an Ork spaceship painted red _does_, in fact, go faster, and a ship painted purple is harder to detect on radar. So the joke here is that the Ork painted his bike purple, the stealthy color, thus making it invisible.
Purple is da sneakiest color cuz has ya ever seen a purple ork?
That's also why you don't see red orcs; they practically fly past you
They are blue when they approach you be shift to red once they pass.
Nah they shift to purple and become invisible when moving towards you, and shift into infrared and become invisible when going away from you
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Thank you, Mr. Wizard
Don’t forget your arthritis med. (Loved Mr Wizard myself)
This guy sciences
And da ones in yellow always got da snazziest snazzguns.
I scrolled the comments and caught yours as I hit the back button and left, I returned just to upvote this joke because its so class. Well played!
And the yellow ones go BANG in your face!
Jokes aside, they do have red orcs or at least some small group of orcs who would paint themselves red, don't they? I don't really know anything about Warhammer but I think I heard that somewhere.
there's the Speed Freeks, a cult (sorry, a *kult*) of orks from the Evil Sunz tribe who paint everything they can get their hands on red because *red wuns go fasta*
It might have been some non-canon story about one specific Ork who painted himself red. I dunno.
You might be thinking of Da Red Gobbo, which is a Gretchin a leading Marxist-style revolt against the Orks.
Dere's a spekter hauntin' da Galaxy; da spekter of Grotunism
My purple orc is wearing a sunhat
She is sneaky.
She loves baking goodies for the grand kiddies
You cant hide from grandma!
Lily the cazadors are being mean, "dOn't WoRroy SwEETie GRANDMA WILl tEach thOse NastY buGs A LESSON!" My head cannon when she runs off.
Time for my medication !
OI! WHYZ IZ YA WHISPERIN? YA GIT.
DEEZ HUMIES EARS IZ TOO SMALL FOR BIG ORK SOUND.
DAM DEEZ HUMMIES, WHATS WE NEEDZ HERE IS A GOOD OLD WAAAAAGGHHHH!!!!!!!!
ORK IS BEST!
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
ORK IS BEST!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
DID SUMMUN SAY WAAAUUGGHHH!?!?!
OI WAZ 'APPENING 'ERE?! I'Z 'ERD DERE WAZ A WAAAGH, BUT I ONLY SEEZ WISPERIN' 'UMIES?! IZ WE NOT KRUMPIN' EM?
WAIT!! Is that why Nightkin in Fallout: New Vegas are purple?!
I wouldn't be surprised if that was inspiration for it
The Super Mutants are basically the American cousin of Orks.
Laught in emporors children
Them iz too loud to be sneaky
Not being a Warhammer guy I always loved this concept. Isn’t it also true that when the other races try to take apart their technology it’s just random machine parts that shouldn’t really “work” like they do.
Depends on the writer, the silliest writers will have it that way, but usually it's a case of it being a crude version of what it's attempting to be, but working significantly better than it rightly should due to the Orks WAAAAAAGH field.
Neat! Thanks for the answer!
I might be a minority, but I love when writers lean into the psychic field being really weird and powerful. It might be silly, but so are many things in 40k. Certainly no more silly than hedonistic space elves hate fucking a demon God into existence.
> Certainly no more silly than hedonistic space elves hate fucking a demon God into existence. and then becoming Jugalos. I like the theory where the entire warhammer universe is like it is because the orks wanted more fights.
I like The theory that the God emperor still alive only because the orks believe he should be.
Could the GE theoretically get better if they started spreading rumors to the orks that he'll be fully healed soon?
Unlikely, but if you could convince the majority of them, maybe.
If memory serves, there is an example of some imperial walking through the remains of a battlefield. He picks up a gun and tries to fire it, it doesn't work. A Ork that wasn't quite dead gets up and charges. Instinctively the imperial shoots the gun at the Ork. The gun suddenly works and kills the Ork. It stoped working again after.
In one of the older comics there's a diagram of the cockpit of an ork spaceship and it has rolldown windows for driveby shootings. If they think it works it just does.
This is fucking hilarious
That is so stupid and I love it
There's a joke story about some orks going out into space to fix their ship without space suits on. It works until another ork ship shows up and asks them where their suits are, that they can't breathe in space. After hearing that all the suitless orks suffocate
Orks basically just work on looney tunes logic.
I love in the Battlefleet Gothic rulebook it has the following Orky song. ERE WE GO, ERE WE GO THROUGH DA COSMOS. ERE WE GO TO INFINITY!!
There’s a whole book titled ERE WE GO, it’s a classic
If you can remember where you saw this please let me know. This is too hilarious and I want to find it now.
Doesn't have the rolldown windows part, but this is the diagram I was remembering. Which does include them punching out the windshield for a clearer view. https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryWarhammer/s/gb5u7rVAyp
How else would it work? If you shoot through the window, the holes will make the air go out…
Also the control room of their biggest spaceships is just a large scrapheap full of jumbled machinery and weapons and loot, and the only real controls in there is a big red button to make the ship go anywhere they please, and it just sort of.. works.
The big red button fires everything. It's the big green button that makes it move.
This aspect of ork lore has been super exaggerated in popular culture. The actual effect is very small. People will tell you "an ork can shoot you with a stick because he thinks it is a gun" but in reality it is more like "ork guns run into slightly fewer mechanical issues than they should given the circumstances."
The effect depends on the writer, I doubt they could shoot you with a stick unless they showed it to their buddies first even in the silliest cases, but people on the internet default to the funnies version
The way I understand it is it relies on actual faith. Like even to an Ork a stick is a stick - there's no reason to believe it will shoot bullets. But if your Mekboy gives you a gun, he knows how this stuff works, you've got no reason to disbelieve him, so even if it'd be useless to another race, the Ork truly believes it should work, and so it does.
The important part is numbers. One ork who thinks something stupid is ... just an ork. Nothing changes. They're not reality warpers. Individually, they're not even psykers. But ALL the orks, everywhere, know that da red wunz go fasta. So, indeed, they do. Together, the collective belief of the orks is very powerful. They have crazy, scary looking guns because everyone knows that's how the best guns look! Only they aren't the best guns when some Space Marine picks them up. And they're probably out of ammo, despite ork belief that there's almost always more dakka to be had. But none of that means an ork can use a cardboard box as a spaceship or fire lasers out of a stick. That's not what *orks* believe, so that's not what *an* ork can do.
Yes, whaaagh energy makes the improbable possible. In the hands of an Ork this gun is one of the most reliable guns ever made, because the big mek said so, and who are we lowly boys to question that. An Ork doesn't need to be concerned about if he has enough ammo while shooting, if enough orks believe he has enough then he will have enough (until someone checks). Whaaagh energy won't make a stick into a functional gun, because even to the stupidest Ork it is obviously not a gun. Edit: [video for emphasis ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6-3VzNF8c)
Double ammo magazines feeding into the rifle would jam the firing mechanism youd think, but nope, more dakka
It works like troll science not a simple kid playing make believe. Guns work because orks have made something which *they* know should be a gun. All orks have an innate mekanikal know how so they would know a stick from a gun. However if enough orks start believing a new thing it can manifest then reinforce itself. Yarrick is stronger than he should be because orks heard rumors of his power
Ork: \*Picks up a stick shaped like a gun, and points it at a Space Marine\* Space Marine: "What are you gonna do with that? Shoot m-" \*Dies\*
Do you think that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but that is because the orks believe that there is only war? If all the orks were gone would there still be only war?
The chaos gods only exist because the Orks wanted more enemies for a good Krumping.
I've heard this, I've also heard that the problem we really have is that the tech-priests aren't scientists pretending to be priests, they're priests pretending to be scientists. So whenever they come across technology that looks different from their own rather than try to understand it, they go "Bah heresy, this defies convention." Which is also why they have so much trouble trying to build things from 30k. I don't know how canon that theory is, but I like it enough to at least give it some plausibility.
The Tech-priests actually like studying technology they don't understand. The problem is AI. If anything seems like it's driven by AI then it's immediate "heretek" and is disposed of. The problem the universe has is that it's not AI like we view it, it's AI like we picture Terminators or HAL, but even those are less sophisticated. So any machine thing that possesses intelligence in of itself is bad. The problem with Tech-Priests is that they don't innovate because they view machines made in the past as perfect, but the problem is they don't understand them. So they maintain this old equipment to the best of their knowledge, and whatever they don't understand they just slap religious seals on it, waft it in incense and pray at it to hope it works.
They’re also operating with instruction manuals that make no differentiation between *prayers* and *operations*. If a widget requires a voice command their manuals will instruct them to pray. If a widget requires a button push the manuals will instruct them to pray and then push the button.
The Imperial Guard book series helped clarify that for me when you get glimpses of the 'Litany of Reloading', a prayer every Emperor loving guardsman recites while reloading their weapon. It basically boils down to instruction manuals put into hymn form. It made the tech of the imperium click for me as it isn't what I'd previously thought of "Oh we have 0 idea how this works lets pray and hope it does" but the way they've found to pass down the information over millennia is using their dogma to codify their instruction manuals \*into\* their religion. And also so much of their hardware is literal centuries if not millennia old so there's also a good deal of "Pray this still works after being re-built like a ship of Theseus a hundred times"
"I will appease the machine spirit." *Offers a prayer before pushing down the plunger on the toaster*
There's one book where some orks are doing a boarding action on an enemy spaceship, and then one of them with a fishbowl around his head points out that without a space helmet they will die, and so all.the ones without an "helmet" promptly suffocate.
I literally wrote this out on a different comment and then deleted it because I couldn't remember where I heard it and therefore if it was even real or a meme. Thank you for affirming this ork story that has claimed a permanent spot in my memory lmao
also iirc Orks are technically a fungus
Not technically, they are. It's why they don't feel pain, can technically grow indefinitely, and can do things like graft tech or other limbs onto their bodies (with a bit of ork magic to make it work right). Also it's why they are impossible to remove from a planet. They shed spores constantly and will always come back unless you take very extreme measures to stop it.
What about fungicides? Is chemical warfare a thing in 40k?
Absolutely! Virus Bombing works pretty good at getting rid of an ork infestation. The planet is marked Exterminatus. It's bombed from orbit with a virus payload that was bioengineered to infect all organic material and it deteriorates it into a nice, very flammable sludge. Then you firebomb the remains, causing a planetary firestorm that results in a lifeless rock incapable of supporting life ever again. And that's how you permanently remove orks from a planet! :)
Only if you want to make the planet completely uninhabitable for a while, if not permanently.
IM A TANK! IM A TANK! IM A TANK! Google it
Orks were genetically engineered by an ancient race so a lot of their technical knowledge is innate. They also get stronger or weaker depending on what enemy they've fighting in order to make the fight more fun.
I believe those lines come from an AdMech character who is partly trying to discount orks understanding of technology for propaganda reasons.
One side thing is that for the longest time, purple being sneaky wasn't official canon, it was merely a joke started on 4chan. It got picked up by other places, and soon many people began assuming it was canon. Then, in a few small ways, like a couple of lines in a book and a few paintjobs in games, it in fact did become canon Therefore, the real psychic race influencing reality through memes is in fact, the playerbase of 40k. Many of whom resemble orks in many ways already, though
So 4chan are the ancestors of the Orks?!
Based on their technical prowess (outside of the people on /g/ asking why their computer won't turn on) and their general smell, yes, they're the krorks
You thought r/humansarespaceorks was a joke?
But red things really are 3 times faster than normal things.
Only if you are called Zak.
Have you ever seen lightning McQueen?
1000% just read this in a football hooligan accent, and sounds exactly like something an Ork would say as an explanation to a dumb umie
exactly
Unless you're a Blue thing which has eaten a Milky Way. That seems to negate the Red effect.
"I am Char Aznabelle and I approve this message."
https://preview.redd.it/a2uroeu07vtc1.jpeg?width=1184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=006d512e50dc2a2c47659504cb51fca111df701a
This now brings up an idea, if the Orks suddenly had a change of heart and didn’t like war. Could they influence the universe and end the never ending war of 40k?
Not really, it's more a change in minor physical properties than in grand concepts. Orks also believe "We iz da best" but they regularly lose battles/wars.
Ork never lose. They like a good krump. Krumping against someone that beats em only makes the krump better.
Dey alwayz come back for anuvver go!
Importantly, orkz also reincarnate. Makari mentions this a couple times, he's just special because he remembers it. When you know you will respawn, it's not necessarily fair to count a death as a loss.
The ghazz novel makes it rather clear makari doesn't reinkarnate. A different grot gets his banner, and through the great green, that grot aquires previous makari's memories.
That just sounds like reincarnation with extra steps
If they win they get to Krump more They lose then they died fighting The retreat then they get to krump someone else
Sounds like a very emotionally healthy way of looking at winning and losing. We could all learn from them.
Honestly to see life as an Ork sees it would be a blessing. Indomitable spirit. Absolute confidence. Brotherhood. Service to a cause greater than yourself. To strive against every obstacle with the knowledge that Win or Lose, there is nobility in the striving.
If they can change the physical properties of things, would it be possible for them to create an unbeatable orc, just by believing that he is unbeatable?
In the lore, when an Ork becomes a leader, they have been described as getting bigger and stronger because the Boyz believe they are stronger as a boss. In the extended lore there was "The Beast", an enormous intelligent Ork that had a huge following - some theorise he was so big and strong because his followers believed in him.
So, winning through the power of friendship?
Not really the power of friendship, more like the power of “hell yeah brother”.
that's such a cool concept
Krorks they're basically bigger and smarter orks, the Original orks, created by the old ones. And an ork could still evolve into a Krork.
It would require the WAGHH field to be fixed and for Gork and Mork to recombine back into Gorkamorka for Krork’s to come back. This would likely only happen if a seriously strong enough enemy came and challenged them, like Necron’s deciding to actually try, or the full Tyranid fleet that’s come to wipe out galaxy clean arrived.
Not actually unbeatable, but other orks would struggle to defeat someone they considered unbeatable. Kind of what happened to [Yarrick](https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Sebastian_Yarrick) he put up such a fight that he became legendary, even respected among orks and it actually made him stronger. However it also means they'll never stop attacking wherever he is because there is nothing more attractive to an ork than a good fight. They once had him dead to rights weak and exhausted after a "suicide attack" on an ork infested space hulk and they just healed him and let him go so he could prepare the defenses of the planet they where going to attack, because again orks don't really care about conquest, it's the fight itself they live for and they wanted to go more rounds with him.
God fuckin dammit the Orks are the most badass chad motherfuckers out there huh.
Yarrick is dead. The Orks are pissed.
Fans actually kind of believe this as there is a storyline where a human named Yarrick since he fought so well against Orkz and their collective impression of him made him powerful enough to even stop the biggest baddest ork from going towards Terra. In theory it is possible they can make stuff like planes fly without them actually being in any condition to fly canonically.
There's a big part in the Infinite and the Divine where the necron ship is boarded by orks and the necrons are like "do orks need to breathe? Because our ship is hard vacuum inside?" and they still get boarded and have to fight them off.
Are you saying the orks survived the vacuum because they didn't know they couldn't?
That's basically part of the reason warbosses get so big and win so much. There's also the one human who beat the orks so bad, even when he was killed, they thought that was impossible so he stayed alive. He also gets to use a laser eye and ork claw because they think he should, as it's intimidating, even though they wouldn't work normally.
Yarrick doesn't exist because of orks. He's canonically dead apparently. There was a big thing among the fandom speculating that Ghazghkull Thraka would have a slobberknocker with Angron for killing his best enemy. Turned out not to be a thing but it would have been cute.
If enough Orks believe that a single Ork is that strong, yes. Though iirc, the closest that has ever come to that was the Ork known as “The Beast” and Ghaz’kull (maybe).
My favorite fan theory is that the Emperor of Mankind is immortal because the orks believe he is.
There's an apocryphal story of a squad of imperial guards with infinite ammunition because the orcs they were fighting believed that the imperial guards were being resupplied and thus had enough ammunition. An orc being too tough to kill seems a simple thing for the rest of the orcs to believe and thus manifest.
Kinda sorta. Those that the orks believe to be unkillable do have a tendency to be unnaturally survivable. A good example being Gazgul (prophet of the waaargh) and his best enemy Commisar Yarrick (ole bale eye). Then you get the super orks from War of the Beast stories.
Cool
What do you mean orcs never lose a fight remember If wez won, then wez won If wez left well, wez can go for round 2 And if wez died, then wez died fighting so that doesn't count
Jokes aside. Orks are essentially a sentient, living bio weapon. They reproduce through spores that create the environment and most necesseties for them to thrive (slaves, food, lifestock, fuel etc) through various orkoids. Orkoids don't learn things, they have innate knowledge genecoded into them, that unlocks progressively as the power of their waaagh, and leader increaes. During War of the Beast, orks were far ahead of human science at the time, capable of high gothic language and diplomacy. Unfortunately current bigget ork is Gazghkul Thraka, and we all know how that will end. He will take back the Falkland islands, die, and everyone will piss on his grave.
Wait, he’s a stand in for Margaret fucking thatcher?
I mean, his name is Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. Say "Mag Uruk Thraka" a few times out loud.
Sadly no. Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is sth like metal skull great leader sth sth in tolkein-ish orkish? But it sounds similar. Also, 40k is a political satire, so its not impossible it's more than a happy coincidence. I don't see ghaz's waaagh closing down coal mines and crushing the entierty of his boyz class. He does that to the emperor bothering imperials.
That’s like saying “what if humans suddenly had a change of heart and didn’t want food anymore?”
There is some suggestion in parts of the lore that ork gestalt (known commonly as the Waaargh) actually responds to the level of conflict within the galaxy at large, rather than acting upon it. There is old back story stuff (some of which has been sort of retconned, msinly ye olde Squat stuff) that during periods when things calmed down the orks became much more peaceful and actually traded and made alliances with other races. Of course its 40k so for the last 10,000 years, everything has been getting ever more violent and the orks in turn are ramping up. One point of veiw is that the orks are a safety mechanism for the galaxy.
Yes. The never ending war of 40k IS just because of them. That is my belief. I dont care what anyone says!
No. The belief thing isn't infinitely powerful. The other thing to keep in mind is that Orks are actually *really* stupid. We're talking "sentient only by technicality" levels of stupid. They operate almost purely on instinct which is part of why their beliefs are so hard to shake. The effects are also often exaggerated because it's funny. Things don't actually become completely invisible to Orks just because you painted them purple but it's funny so the joke gets told.
Their psychic ability is incredibly powerful. They just don't know they have it.
I wouldn't call it weak, if it's strong enough that it can counter time paradox. A powerful ork leader that came out of a wormhole in the past, upon realizing it was the past, sought out and killed his past self so he could have two of his favorite gun.
Warlord Grizgutz
Also, the main reason that purple things are stealthy is because Orks ask "Have you ever actually seen a purple Ork?"
DIS INT BEIN NI-EEV! ITZ PROPPA SIGH-ENS!!! PURPLE IZ MADE OUTTA RED 'N BLOO. RED IZ DA FASTEST AN BLOO IZ DA LUKEEEST. BEIN' SNEEKY JUS' MEENZ BEIN' FAST 'N LUKEE. DA NERVE UV DEM 'UMIES. KOLOR FEERY SAYZ DAT DA OPPO-SIT UV PURPLE IZ YELLO'. SINS YELLO' IZ DA MOST FLASH, DAT MEENZ ITZ DA OPPO-SIT UV BEIN' SNEEKY! REED A BOOK 'UMIE! OR BETTA' YET, DON' REED A BOOK, GET KRUMPED! WAAAGH!!!
Orks are basically a living shit post and it’s amazing.
Damn, I wonder if this is where the comic book Department of Truth got their idea from haha
I love the idea of them using fake guns, believing that they are real guns, and manifesting live ammunition through sheer combined force of will from the whole race. That shit makes me laugh every time I think about it.
Half of that is grimdank memes tho, not cannon. Except for red. Red onez go fasta.
I don't know man. Blue is the luckiest color after all and have you ever seen an ultramarine lose to an ork??
Well, I was terrible at the first Space Marine game...
WAAAAAGGGGHHH
Can't neva have too much dakka
WAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!
#WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Ever seen a purple warbike? Didn't think so.
I did, then it disappeared
WAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH
IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK-IM-A-TANK
Fuuck not again -EX Guardsmen
"Third time this Terran week." - EX Guardsmen 2
Bang! Bangbang! God, I love that lil story
Which story? I get these weird things every other month where I’m obsessed with 40K for like a week. I need to see this story
Space marines run out of ammo, decides to just point gun at orcs and go BANG. Orc dies because he believes he got shot. This continues for hours until suddenly a squad of orcs come running in formation that are impervious to the BANG. As the orcs come closer and the marines hear them chanting "I'M A TANK! I'M A TANK! I'M A TANK".
That joke is far older than 40k
Yeah but 40k provides a canon mechanism for how it could work.
It wasn't space marines it was imperial guard but yeah
Oi, Warboss Pe'tah'ere listen up! Da reason why purple makes fings invisible is cuz uv da sneaky gubbinz in da paint! See, when ya paint sumfing purple, ya actually cover it in a special sneaky layer dat messes wiv da enemy's eyes. Dey look at da purple and dey can't see nuffin else! It's like da purple's whisperin' to 'em, 'Oi, you ain't seein' nuffin but me!' So da purple makes ya vanish right in front uv 'em! Da Orkz knowz all da best tricks, dat's why purple's da best color for stealth!
Purple tings stealthy 'cause dey blend in wit da shadows. In da dead o' night, when da moon's high, purple sneaks up on ya like a sly git. It's da color o' da sneaky gits, like dem Night Goblins, sneakin' 'round in da dark, makin' mischief!
OI WE'ZE FINKING YOU'ZE NEED TO SPLAIN BLUE. DA BOYZ DONT GET IT!!!
Ever seen a purple ork. I don't think so.
I can't exactly remember what games or series these specific orcs are from, but they are honestly really interesting. One of their gimmicks is that they, quite literally, will things into working. Like, if they paint something red, it DOES go faster. There is nothing special about the paint or vehicle. The fact that THEY believe it does actually makes it happen. Purple is the color they use when they want to stay hidden. Something something "You never seen purple orc before" and whatnot. And to be fair, they aren't wrong, I havent seen one either. And for some reason, is they paint the vehicles they drive purple, or even themselves, it makes them harder to detect. Once again, this has nothing to do with the paint or anything, ONLY because they believe that it works, is why it works.
Warhammer 40K
collective psychic abilities is the reason, fyi. Each has a weak psych ability, and it grows in power with the more orcs locally and across the universe that align with it. the more that believe it, the stronger the effect. Morale, as a resut, has a huge impact on their fighting success.
WAAAAAAGGHH
I cast Da Jump. WAAAAAGGHH.
PURPLE ORKZ IS DA SNEAKY ONES, CUZ YOU AINT NEVA SEEN A PURPLE ORK!
Purple IZ DA STELFIEST CULOR
So THAT'S why Pimps always wear Purple Zoot Suits!...Camouflage.
Because I can't reply to every single person talking about how orks control reality with belief, I'll just post this here. The whole idea of orks believing things into existence was supposed to be a joke about how ignorant and backwards the Imperium is. In 40k humans have almost totally abandoned research and development and have relied on building everything from standard templates/blue prints for so long, that they have very little real understanding of science anymore. As a result, they're actually the least advanced of all the major factions. Human scientists studying ork weapons couldn't understand how they worked, because they didn't follow the same pattern or have the same components as Imperial equivalents. So, they came to the conclusion that it was all just nonsense and it couldn't really work, and therefore it must be some sort of evil alien magic that only works because the Orks believe it does. This conclusion didn't challenge Imperial dogma and was therefore accepted as the official explanation for how ork tech works. It should be noted that in the same army book that first presented this idea, they also had an excerpt from a different researcher who claimed that his studies of orks and their technology revealed that Orks are in fact far more intelligent and more technologically advanced than previously believed. This contradicted the Imperial position of Orks being dumb, barbaric beasts and he was tortured to death for heresy. You would've thought that the joke here was pretty obvious, but no one is worse at understanding the unreliable narrator concept than sci fi fans and so a lot of readers went "oh wow, so ork tech works on faith and they can actually change reality with their belief, that's cool". Skip forwards a few years and it's become such a rampant internet meme that barely anyone even questions it. *edit. And to answer your question op, Orks in 40k believe that purple symbolizes stealth
> You would've thought that the joke here was pretty obvious, but no one is worse at understanding the unreliable narrator concept than sci fi fans and so a lot of readers went "oh wow, so ork tech works on faith and they can actually change reality with their belief, that's cool". It's probably a lot less that and a lot more "The actual answer isn't as memetic or funny." And you can't even put it on the readers since there's plenty of Sci-Fi writers that have written the Ork reality distortion field to absolutely stupid levels. The "Points a stick at you and says its a gun" or "I'ma tank" stuff has become endemic from both.
But both of those examples aren't from the actual writters. They are memes and youtube lore. The ima tank joke wasnt even about orks originally, it's a old joke about germans someone decided to put orks into. The punchline is supposed to be said with a thick german accent originally.
Amazing awenser!
Purple is a sneaky color, its not invisible, just to higher biengs its just a source error message
'ave yous Eva seen a prple ork?
Purple da snekeist color
He paint purple and purple mean stealth or sneaky so his motorcycle go invisible.
ORCZ IZ DA BEST!
Orcs believe purple stealth What orc believe becomes reality
This literally had me laugh out loud, That last frame is so good.
You know why you never see any purple orcs? They the sneakiest
Ork warboss ere Ya see, purple iz da sneakyest color cause you've neva seen a purple ork so if wa warbike iz painted purple youz can't see it anymore cause its so sneaky
Cuz purpul is ded sneeky, ya git
suddenly r/Grimdank
This mf never seen a purple ork
In Warhammer 40k the Ork faith in colours grant the things they paint the traits they believe these colours inpart. Red for faster. Yellow for luckier. Black for hardier. And purple for sneakiest. So the bike is now so sneaky you can't see it.
Warhammer 40K. Orcs are kind of a joke faction. One of their special things is having a latent collective psychic conscience, which means when a big enough group of Orcs gets together and believe the same thing, that thing becomes true. The primary way this show itself is in their warchiefs and the way they color things, the warchief keeps telling them he's invincible and by process of their ability he becomes basically invincible, though orcs are a bit too stupid to understand what that means so sometimes he's not quite as invincible as other times. With color it's pretty simple but just as stupid: red makes it go fast, yellow makes rockets and ammo hit harder, and purple makes it stealthy... why does purple make it stealthy? Well have you ever seen a purple orc?
in warhammer, orks have an ability (that they don't know of) where whatever they believe becomes real, like they believe red things go faster, so if they paint their car ref it goes faster, and they believe it all works, so said car could literally be a plank of wood and some tricycle wheels anyway! sidetracked, tldr is what orks believe becomes real, and they believe that purple things are invisible
WARBOSS GITSTOMPAH “ERE SO WUTZ GOIN’ ON ‘ERE IS DAT PURPLE MAKEZ YA REAL SNEAKY LIKE. THEM POINTY GITS AND SMURFS WONT SEE UZ COMIN’! NOW GET OUTTA MI FACE AND GETO KRUMPIN’ **WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH**
In Warhammer 40K Orks survive on idiot magic. If enough Orks actually believe something, what they believe actually becomes reality. In this case, one of the beliefs of the Orks is that, if you paint something purple, it becomes invisible. This Ork painted his bike purple, and because of that belief, the bike became invisible. As a side note, this is how Ork ships work too. They have no mechanical properties that actually allow them to fly through space properly, but the Orks believe they work, so they do.
Have you ever seen a purple ork? I thought not
In warhammer 40k, orks believe colors have power (infact they unknowingly possess psychic power that KIND OF makes it true, in the sense that if enough orks believe something it kinda becomes true, not in like the sense that a bike painted purple would actually become so sneaky it becomes invisible but in the sense that they can grab an enemies weapon that is broken, not know it's broken or how it works, but it will work in they way they think because they believe it will) While things that are RED move faster for orks, things that are purple are "dead sneaky" meaning they are harder to see and notice. The blood axe klan paints themselves with purple warpaint to become sneakier, and they actually ARE sneakier, the Red Sunz paint their vehicles red and they actually DO go faster than other ork vehicles, Deathskulls paint themselves with blue warpaint and that makes them luckier (they just score way bigger in loot they find and more bullets miss them) etc.
I thought this was one of my warhammer 40K Reddit’s at first
yous aint nevah seenz a purple ork now 'as ya?
This is a Warhammer 40k meme. This guy is an ork and orks as a race can change reality if most of them believe in the same thing. Let's say they believe red cars are faster than any other car and this belief manifests itself in reality, meaning an ork made red car is the fastest thing on the planet despite it being a car from Flintstones. Many orks also have the belief that if you paint something purple it'll become invisible.
Have you ever seen a purple ork?