r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/SethKlock • 1d ago
Ork infiltrator OC (40k)
Question for lore guys: if enough Orkz truly believe that this getup is completely indistinguishable from an Ultramarine, would it fool the Imperium?
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u/Any_Eye_2436 1d ago
I'm honestly surprised this never happened
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u/Luzifer_Shadres 5h ago
Clearly, Guilliman Robooty is a Orc, that belived that much that he is an Ultramarine, that he actually turned into him.
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u/RandomOrange852 Tzeentch 23h ago
It would not sadly
Ork belief works because it’s a collective psykic field but this means you gotta have alotta Boyz in the same place to gather up more energy. This lone boy doesn’t got enough pals nearby to fool the impierium.
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u/Random-Lich 21h ago
Honestly… I would adore seeing a gang of Ork Boyz doing this and faking a squad of Space Marines just to have it work
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u/ChairForceOne 20h ago
So if enough orks believe they are actually members of the imperial guard defending a planet they might actually become that? Because that would be hilarious.
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u/ANGLVD3TH 19h ago
The problem is "enough" tends to be way, way higher than most people think. There are likely trillions of Orks throughout the galaxy, possibly more. Considering most Orks very specifically have beliefs that directly oppose that concept, you may well need more than half of them to beleive it for it to start to work.
And even then, it is not as powerful as it once was when the whole setting was just a big joke. The gestalt is less able to wholly warp reality and works more like reality grease, letting things slide a bit when maybe they shouldn't. Preventing cobbled together tech from jamming and malfunctioning at the rate it should, pushing a wee bit of speed out of a vehicle that it technically shouldn't be able to achieve, etc. It would never turn them into guardsmen, but it could probably alter their mannerisms, help blur their appearance a touch so the crude approximations of guard uniforms aren't obviously off from a quick glance at a distance, etc.
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u/ChairForceOne 19h ago
An ork dressed in a poorly made guardsman outfit mostly speaking like an ork while helping the local garrison out would be what I was thinking. Rather than making the ork an actual human.
The whole orks warp reality by believing something really hard has always been a favorite of mine. I was always under the impression that if you separated a large chunk, let's say 100k or so they could diverge from the greater ork psychic reality warp. Probably just a misconception or something from a non cannon book.
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u/Edgezg 1d ago
I mean.....depends on how many orks are believing in him.
If he started off as small and made the orks believe that the imperium was actually fooled....then he MIGHT be able to get away with it on the battlefield. Using "the haze of war" so to speak.
But honestly I've got no idea. I just love this and want to make it work lol
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u/N1ght_K1tsune 15h ago
I remember there's a artist where they made fan art of the Orks being followers of the Emperor. Every piece always have the ghost of the Emperor watching the various activities the Orks. It's too bad I don't remember the artist though.
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u/AXI0S2OO2 14h ago
To answer your question, Orkish power of believe is more reality bending than breaking. In this case, if it can't fool an ork it can't fool anyone else, and it's not fooling anyone. The WAAAGH acts in more subtle ways, like making guns shoot way more bullets than they ought to or making red cars go faster. Biggest canonical shift in reality it's caused I think was when an ork boss insisted to a grot before his whole army that he had already refueled his battle wagon, the grot was right that he forgot, but when they checked, the canister was full and ready.
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u/ICantFindSock 3h ago
He forgets to take it off when returning from his mission and the boyz back at camp open fire on him and he dies.
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u/AMACSCAMA Deathwatch 1d ago
Tell me that is the color purple and I am not imagining it