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[WH40K] Could I befriend an Ork?

Alright, hear me out. I realize that, on a genetic level, he would want to hit me on the head with a club. But Orkz are still sentient organisms. They're intelligent, they have language, they have culture, they have emotions. Of the 1 trillion boyz out there, is it possible that I could go on awesome space adventures with one of them? Or does genetics trump any sort of intelligence 100% of the time?
gpt
Many humans are great friends of Orks, at least from the Orks' point of view. The most famous might be Commissar Yarrick - da Boyz love that guy.

You have to understand something that fundamentally underpins every single aspect of Orks, from their physiology to their culture to their individual personalities. Orks fight. They love to fight. They *live* to fight. They don't go to war out of hatred, or greed, or religious fervor. They go to war because they fucking love it.

If you took two Orks, best friends from the day they grew out of the ground, who'd been through thick and thin and back again, and stuck them on an empty planet together, they'd be at each other's throats within a week. Not out of treachery or because of an argument, but because *Orks fight*.

So sure, you could theoretically befriend an Ork (in the human sense of the word). It's not likely, because Orks are pretty much hard wired to kill anything that's not an Ork (and also Orks, but to a lesser degree), but it's possible. But due to the very nature of Orks, this friendship is only going to last as long as you can keep the Ork's shoota pointed at things that aren't you.

That being said, there are exceptions. Weirdboyz are notorious among Orks for their reluctance to fight and general un-orky cowardice. If you don't mind the significant risk of being consumed by warp energies, you might be able to form a somewhat conventional friendship with one of them. Also, Orks do have brains, and those brains can be damaged (or sometimes don't develop right), making them rather un-Orky in a number of ways. One such Ork might be inclined to tag along with you, although he probably won't be much of a conversationalist.