Guy Haley’s short story Engine of Mork, while labelled as an Apocalypse story, is in fact the first glimpse of Evil Suns mek Uggrim and his Red Sunz mob. In the jungle of Garbax World Uggrim, Bozgat and Snikgob are happily working away building a stompa with the only distractions being the thieving Deathskulls getting in the way and slowing them down. When Warboss Grabskab sends one of his nobs to boss Uggrim around and ‘encourage’ them to get the stompa built quicker, that only fires Uggrim up to take things into his own hands.
As you might expect, this isn’t the story for insightful character development or poetic dialogue. It’s a story which leans heavily on the anarchic, madcap humour of watching orks squabble and fight anyone they can get their hands on, with an added dash of mekboy weirdness as Uggrim and his mates tap into their not-really-understood genetic knowledge of technology to build the biggest weapons they can make. There’s just the right amount of orkishness to the dialogue to be fun without being annoyingly silly, and the plot is fast and entertaining enough for this to be a great standalone story, but also a nice introduction to these characters.
Oh man. This makes me exited. What is the deal with Apocolypse stories tho? Are BL killing of 40K?
Nah, a few Apocalypse short stories were released several years back to tie in with the 40k supplement of the same name. This is a pretty old story, I’m just getting round to reading it now!