Urukor

Introduction:

The Urukor are an abhuman strain inhabiting the world of Dranosh that has - for all intents and purposes - formed a form of symbiosis with the local ork infestation with which they share the world. Everything from their physiology, biology, and culture have been shaped by the orks they have fought, with their eternal war with the greenskins serving as the catalyst for their own evolution into stronger, tougher and faster-breeding creatures.

History

During the Dark Age of Technology the humans that would become the Urukor were said to have hosted the warframes known to the modern Imperium as Imperial Knights, however it is said that in Urukor legend when the orks first invaded Dranosh the war saw these Knights sacrifice themselves to end the immediate threat. In the wake of this heroic sacrifice both the orks and the humans of Dranosh were plunged into a feral state, and there was then peace for a few human generations before the feral orks found a new Warboss and launched a crusade to wipe out the Dranoshi people.

Legends say the Dranoshi humans only survived that war due to the intervention of an alien race known to them as "The Exiled Ones" who landed on the world and immediately drew the orks' attention with their technology and apparent martial strength... For thousands of years following the arrival of the Exiled Ones the Dranoshi faced countless hordes of greenskins that would always be halted within moments of successfully killing them all by the mysterious xenos, always giving the Dranoshi time to breath and recover...