>>115211036as the others have said, nanospores, son
they can generate their entire ecosystem through them, from the fungus they feed on, the creatures they use as tools and also as food, the goblin niggas they use as slaves and also as food, as well as the orks themselves. Plus skills like basic engineering is encoding into their dna
wipe out one WAAAGH and a few years later an entirely new population is likely to have sprung up from the spores the last one left behind
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why are we talking about 40k again?