The great grot uprising

For the orks, the war on Hexis had always been a mercenary affair. A chance for fighting and a chance for growing their "teef" collections. However as conditions on Hexis deteriorated and their chaos overlords became less and less interested in the campaign, the fighting became less and less organised. The orks, never interested in defence, began launching their own uncoordinated assaults on whatever enemy they could find, which increasingly ended in disaster as the independent roving greenskin warbands were cut down by the imperium, the tyranids or even the necrons. By 04.020M42 the ork forces were dwindling, but there was no way off the planet.

While this state of affairs didn't particularly bother the orks, the grots, effectively enslaved by their bigger kin, were growing worried. If the orks kept getting massacred what would happen to them? How would they escape this hell hole and help the ork race elsewhere? The grots began discussing the problem amongst themselves, and this discussion started to become alarm as their ork overlords became fewer and fewer.

The grots decided to solve the situation in the only way they knew how. Seeing the chaos forces as the root of the problem, and their larger kin unable to overcome the remaining worshippers of the dark gods, the grots armed themselves. Helped by the extra time they now had not waiting on as many orks, the grots built themselves their own army, then openly challenged their chaos employers to come and fight them. At first, the sight of thousands of diminutive greenskins dressed in ill fitting armour or clanking around in frankly ridiculous mechanical constructs gave the chaos forces a great deal of amusement as they shambled across the shattered plains of Hexis.

The laughter began to tail off however, as the chaos lords slowly realised just how numerous this horde was. Suddenly the grots stopped shambling and charged at the first chaos warband - formerly part of the Claws of Lorek - as the rest of the chaos army looked on in confusion. The chaos warband itself was paralysed in shock and disbelief that these ork slaves were actually intending to attack them, but it wasn't a dream.

The grot army slammed into the chaos army and swarmed all over them. Meanwhile grots suddenly appeared in the enemy camps, slitting the throats of many chaos generals and generally spreading confusion and disarray amongst the chaos forces. With the forces of Lorek completely overwhelmed, the rest of the chaos army beat a hasty retreat, abandoning the outskirts of Praxis and withdrawing to the relative safety of the denser ruins. The great grot uprising had begun.