Twin Knights Take the Field

The Gretchin mobilized fast. One group scrounged steel pipes, another found sheet metal, while others brought capacitors and screws.

Thousands of wrench-wielding Gretchin swarmed around a steel frame in a junk heap, chattering as they built a massive metal skeleton in just a few days.

Small Gretchin, big ideas. The Gorkanauts stood about fifteen meters tall, so the Bootlicker Gorkanaut had to be bigger. They made it sixteen!

And just as the Gorkanauts resembled Gork and Mork, the Bootlicker Gorkanaut's steel exterior resembled Gretchin Majek.

It had his scheming face, two arms packed with weapons, and a pair of distinctive plastic wings!

The project fired up every Gretchin. If Gorkanauts could send Ork morale soaring, their own giant could do the same for them!

Meanwhile, the number of Gretchin who believed in Big Gretchinism kept growing until they had spread across nearly the entire world!

Big Gretchinists controlled every Mushroom Field, and they killed most of the Orks that crawled out.

As a result, the Industrial World's Gretchin and Squig populations surged, while the number of Ork Boys began to fall.

Not enough time had passed for anyone to notice. There were still plenty of Ork Boys.

But after one or two major battles against humanity, with heavy casualties and no reinforcements, the Orks would discover they were short on troops!

Those battles were coming soon.

As the Gretchin eagerly built the Bootlicker Gorkanaut, Li Qinwu prepared to recruit support and launch nuclear missiles.

The Industrial World's production lines could turn out nuclear weapons on an assembly line, from low-yield tactical warheads to massive bombs capable of devastating dozens of kilometers.

Human nuclear weapons were advanced. Nuclear Shells, which saw particularly widespread use, produced relatively clean reactions and left little radiation behind.

Even regimental officers had authority to use Nuclear