The two Big Meks had been smacked hard enough to hurt. They clutched their heads and looked at Cheng Mingrui with wounded expressions.
Left with no choice, Dio said, "I-I reckon Boss Slick's Ship sounds dead fierce and imposing."
"Huh?!" This time, Cheng Mingrui looked like an old man squinting at a phone. You lot have got to be messing with me.
"I reckon Boss Slick's Ship is a good name too. Just hearing it sounds imposing and fierce, like Gork and Mork." Kidd backed Dio up, which surprised Cheng Mingrui even more. These two were still rivals who constantly undermined each other.
"Exactly. Enterprise? Natural Selection? What even are those? They don't sound wild, badass, or swaggering at all. Next to Boss Slick, they're nothing!" Dio said with complete conviction.
Cheng Mingrui began to doubt his own taste... Feeling a little less sure of himself, he asked several more Boyz. They all thought Boss Slick's Ship was a good name, one that sounded downright invincible.
Cheng Mingrui realized he had a blind spot in his thinking. Orks did not think giving yourself a badass name made you badass. You were the badass one, not the name. Because you were badass, things named after you became badass too.
Take Commissar Yarrick's nickname, Old One Eye. At first hearing, it did not sound particularly impressive, but that did not stop the Orks from thinking it was badass. Later, Old One Eye really did become more and more badass.
Eventually, Cheng Mingrui accepted it himself. His various exploits seemed to have taken root in the Boyz's minds. Instinctively, they associated Boss Slick with wildness, badassery, swagger, and every kind of invincibility.
That was the logic behind Ork Warbosses growing stronger and stronger. With the Boyz thinking about them every day, how could