In the Euronia System, the Orks on both Euronia III and Planet Four had been plunged into war. This time, their enemy was a traditional one: their fellow Orks.
Grom, Boss of the Snakebites, had led his fleet in an attack on the Euronia System. He had originally come chasing a Tyranid fleet, only to discover that the Tyranids were gone. Furious, he ordered all the Orks in the system to submit to him and acknowledge him as their Boss.
Clearly, after witnessing the Sneaky Boss's strength and ferocity, not a single Ork in the Euronia System thought Grom was fit to be their Boss.
Ork thinking was simple: if talking got nowhere, fight. And so the two Ork forces went to war, once again engulfing the Euronia System in flames.
The Orks Cheng Mingrui had left in the Euronia System were not a loose mob. They had a Boss, and a very unusual one at that: a Gretchin named Goldtooth.
Goldtooth was an ambitious fellow. From the very beginning, he had bred Shark Squigs capable of fighting underwater for Cheng Mingrui to win the Sneaky Boss's favor. As for Iron Claw, a Boss who was not strong enough had long since ceased to matter to him.
When Cheng Mingrui was preparing to leave, Goldtooth pushed every powerful Ork who could compete with him to board the ships. He even helped them build Gargants and supplied them with teef.
Sure enough, after Cheng Mingrui departed, only a bunch of newly grown little Orks remained in the Euronia System. None of them could compete with Goldtooth for the position of Boss.
Gretchin were Orks too, and they had dreams of their own. They wanted to become Bosses and lead the Boys on thrilling Waaagh!s. Even if their bodies were not up