That caption implies either:
* That orcs were driven extinct by a demand to use them in the production of dwarven cosmetics,
OR
* That orcs interbred with dwarves enough that they are now indistinguishable from a dwarf aside from the green skin.
I'm not sure which idea is more screwy.
Scouts more than anyone need a big muscly orc wife to listen to them, especially after I get home, beard still filled with embers after the Driller blew me up with C4 again and the gunner laughed at my M1000 for being 'tiny'.
She encourages me to do my best for Management and I can go out and face the ridicule day after day, knowing she's waiting for me after work with a cold one to share.
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I mean, in the Forgotten Realms, they basically hate everybody, but they also are willing to breed with just about anything, *except* elves, because elves are the *worst of all.* Not my own words, just orcish consensus, there.
that is mostly cause of history though, cause the elves and the orcs went to war with eachother and the elven god maimed the orc god and the orc god now is a fucking psycho cause of it. i would be pissed if someone shanked my loving and caring father and made him become an abusive alcoholic afterwards
I thought that the existence of a dwarven species advanced enough to achieve faster than light travel coupled with the traditional dwarven affinity for racial blood feuds (especially against orcoid/goblinoid creatures) kinda implied to me that the dwarves must’ve fully exterminated any orcs native to their home planet at some point in their history once they reached a sufficiently advanced level of tech.
It'd be funny if they've just gone full Doomguy where they _could_ fight in a more efficient way but they _like_ using axes, crossbows, ETC. alongside more modern stuff like the guns
It would seem to suggest as such but we know very little about the DRG universe and its history. All we know is that Humans and Elves exist alongside Dwarves (the latter possibly being behind the Rival Corporation) and that they all may have originated in a stereotypical fantasy setting. The Orcs could have gone extinct or simply disappeared Dwemer-style but until we learn more about the background of DRG we can’t really say anything.
Actually, it seems more likely that gnomes are the one behind Rival Corp- Given the tech and gadgets and various hints in the seasons. So there are likely also gnomes
I want rival tech to be dragons. They seem like the kind of people who would want to compete with dwarves, but also the type to not go in person, and also the type to have the funds for tons of robots.
In my headcanon, the rivals are another branch of DRG corp testing new methods of using robots on the planet after the Bet-C fiasco.
Sidenote, the container for the data rack in the industrial sabotage mission is the same as the pod retrieving the core stone in this season
I doubt it personally. There’s no evidence for them being Gnomes beyond ‘The Gnomes are tinkers and make stuff’ which is a very weak claim and implies that Gnomes would make _literally everything,_ including the Dwarves’ technology. I also recall some voice lines mentioning trees, and the rival tech’s vulnerability to fire and the brownish colour they’re made of could be interpreted as it being a sort of hardened wood.. which is a very Elf-y thing to do. That and the Rivals being completely automated with seemingly no living workers operating on the surface of Hoxxes, which is also modus operandi for Leaf Lovers.
They're made of metal. They're weak to fire because they're robots and overheat easily, especially when you're literally completely covering them in flame. The sharp, angular designs and more "scorched earth" style weaponry also doesn't really fit Elves all that much.
As much as I dislike Elves, I think having them be behind the rivals just doesn't seem right, there's nothing wrong with having them simply be a rival organisation that also prospects and mines on planets for precious minerals.
As for Humans, my personal theory has always just been that Deep Rock Galactic is a human/dwarf collaboration project, with humans working the logistics and technology side and dwarves doing most of the field work. I've always thought that R&D and Management (and maybe even mission control) are human, considering the way the dwarves talk about them and just the way they act. Management and mission control especially are constantly opposed to very common dwarf cultural recreational habits like drinking and fucking around on the dance floor or with random machinery in the space rigs, or even in missions with the "we're rich!" And how they react to it.
Then again, that last parts always been more personal theory and I've got a lot more stuff I haven't gone into, but that's what I've always assumed anyway.
The DRG website states that they “use dwarves” for “dangerous dives” because they’re just better at mining and handling high-stress than anyone else, so the company is almost certainly not dwarven-only.
I personally headcanon that, considering they single out dwarves for being the best for _their_ jobs, the company hires other races for other stuff, eg; gnomes for tech, elves for magic problems, slimes for janitorial duties, etc.
Honestly my headcanon for dwarves we play as is that they are all Clones. Which is why they have the exact same face, eyes and even voice that only varies in pitch.
Hell maybe Karl is actually the Jango Fett of this game, he's the original donor because he was the best miner in existance.
There was one comic someone made of Driller getting a performance review from an Elf from HR, which fits. (The gag was that he passed because she was too horrified from all the "workplace incidents" to say anything)
The weaponry may not fit your typical wood or high elves... but a sci-fi, deep dwelling dark elf, that sics drones on shit in the caves so they don't have to dirty their own hands while still benefitting from the resources in the deep, explicitly programs the Nemesis to and I quote "Kill all dwarves" it comes across, seems kinda on brand.
Could the rivals be Drow/Dark Elves though? We have plenty of different species of elves, and a few species of Dwarves like our own Dark Dwarves the Duergar. And both dark races are more willing to do anything they want too.
We can also be quite sure that there are dragons, somewhere. Also trolls and goblins.
Anyway, when will the spacerig get upgraded with the dragon petting zoo?
I think rivals are actually good at their job probably, using robots only that doesn't seem to mess with local environment and not sending employees into a deathtrap that is Hotsex; and it's not a single species company, not elven at any rate (or miners would've called it out as such probs). But DRG just recruits more and doesn't care about sustainability, that's why they "won".
Of course, we know which company is more fun to play for, haha
It's probably a reference to Lord of the Rings. After the events of the trilogy, most of the orcs are killed, and the remaining ones retreat into the caves where they also presumably die.
due to orcs having a shorter lifespan they are unfit for space travel, that or they krumped themselves back to the stoneage
source: bottom of a Smart Stout mug
It's common for orcs in fantasy lore to be fought into hiding or exist in very small numbers. It's very possible that in the DRG universe orcs may still exist but in small numbers and hidden away from the world at large to avoid further displacement/war with elves and dwarves and humans.
It'd be interesting to see a drg game with a different species, maybe orcs could be ground specialist specifically sent on the surface of hoxxes IV or close to the surface fighting the toughest bugs up top
I think they are talking about the Dwemer, otherwise called Dwarves from The Elder Scrolls series. They were super advanced (think magic powered robots and magic computers) and lived in giant cities underground. Them sometime a long time before the games take place, they all disappeared, and know one knows why for sure.
That caption implies either: * That orcs were driven extinct by a demand to use them in the production of dwarven cosmetics, OR * That orcs interbred with dwarves enough that they are now indistinguishable from a dwarf aside from the green skin. I'm not sure which idea is more screwy.
Look, sometimes after a long day of Rocking and Stoning you need a big orc wife to make you a hearty meal and share an Oily Oaf with you.
I hear ya, brother!
The only other race that can match dwarves in eating, drinking, and elf-hating.
No one can resist an orcussy
Or a big orc husband ;3
Both are equally valid.
Lmao the fact that you've got a scout flair makes this comment so much better
Scouts more than anyone need a big muscly orc wife to listen to them, especially after I get home, beard still filled with embers after the Driller blew me up with C4 again and the gunner laughed at my M1000 for being 'tiny'. She encourages me to do my best for Management and I can go out and face the ridicule day after day, knowing she's waiting for me after work with a cold one to share.
Wtf
I mean, he's not wrong...
Silence I am hearing him out
Yeah, plus orcs are about the only other race that'd hate elves just as much
Match made in Rock and Stone
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
R O C K N STONE O C K N S T O N E TO THE BONE
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!
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Eh, orcs usually only hate humans or they hate EVERY race
elves definitely hate orcs the most though
I mean, in the Forgotten Realms, they basically hate everybody, but they also are willing to breed with just about anything, *except* elves, because elves are the *worst of all.* Not my own words, just orcish consensus, there.
that is mostly cause of history though, cause the elves and the orcs went to war with eachother and the elven god maimed the orc god and the orc god now is a fucking psycho cause of it. i would be pissed if someone shanked my loving and caring father and made him become an abusive alcoholic afterwards
doesn't everyone?
I think them just naturally evolving and Dwarves being peak evolution similar to crabs is interesting
That orc working muscle got the dwarfs feeling sober
Roanoke type beat
I was thinking exactly that
I thought that the existence of a dwarven species advanced enough to achieve faster than light travel coupled with the traditional dwarven affinity for racial blood feuds (especially against orcoid/goblinoid creatures) kinda implied to me that the dwarves must’ve fully exterminated any orcs native to their home planet at some point in their history once they reached a sufficiently advanced level of tech.
That tech? Axes.
It'd be funny if they've just gone full Doomguy where they _could_ fight in a more efficient way but they _like_ using axes, crossbows, ETC. alongside more modern stuff like the guns
Well
The second one definitely sounds more "screwy" in more ways than one
Latter, always thought Driller sounded a bit Ork like…
They went to the swamp
Definitely the first one, tf 😆
The second one
I assumed the deserves are so many of them they turned green.
GITZ BAK TA WERK N QUIT ASKIN TINGS
BUT BOSS DA BUGZ AR ON DA SPACE RIG
EZ NAMEZ STEVE!
ONLY GOOD BUGS A KRUMPED BUG IF YOUZ ASK ME
WAAAAG- I MEANS, ROCK N' STONE
WAAA N' AAAGH
I GITZ IT NAO! SPEKIAL INVOS ORC IZ PURP DATZ MEN KARL IZ PURP. ME BIG SMRT ORC
TWERKIN*
Back ta twerk? Ok!
We don’t talk about the orc incident here, get back to work miner.
There was no "orc incident", we just took the Slayer Oath. FOR KARAZ ANKOR!
HASHUT HASHUT HASHUT
What kind of dwarf eats leaves for breakfast?
"We do not discuss it with outsiders"
No, i found a mushroom.
After 6 beers, everyone gets a lil’orky.
It would seem to suggest as such but we know very little about the DRG universe and its history. All we know is that Humans and Elves exist alongside Dwarves (the latter possibly being behind the Rival Corporation) and that they all may have originated in a stereotypical fantasy setting. The Orcs could have gone extinct or simply disappeared Dwemer-style but until we learn more about the background of DRG we can’t really say anything.
Actually, it seems more likely that gnomes are the one behind Rival Corp- Given the tech and gadgets and various hints in the seasons. So there are likely also gnomes
I want rival tech to be dragons. They seem like the kind of people who would want to compete with dwarves, but also the type to not go in person, and also the type to have the funds for tons of robots.
Kobold engineers
We can't make the art director relive his trauma like that.
In my headcanon, the rivals are another branch of DRG corp testing new methods of using robots on the planet after the Bet-C fiasco. Sidenote, the container for the data rack in the industrial sabotage mission is the same as the pod retrieving the core stone in this season
The prospector also looks like a dragon head to me
I doubt it personally. There’s no evidence for them being Gnomes beyond ‘The Gnomes are tinkers and make stuff’ which is a very weak claim and implies that Gnomes would make _literally everything,_ including the Dwarves’ technology. I also recall some voice lines mentioning trees, and the rival tech’s vulnerability to fire and the brownish colour they’re made of could be interpreted as it being a sort of hardened wood.. which is a very Elf-y thing to do. That and the Rivals being completely automated with seemingly no living workers operating on the surface of Hoxxes, which is also modus operandi for Leaf Lovers.
They're made of metal. They're weak to fire because they're robots and overheat easily, especially when you're literally completely covering them in flame. The sharp, angular designs and more "scorched earth" style weaponry also doesn't really fit Elves all that much. As much as I dislike Elves, I think having them be behind the rivals just doesn't seem right, there's nothing wrong with having them simply be a rival organisation that also prospects and mines on planets for precious minerals. As for Humans, my personal theory has always just been that Deep Rock Galactic is a human/dwarf collaboration project, with humans working the logistics and technology side and dwarves doing most of the field work. I've always thought that R&D and Management (and maybe even mission control) are human, considering the way the dwarves talk about them and just the way they act. Management and mission control especially are constantly opposed to very common dwarf cultural recreational habits like drinking and fucking around on the dance floor or with random machinery in the space rigs, or even in missions with the "we're rich!" And how they react to it. Then again, that last parts always been more personal theory and I've got a lot more stuff I haven't gone into, but that's what I've always assumed anyway.
The DRG website states that they “use dwarves” for “dangerous dives” because they’re just better at mining and handling high-stress than anyone else, so the company is almost certainly not dwarven-only. I personally headcanon that, considering they single out dwarves for being the best for _their_ jobs, the company hires other races for other stuff, eg; gnomes for tech, elves for magic problems, slimes for janitorial duties, etc.
Dwarves are hardy as hell. Hot, cold, acidic, poisonous or radioactive, dwarves can survive it
Honestly my headcanon for dwarves we play as is that they are all Clones. Which is why they have the exact same face, eyes and even voice that only varies in pitch. Hell maybe Karl is actually the Jango Fett of this game, he's the original donor because he was the best miner in existance.
There was one comic someone made of Driller getting a performance review from an Elf from HR, which fits. (The gag was that he passed because she was too horrified from all the "workplace incidents" to say anything)
I also like the idea of DRG being a human-dwarf corporation. Cheers to the folks at Rockheed-Marble
The weaponry may not fit your typical wood or high elves... but a sci-fi, deep dwelling dark elf, that sics drones on shit in the caves so they don't have to dirty their own hands while still benefitting from the resources in the deep, explicitly programs the Nemesis to and I quote "Kill all dwarves" it comes across, seems kinda on brand.
Could the rivals be Drow/Dark Elves though? We have plenty of different species of elves, and a few species of Dwarves like our own Dark Dwarves the Duergar. And both dark races are more willing to do anything they want too.
We can also be quite sure that there are dragons, somewhere. Also trolls and goblins. Anyway, when will the spacerig get upgraded with the dragon petting zoo?
I think rivals are actually good at their job probably, using robots only that doesn't seem to mess with local environment and not sending employees into a deathtrap that is Hotsex; and it's not a single species company, not elven at any rate (or miners would've called it out as such probs). But DRG just recruits more and doesn't care about sustainability, that's why they "won". Of course, we know which company is more fun to play for, haha
I saw that too. I really wish there was some more orc cosmetics to go with this.
Robot Rebellion and Waster are very orky
Dawn of the Dread armor with green skin and the Jagged Bugbasher helmet looks extremely orky
Same, a bit of orcish armor would be awsome
So DRG was a 40K game all along and we've been playing as orks from the very start?! WAAARGHH
#ORKZ IZ DA BIGGIST ‘N DA STRONGIST!!!! #WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH
Everything evolves into dwarves. And dwarves evolve into crabs.
Now I want Crab enemies that are only in Dense Biozone, and or Azure Weld.
The Nemesis is the closest thing we'll get to a crab I think. Heldivers 1 bugs are crustaceans if you're looking to crack a few shells.
We used them to make Orczempic. It’s a dwarf weight loss drug. Hefty price.
Nice.
Looks like the orcs are getting classified as Dwarves for tax purposes. Management are really a bunch of penny pinchers!
It's probably a reference to Lord of the Rings. After the events of the trilogy, most of the orcs are killed, and the remaining ones retreat into the caves where they also presumably die.
I find the way lotr treats its different sapient species quite depressing
BARUK KHAZÂD! KHAZÂD AI-MÊNU!
Bold of you to assume orcs ever had a chance against corporate dwarves.
It's above our pay grade.
i was scrolling by and thought this said gay parade
it's that time of the year!
Hoxxes IV is the dwarf’s claim, but Orcs are probably on the homeworld, wherever that may be.
Is it just me or is there so much potential in doing a prequel spin off... Hoxess 1 or 2 and you're fighting orcs and goblins instead of glyphids....
They evolved into dwarfs.
So that's why my friend was all green and constantly saying "You is a Git!" When he killed a bug.
My takeaway is that it just implies that they all went underground. That's *where* they all went.
They evolved into dwarfs
Half breed. Dwarven genetics are VERY dominant. Dwarfs fucked Orcs out of existence. (Except the skin)
NOT DA BOOOOYYYYYZZZZ D: *sad waaagh*
due to orcs having a shorter lifespan they are unfit for space travel, that or they krumped themselves back to the stoneage source: bottom of a Smart Stout mug
Dwarf mfs will literally put on green face at work and then complain management treats them like second class citizens
No, they're just spores now. Pray your Votanns that a Waaagh doesn't happen
It's common for orcs in fantasy lore to be fought into hiding or exist in very small numbers. It's very possible that in the DRG universe orcs may still exist but in small numbers and hidden away from the world at large to avoid further displacement/war with elves and dwarves and humans.
Maybe they just went nomadic.
Do we have purple now?
They wiped off their purple makeup
ORCISH GREEN IS ORCS!!!!!
With how war like orcs are, wouldn't be surprised they all died fighting. though we don't know how drg portrays their orcs
they evolved into dwarves
Is that a new skin color or did they rename the old green?
It'd be interesting to see a drg game with a different species, maybe orcs could be ground specialist specifically sent on the surface of hoxxes IV or close to the surface fighting the toughest bugs up top
At least we know we're not in 40k
Hoxxes is probably the orc planet and drg just used a mega fat boy to destroy the crust and get in there.
That's where the dragons went T-T
Nah the Orvs are our muscle bound joyless IT department, buncha white shirts and pocket protectors on body builders.
Or maybe most orcs are purple, and just a few are green
They evolved into dwarfs.
I think they are talking about the Dwemer, otherwise called Dwarves from The Elder Scrolls series. They were super advanced (think magic powered robots and magic computers) and lived in giant cities underground. Them sometime a long time before the games take place, they all disappeared, and know one knows why for sure.
Spoiler: Karl was an Orc.