Now that the freakout is out of the way, some more serious thoughts.
An Old One fortress world... Scary, but it offers even more potential than when we thought it was "just" a bio-lab. As has been said, if there's anywhere in the galaxy that a living population of Old Ones might be found, it'd be here...
And that has me thinking about the Ork infestation.
Because humans have been fighting Orks for, what, twenty-seven thousand years or so? And Eldar have been fighting Orks for much longer. And in all that time, no one has ever come up with a reliable way to commit fungicide.
But this is Avernus. If there's even one planet in the galaxy where a way to destroy Orkoid fungal infestation
might be found...
...or, dare I even think, take
control...
Okay that's just total pie in the sky. Anyway.
@Durin :
1. Does discussing the potential destruction of the Orkoid
ecosystem on Avernus, not just Orks as has already been talked about, give Ridcully the precog heebie-jeebies? If it does, that shuts down this entire line of questioning.
2. Has the Orkoid infestation been observed to vary in speed across the biomes it's spread to?
3. Have any Avernite toxins (or other dangerous substances or effects) been observed to be particularly effective against Orks or Orkoid life?
(I'm not looking for anything like a miraculous quick fix. Even if some line of research could be found I'd expect it to take centuries at a bare minimum. But we'll be living with feral Orks for a long, long time, we may as well study them.)
Okay, one last and definitely silly question.
4. In the history of the Imperium, has there ever been any success at domesticating Squigs, or do they inevitably turn on non-Orky masters?
