Ogryns would look almost farcical if not for their sheer size and aggressive temperament. However, their adaptations mean that, on their terms – those of fighting, eating and general survival – Ogryns have a great many advantages. In the most basic terms, Ogryns are stupid. As a result of generations of brutal survival and nothing else, in situations where higher reasoning was utterly unnecessary, the Ogryn brain is atrophied. Ogryns are not the most intelligent of creatures. Further, the already prodigious bulk of Ogryns is often enhanced by vast reserves of stored food, developed because few Ogryns know where or when the next meal will be coming from.Īll this, however, comes at a price. As a result, the Ogryn digestive system is rugged and efficient, able to derive nourishment from even the most unpalatable and inedible of organic substances. The worlds upon which Ogryns came to exist in the first place were comparatively barren, lacking in many of the foodstuffs that most humans take for granted. The other most notable facet of their evolution is their digestive system. All in all, the Ogryn is built to be able to fight and win against fierce predators, with only the most primitive and rudimentary of weaponry.
The average Ogryn stands between 2.5 and 3 metres tall, and are far bulkier and more muscular than humans, having a muscle mass to height ratio of about double that of a human being. The most obvious facet of this is their size. Their kind is the product of harsh, uncaring worlds with little food beyond competing predators and rugged herbivores. Harsh, cold, high-gravity worlds, commonly used as prison planets by the petty human star empires of ancient times, led to the development of human beings into Homo sapiens giganticus – better known as Ogryns.
Humankind colonised a vast range of worlds during the original expansions, and as can be expected, many of those worlds left their mark on the generations of people raised upon them.
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