A meteor is falling on Izanagi, jewel of the Yamato system, and there is only one outcome: extinction for every man, woman and child on the world. But it is not the impact that will cause this untold destruction, it is the meteor's cargo: a horde of vicious orks, ready to rampage across the planet. A cunning general lays a trap for the monstrous greenskins, but can any plan survive contact with the orks?