[@BCTheEntity] By Ork standards, he is big. A bit larger than the average nob, he's still not war-boss size. He's bigger than an unarmed space marine, but mostly just by sheer bulk, not exclusively height. If Lucius had never encountered an ork before, than Urgrugg would just confirm the notion that they are about space marine size. If he has, then Lucius would probably think that he's a kind of big ork, but not as big as they get.

The reason it's odd that he (Lucius) is not more gung-ho about killing Urgrugg is because orks have been a thing since well before the Horus Heresy. Standing orders are generally kill on sight because orks spore, meaning where you see one ork, there eventually Will be more. Add that to the fact that ork are somehow naturally attracted to the presence of other ork and tend to randomly show up where ork are fighting, and you can see how they tend to become a bigger problem very quickly. What makes Urgrugg unique is that none of that applies to him, because he's been cut off from the ork gestalt field. However, Lucius has no way of knowing that. In fact, no one on the ship does, except maybe, Maybe, Zuriel... and that's only because Tzeentch might get a hair up the ass he may or may not have, and tell Zuriel how to perform a ritual to acquire that knowledge.


[@Klomster] Actually, Urgrugg's 'instincts' are mostly intact. It's not the gestalt field that grants them the knowledge of how to do things. That knowledge is written into their DNA. Urgrugg's DNA, while chaos corrupted and mildly mutated, is still mostly ork. Though a mutant ork, an ork is what he still is. He has been taught the 'correct' way to use warp magic, but when things get tight he falls back on his instincts to manipulate warp energy. That's when things get messy... like when he teleported part-way through a bulk head. You know, when he and Zuriel first met.

Also, it is Entirely possible to travel through the warp without a gellar field. We just have to be quick about it. Grey knights and warp spiders do it all the time, and both are massive targets in the warp. If we cloaked a ship in wards and runes to keep us low-key and flew really f*cking fast, we could probably get a minute of warp travel in without any major issue. That alone would be enough time to get us well away from the battle.