The Culture explores 40K II: Now With 100% more Fanfiction

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Studying Ork culture and especially their superstitions would probably also lead to the Culture discovering the existence of the Waaagh field and its effect on reality.

Then they think about it for a bit, then paint their ships red

SHINY BLUE. They need luck more than speed. And they would have to be near Orks and have Orks see the ship and then observably boast to lots of Orks that it is da luckiest ship evva, for it to work...

And convince the Orks that they have a bunch of Orks on board, so it is a looted ork ship. And thus should benefit from the color power thing. Even though, since it isn't really a looted ship, it isn't.

They could also use that effect to test the range and other capabilities of the waagh field via experimentation. Ie, when is it line of sight, how far away from Orks something works a particular way, how orky it has to look and act and seem for Orks to really believe it is theirs, and so the field applies, what the density of Orks does to the field, how leadership/ a warboss changes the field, etc. etc.