Warhammer 40k: G'mork

Unfortunately, my pitched race wasn't chosen, but we did choose an equally good race.  The whole idea is that orks developed an evolutionary trait where fungus would link them all together, allowing them better coordination and and sharing psyker abilities.

With more iteration, we developed the idea of a super ork, the very incarnation of the ork gods, that would lead this race.  This ork was meant be the ork that united all orks everywhere, the Emperor of Man kind of ork.  But then we remembered that these were the orks, and everything about them is over the top, so we decided to make this super ork a gretchen.

A gretchen is basically a space goblin, a subspecies of ork that is much smaller.  Gretchens function as meanial workers and are the lowest rung of ork society.  We figured that it would be hilarious if the ultimate Emperor of Orkkind was this little put-upon goblin.  His name was a fusion of Gork and Mork, the ork gods.  He is G'mork, avatar of Gork and Mork, both brutal and cunning.