Squats

Squats are a race which are descended from humans who colonized the high gravity worlds at the centre of the galaxy. Due to having to live in tunnels beneath the surface of these dead worlds and the high gravity the Squats evolved to be short and stocky. The Squats occupied a semi-autonomous confederation known as The Homeworlds, and had true engineers, in contrast with the dogma-bound humans of the Adeptus Mechanicus. In war, the Squats used squads of motorcycles supported by massive artillery barrages from outlandishly large superheavy tracked vehicles such as the Land Train, Colossus, Leviathan, and Cyclops.

The Squats carry grudges for millennia, and none so strongly as for the Orks, who betrayed the Squats on more than one occasion and inflicted many losses upon them in war. It appears that the Squats were almost entirely wiped out by the Tyranids, though presumably those who were in the interior of the Imperium of Man remain extant, surely harboring a truly heroic grudge against the Tyranid Hive Mind.

''It has been theorized that the Demiurg are a possible revitalisation of the "Space Dwarf" concept.

Despite this, many other model making companies have been producing space dwarf models for a long time and some players have even converted the rules of Warhammer 40K to allow them to play. However popular this trend has proven to be, the official ruling from Games Workshop is that only 40K races can be used in 40K.''