Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25177957-20140720052135/@comment-4851119-20140723144943

72.93.39.135 wrote:

...Okay what happened to these squats because one of you says they were taken of from the lore by virtue of being Tyranided, so they existed in the past, another says they still dwell amongst the worlds of men serving gaily in the Guard and shit, then there is Slug who says they have been properly erased from all lorehood. What is the truth? What happened to rocket Gimli? Well, originally they were a firm part of canon and has their own codex in Epic 40K. Later their army was removed but they remained in the lore; it was stated that Tyranids overran and nommed the Squat empire, driving them to near-extinction. Later on they were retconned out of canon completely (stories with Squat characters were re-written or de-canonized) but occasionally a writer can get a clever reference in. They were slowly worming their way back into canon for a while but IDK if that's still going on.