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two things

the first is the "race" of the squats, the space dwarves basically, they had their own worlds, history and technology, these squats no longer exist, they were not eaten by tyranids, they were just written out of the fluff and have never existed within the fluff in the current 40k.

then we have the re introduction of the squats ab humans, these are not the same, the lack the history, tech, fluff etc. of the originals and are just ab humans like ratlings, orgryns and beast men, a stable alternative human species.

Racerguy180 wrote:
Screw Jervis and his lame-ass response. They just chose to not develop them any further. GW had no problem doin it with space Elfs, Space Orks, etc... so WTF?

It really pisses me off when Kharadrons are basically Squats and aesthetically look kinda exactly like they should. If I remember my galactic geography correctly, the nids would be really close to Terra if they made it all the way to the Galactic core(where Squat homeworlds are). Even the great "squatting" was half-assed.

I thought the tyranids comment was from Ian watsons inquisition war series, the preamble in the omnibus?

 jhe90 wrote:
Eaten by nids and nommed into bio mass is one of more gerally apcepted theories..

There worlds where on the impirum edges and first to be hit by the hungry muchie monsters..

It is not a theory I am afraid, it is just factually incorrect, had GW written a series of novels or even ONCE referenced the squats in universe then maybe, but they essentially snapped them out of ever existing in the 40k universe, the Nids reference is from a pre amble to the inquisition war series of novels, themselves that are not actually part of the 40k universe anymore either it seems.