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|align=center|'''''The Squats have advanced our cause considerably over the millennia. On no other group of worlds has so much [[Dark Age of Technology|Dark Age]] technology survived, nor so much expertise been preserved.'''''

|align=center|'''''You people do well at war because you treat it as a religion. We do well because we treat it as a business. It is just a matter of outlook.'''''

|align=center|'''''On one side of me stand my [[Homeworld (Squats)|Homeworld]], [[Stronghold (Squats)|Stronghold]] and [[Brotherhood (Squats)|Brotherhood]]; On the other, my ancestors. I cannot behave otherwise than honourably.'''''

|align=center|'''''Do not underestimate the [[Squats]]. They survived for millennia cut off from the [[Imperium]] and assailed from all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to all.'''''

|align=center|'''''An Engineer travels light because it's easier. Instead of lugging several thousand tools around with you, get where you're going, look at the job, decide what tools you need, and make them on the spot. Far more practical.'''''

|align=center|'''''Do not think we bear you any ill-will. You were simply in the right place at the right time - or the wrong time from your point of view.'''''

'''''The nature of this device is not clear to me.'''''

'''''Well, shift your spanners and let's have a look at the thing.'''''

'''''Now, then.''''' ''continued the Squat, as much to himself as to the Adept.'' '' '''Hydroplastic power transmission, controls attached to a timer and what looks like an encoder, a pressure chamber at the centre, surrounded by...'''''

'''''If we remake this join...''''' ''he began, enthusiastically. The Squat laid a restraining hand on his arm.''

'''''I really wouldn't recommend it.''''' ''he said.'' '' '''You see, I interpret this device as an unusually complex plasma bomb, and that cable you're holding goes direct to the arming mechanism.'''''

'''''Revered Ancestor''''', he said,'' '' '''what is our best course in this situation?'''''

'''''I have seen this but once before''''''', he began.'' '' '''Six hundred years before your birth, your revered ancestor [[Warlord (Squats)|Lord]] [[Thyngrim]], whose name you bear in your turn, was on the world of [[Dioscis Theta]]. I was younger then, undistinguished amongst the mass of the [[Brotherhood (Squats)|Brotherhood]].'''''

'''''And how did Lord Thyngrim win the day?''''' ''asked the Warlord with some impatience. The [[Ork]]s were getting closer. The Living Ancestor shook as he chuckled, a sound like pebbles clacking together.''

'''''I cannot tell you how to win as he did''''''', he said,'' '' '''But if you don't mind uncomfortable truths, I can tell you how to avoid losing as he did.'''''<br>

|align=center|'''''So [[Grunhag]] led his host to [[Wyss]],'''''<br>'''''Encamped upon the plain of [[Swend]].'''''<br>'''''Proud [[Hargan]] and rich [[Erlach]] fell,'''''<br>'''''Destroyed and ravaged and defiled.'''''<br>'''''"You see my power" Grunhag quoth,'''''<br>'''''"Let [[Imbach]] see and quake in fear,'''''<br>'''''And pay me treasure, wealth and slaves."'''''<br>'''''He added with a sneer.'''''<br>

'''''Lord [[Uri]] sat in Imbach's hall,'''''<br>'''''His brow as hard as knotted flint.'''''<br>'''''"No Ork shall take our folk as slaves,'''''<br>'''''Nor what we win from laden rock,'''''<br>'''''While one in Imbach still draws breath."'''''<br>'''''He told proud Grunhag "Nothing here'''''<br>'''''Is yours except an Ork-shaped hole,'''''<br>'''''And headstone with your name."'''''<br>

'''''Called Imbach to the vain [[Eldar]],'''''<br>'''''"Your enemy is at our gates.'''''<br>'''''Come to our aid against your foes,'''''<br>'''''Together let us lay them low."'''''<br>'''''The Eldar never made reply,'''''<br>'''''But left fair Imbach to the Orks.'''''<br>'''''"We fight alone, then" Uri said,'''''<br>'''''"Our friends leave us to die".'''''<br><br>from ''[[The Fall of Imbach]]''

|align=center|'''''Of all the races of the universe the Squats have the longest memories and the shortest tempers. They are uncouth, unpredictably violent, and frequently drunk. Overall, I'm glad they're on our side!'''''<br>- Report to the [[Imperial Guard]] High Command ([[Thuro]])

|align=center|'''''Squats have long memories and never forget an act of treachery or a broken promise. The relationship between the [[Homeworld (Squats)|Homeworlds]] and the [[Imperium]] has always been strained, and the history of the two peoples is studded with bouts of war and ill-feeling. Squats are not diplomatic by nature, their brutal manners and fierce tempers do not always inspire confidence in men. [[Eldar]] regard them as little more than beasts and only barely preferable to [[Ork]]s. But the Squats care little for the effete ways of men or the mincing delicacies of the Eldar. Squats are robust in body and bluff in manner, and consider other races fragile and lacking in the good, honest Squat virtues of comradeship and directness.'''''