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Chaos Squats
History: Chaos Squats are highly regarded by the powers of Chaos for their combat prowess and their engineering abilities. Chaos Squats have long ago succumbed to the lure of Chaos, seduced by dreams of power and riches. In some cases, Squat home worlds were simply too close to the epicenter of the creation of the Eye of Terror and succumbed en masse to the chaos powers. Their entire worlds have been corrupted and instead of barren rock wildernesses they are covered in plains of bone, obsidian or flesh. Their sky screams and burns, and strange warped creatures fly through the air or wander the surface, feeding on each other. These hellish worlds of the Chaos Squats lie close to the Eye of Terror, that malevolent rift in the warp close to the galactic core. It is on these cursed worlds that the Chaos Squats have dwelt for centuries, burning in hatred at normal Squats and raiding their Holds.
Other Chaos Squats are mercenaries and cultists from mainstream Squat society. When they were found to have turned to Chaos, they were cast out of their home worlds, and inevitably were drawn to the Eye of Terror. Highly valued as they are, many of the successful mercenary bands were granted their own hell world in return for continued service and construction of war machines. Generally these are Crone worlds, and it is hard to know whether the Chaos Squats are more satisfied at the remnants of advanced technology left to investigate, or at the simple thought that they now own what was once part of the Eldar empire.
Much of the equipment used by the Chaos Squats would appear familiar to those accustomed to dealing with mainstream Squats, though generally it has been subtly changed both by the effects of Chaos, and simple pattern drift caused by the long separation of the two races. One notable exception is the lack of airships and gyrocopters. For reasons not entirely clear, but perhaps something to do with the hellish planets on which they live, the Chaos Squats seem to have eschewed all forms of aerial transportation. The Chaos Squats also design and build many of the daemon engines and war machines used by the forces of Chaos and have adopted a number of them for their own use.
The Chaos Squats are few in number, and make extensive use of both slaves and automatons to augment their numbers. Slaves are used both as labor and as part of their armed forces. Traditionally, the main source of slaves was the hobgoblins, distant relatives of the Ork race that have been warped and twisted by the effects of Chaos. For the last couple of centuries the Chaos Squats have been ranging much further a field for their slaves, and Humans, Eldar, Orks and others will all be found in their slave companies.
The Chaos Squats also use automatons of various types. Imperial pattern robots are in widespread use in Chaos Squat armies. So much so that they are often lead by field programmers who can rapidly adjust their programs according to the ebb and flow of the battle. The Chaos Squats also developed the android chassis to be used to house a minor demon. However, they find the resultant Chaos Android more trouble than it is worth. They do however utilize a manually controlled version of the Death Dealer as their primary battlefield transport with the android fully functioning.
Chaos Squats do not hate Orks, and are known to accompany Ork raids into loyal squat territory. However, they are not averse to taking Orks as slaves. The Chaos Squats bear hatred for normal, loyalist Squat society, and the feelings are mutual.
Hobgoblins: One of the green skinned fungoid races; Hobgoblins are quite close in genetic makeup to Gretchen, though both larger and more intelligent. They are both loathed and detested by all other green skins, who will go out of their way to kill them.
After forming the backbone of the Chaos Squat slave labor force for millennia, the Hobgoblins perform so much of the work in the Chaos Squat society that they have become essential. Today while technically still slaves, Hobgoblins are virtually a client race of the Chaos Squats. They have a degree of autonomy and are trusted by the Chaos Squats as much as any are. They form autonomous military units under the Chaos Squat command structure.
Hobgoblins do not have the clannish nature of the Orks, and do not go to war in huge mobs, but are able to fight in individual detachments.
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