||Squat Homeworlds Isolated
||What will eventually become the Squat homeworlds near the galactic center are cut off from the rest of interstellar human society in the late 24th Millennium as large Warp Storms begin near the galactic core, preventing interstellar trade and communication. These worlds possessed unusually heavy gravity but were rich in strategic minerals needed by the interstellar human confederacy of the Age of Technology. Cut off for the next 5,000 Terran years from the rest of Mankind, the people of these worlds will adapt through both natural means and genetic engineering to their planets' local environmental conditions, becoming known as the Squats. This period sees the formation of the Squat Leagues.