The Squats (Homo sapiens rotundus), who refer to themselves as the "Kin," and are organized into a polity known as the Leagues of Votann, are short, stocky and physically hardy Abhumans, a subspecies of Humanity, who were on average 1.4 metres tall and were adapted to the heavy gravity conditions that predominated on the worlds they had settled near the core of the Milky Way Galaxy.