These worlds are some of the oldest in the galaxy, formed when the laws of physics had yet to be stabilized. Squats were the descendants of humans who colonized the worlds around the galactic core in the far distant past. Of all the abhuman types, they most closely resembled humans. Squats (Homo sapiens rotundus) were short, stocky and tough abhumans. Imperial Guard commanders now have no authority over the Navy personnel transporting them and are forbidden from being able to command a navy force.
It was during these post-Heresy reforms that the Imperial Army was split into two organisations: the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Navy the link between them was severed. Many of these changes were made to ensure to no single individual would be powerful enough ever again to attempt to overthrow the ruling body of Imperium if he turned traitor. In the aftermath of the Horus Heresy many changes were made to the structure of the Imperial armed forces. Thousands of Army commanders took it upon themselves to carve themselves their own empires, with no loyalty to Horus or the Emperor, and it was centuries before the Imperium was reforged. The Imperial Army's subordination to the Astartes Legions led to the Imperial Army tearing itself apart in the Horus Heresy, when half of the legions rebelled against the Emperor, and took their Army regiments with them. Initially used as garrison forces, they were quickly pushed to the forefront of the Crusade. It is out of these forces that the Imperial Army was first formed. When the Emperor left Terra on the Great Crusade, it is said that he would expect the inhabitants of the worlds he conquered to maintain defenses and armed forces for their own safety, against internal rebellion and external invasion similar to the role of Planetary Defense Forces in the 41st millennium. These surviving units in time became referred to as the Old Hundred, and formed the initial nucleus of human soldiery at the very beginning of the Great Crusade. The genus of the armed force that was to become the Imperial Army was on Terra, in the form of the few Strife-era military formations that the Emperor allowed to continue in his service after the end of the Unification Wars. Following the events of the Horus Heresy, however, the Imperial Army was split into two organizations the Imperial Guard, and the Imperial Navy.
The Imperial Guard, as the standing human armed force of the Imperium, can trace its origin back to the days of the Great Crusade, several millennia ago, when it was a somewhat different organisation known as the Imperial Army.
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