Warhammer 40000. Codex: Drukhari

The Drukhari are a decadent race of alien tormentors and raiders. Once part of a galaxy-spanning empire, the Drukhari now indulge in every macabre passion their supreme intelligence can conceive. They consider themselves superior to the galaxy's other races, and suffer a gnawing sickness of the soul which only the suffering of others can fill. The ranks of the Drukhari are filled with fleet and agile warriors, each armed with weaponry designed to inflict maximum pain, and thorough their innate poise they raise their torturous form of war into a gruesome artform. Launching raids from their vast transdimensional realm on Commorragh, they strike throughout the galaxy, flotillas of anti-grav craft using hidden portals to conduct rapid hit-and-run attacks and procure fresh captives. These raids draw upon Commorragh's multitudinous factions--cartel-like Kabals, gladiatorial Wych Cults, nightmarish Haemonculus Covens and a host of mercenary gangs that prey upon the galaxy, sowing terror and anguish before them.