Editing Saruthi (section)

==Overview==
[[Image: Saruthi.jpg|thumb|right| Their official illustration. Kind of resemble the titular alcohol-allergic alien predators which landed off the coast of Northern Ireland in the film "Grabbers".]]
The Saruthi are an ancient race, and prior to the rise of the [[Imperium]] they held a small empire of about forty worlds. At some indeterminate point in history the Saruthi made first contact with humanity in the form of [[Chaos Cults|some poor, persecuted humans of a maligned minority religion]] who were fleeing human space. These pilgrims blundered into Saruthi space and brought with them the Necroteuch, a powerful reservoir of [[Chaos]] knowledge. Translation efforts went underway and soon the Saruthi had a version of their own.

The Saruthi saw the arcane knowledge contained within the Necroteuch as their means to fend off the much more powerful Imperium. While the Saruthi civilization did indeed survive (after a fashion), the Necroteuch extracted a horrific price. The Saruthi were far more susceptible to the artifact's corruption than their human counterparts; its effect on them was so powerful that their souls, minds, and even their genetic codes were irrevocably altered. A civil war also erupted, although it is unclear whether this was a Chaos-driven power struggle or whether some of the Saruthi finally realized that the price of using the Necroteuch was too high to pay. In the end, it mattered not; the Saruthi empire was drastically diminished. And while the Necroteuch had taught them how to bend reality itself, the remaining Saruthi were reduced to [[Grimdark|twisted, mutated, vile creatures.]]

What remained of the Saruthi civilization survived in this manner until the end of the 41st millennium. In a final cruel twist of fate, it was their possession of the Necroteuch (and by extension, their exposure to Chaos) that eventually drew the Imperial Inquisition's attention and led to the destruction of what was probably the only inhabited planet they had left.