Compendium

Dahak

Little is known about the origins or homeworld of the Dahak. Scourge of humanity and destroyer of the Second Terran Empire, the first Dahak incursion occurred on the fringes of imperial space in a region ruled by insignificant great houses barely suitable to carry that name. Predictably, the core worlds ignored the situation until the invades had established a foothold and their containment was no longer possible.

The majority of Dahak are mindless drones whose only purpose is consumption and reproduction with no signs of higher brain function. Once inserted into an ecosystem, they quickly devour both the local life forms and each other.

In direct contradiction to their dominate biology, one in several hundred billion Dahak develop sentience and are hyper-intelligent. The higher forms appear to be highly cooperative. Imperial scientists believe there is a small collection of advanced worlds inhabited solely by sentient Dahak. All evidence points to the theory that the Dahak view the mass infestation of terran-like plants as a means of increasing their sentient population. The higher forms have yet to exhibit any desire for power, domination, or subjugation. Instead, other sentient life is viewed at the same level as their drones, biological fodder of of no consequence.