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'''Craftworlds''' are vast craft populated by [[Eldar]]. They travel through the void of space at sub-light speeds, carrying the greater remnant of the Eldar race after the [[Fall of the Eldar|Fall of their civilisation]]. Each Craftworld is a self-sufficient, independent realm with its own culture. Craftworlds are in many ways living entities, powered by psychic energy from its [[Infinity Circuit]] and responding in an organic way to the stimuli of psychic forces. The power within a Craftworld can be expended as light or heat, and most Craftworld technology could not function without this psychic power grid.{{Fn|13}}
 
[[Image:CraftworldArt7.jpg|thumb|right|350px|An Eldar Craftworld]]
 
[[Image:CraftworldArt7.jpg|thumb|right|350px|An Eldar Craftworld]]
'''Craftworlds''' are vast craft populated by [[Eldar]]. They travel through the void of space at sub-light speeds, carrying the greater remnant of the Eldar race after the [[Fall of the Eldar|Fall of their civilisation]]. Each Craftworld is a self-sufficient, independent realm with its own culture. Craftworlds are in many ways living entities, powered by psychic energy from its [[Infinity Circuit]] and responding in an organic way to the stimuli of psychic forces. The power within a Craftworld can be expended as light or heat, and most Craftworld technology could not function without this psychic power grid.{{Fn|13}}
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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As the final weeks leading to the cataclysm approached, the returning Craftworlds' crews founding their worlds in ruin. Taking with them any Eldar who still remained sane, the Craftworlds fled the Eldar civilisation.{{Fn|4}} Some Craftworlds were caught and consumed by [[Chaos]] along with the Eldar worlds as the [[Eye of Terror]] tore open reality, others survived for thousands of years before their people finally faded and died, while others endure to this day.{{Cite This}}
 
As the final weeks leading to the cataclysm approached, the returning Craftworlds' crews founding their worlds in ruin. Taking with them any Eldar who still remained sane, the Craftworlds fled the Eldar civilisation.{{Fn|4}} Some Craftworlds were caught and consumed by [[Chaos]] along with the Eldar worlds as the [[Eye of Terror]] tore open reality, others survived for thousands of years before their people finally faded and died, while others endure to this day.{{Cite This}}
  
===The Current Age===
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===The current age===
 
For thousands of years after the Fall to the current day, the Craftworlds have carried the greater part of the surviving Eldar. Craftworlds contain [[Webway]] gates, linking each other as well as to millions of planets, allowing the dispersed Eldar civilisation some measure of cohesion. Because the Webway is labyrinthine and impossible to map, many Craftworlds are effectively lost, unknown and cut off from the greater part of Eldar civilisation. They have grown greatly in size since the Fall, when they became the sanctuary worlds of the Eldar race. They are now approximately 10 to 100 times bigger in volume than they were before the Fall. Thus, Craftworlds are effectively worlds in space, each a self-contained biosystem, with forested and natural areas as well as urbanised ones. These natural areas provide a breathable atmosphere to the Craftworld and renewable resources.{{Cite This}} There are often sections that are uninhabited and awaiting reconstruction. Vast space docks located outside the Craftworld house [[Eldar Space Fleet|fleets of spacecraft]]. These fleets are capable of travelling through [[Warp]] tunnels, allowing Eldar of the relatively slow-moving Craftworld to bring their forces to areas of the galaxy thousands of light years distant.{{Fn|4}}
 
For thousands of years after the Fall to the current day, the Craftworlds have carried the greater part of the surviving Eldar. Craftworlds contain [[Webway]] gates, linking each other as well as to millions of planets, allowing the dispersed Eldar civilisation some measure of cohesion. Because the Webway is labyrinthine and impossible to map, many Craftworlds are effectively lost, unknown and cut off from the greater part of Eldar civilisation. They have grown greatly in size since the Fall, when they became the sanctuary worlds of the Eldar race. They are now approximately 10 to 100 times bigger in volume than they were before the Fall. Thus, Craftworlds are effectively worlds in space, each a self-contained biosystem, with forested and natural areas as well as urbanised ones. These natural areas provide a breathable atmosphere to the Craftworld and renewable resources.{{Cite This}} There are often sections that are uninhabited and awaiting reconstruction. Vast space docks located outside the Craftworld house [[Eldar Space Fleet|fleets of spacecraft]]. These fleets are capable of travelling through [[Warp]] tunnels, allowing Eldar of the relatively slow-moving Craftworld to bring their forces to areas of the galaxy thousands of light years distant.{{Fn|4}}
  
 
Every Eldar of a Craftworld is a highly trained warrior - in battle these citizen-soldiers are known as [[Guardian]]s, forming the Craftworld's defensive militia.{{Cite This}} Craftworlds are independent realms, sometimes acting mutually, combining military forces, acting together to achieve a common objective, and trading or exchanging knowledge. [[Exodite]]s often trade with the Craftworlds, but believe that the Craftworld Eldar are too close to the old ways of decadence for their own good. The militarily-stronger Craftworld Eldar grant some protection to Exodite Eldar.{{Cite This}}
 
Every Eldar of a Craftworld is a highly trained warrior - in battle these citizen-soldiers are known as [[Guardian]]s, forming the Craftworld's defensive militia.{{Cite This}} Craftworlds are independent realms, sometimes acting mutually, combining military forces, acting together to achieve a common objective, and trading or exchanging knowledge. [[Exodite]]s often trade with the Craftworlds, but believe that the Craftworld Eldar are too close to the old ways of decadence for their own good. The militarily-stronger Craftworld Eldar grant some protection to Exodite Eldar.{{Cite This}}
  
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[[Image:Iyanden.jpg|thumb|right|The exterior of Craftworld [[Iyanden]] ]]
 
It is known that the last [[Imperial]] assault against a Craftworld ended as a disaster at the [[Battle of the Blood Nebula]], which saw the loss of an entire sector fleet thus leading to the [[Imperium]] adopting the stance of dealing with individual threats of the Eldar rather than provoke an entire nest of them.{{Fn|5}}
 
It is known that the last [[Imperial]] assault against a Craftworld ended as a disaster at the [[Battle of the Blood Nebula]], which saw the loss of an entire sector fleet thus leading to the [[Imperium]] adopting the stance of dealing with individual threats of the Eldar rather than provoke an entire nest of them.{{Fn|5}}
[[Image:Iyanden.jpg|thumb|right|The exterior of Craftworld [[Iyanden]] ]]
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==Major Craftworlds==
 
==Major Craftworlds==
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*[[Alaitoc]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Alaitoc]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Biel-tan]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Biel-tan]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Saim-Hann]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Saim-Hann]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Ulthwé]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Ulthwé]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Altansar]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Iybraesil]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Il-Kaithe]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Lugganath]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Mymeara]]{{Fn|8}}
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*[[Yme-Loc]]{{Fn|1}}
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==Other Craftworlds==
 
==Other Craftworlds==
[[Image:Lunnagath Craftworld View.jpg|thumb|450px|[[Lugganath]] Craftworld View]]
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*[[An-Iolsus]] - Made an alliance with the Imperium against Chaos during the [[Gothic War]].
 
*[[An-Iolsus]] - Made an alliance with the Imperium against Chaos during the [[Gothic War]].
*[[Altansar]]{{Fn|1}}
 
 
*[[Arach-Qin]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Arach-Qin]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Aringhe]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Aringhe]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*The [[Black Library of Chaos|Black Library]]{{Fn|3}}
 
*The [[Black Library of Chaos|Black Library]]{{Fn|3}}
 
*[[Ctho]] - Known as "the legendary lost Craftworld"{{Fn|3}}
 
*[[Ctho]] - Known as "the legendary lost Craftworld"{{Fn|3}}
*[[Dolthe]]
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*[[Dolthe]]{{Fn|26}}
 
*[[Dorhai]] - Avoids contact with all other Craftworlds, believing themselves to be the only pure survivors of the Fall.{{Fn|3}}
 
*[[Dorhai]] - Avoids contact with all other Craftworlds, believing themselves to be the only pure survivors of the Fall.{{Fn|3}}
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*[[Elathec]]{{Fn|23}}
 
*[[Eyslk-Tan]]
 
*[[Eyslk-Tan]]
 
*[[Furta-Rith]]{{Fn|19}}
 
*[[Furta-Rith]]{{Fn|19}}
 
*[[Il'sariadh]]
 
*[[Il'sariadh]]
*[[Il-Kaithe]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Ilmaren]]{{Fn|27}}
 
*[[Invincible (Craftworld)|Invincible]]
 
*[[Invincible (Craftworld)|Invincible]]
*[[Iybraesil]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Jai-Tan]]
 
*[[Jielthwa]] - Assaulted by the [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] during the [[Great Crusade]], possibly destroyed.{{Fn|17}}
 
*[[Jielthwa]] - Assaulted by the [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] during the [[Great Crusade]], possibly destroyed.{{Fn|17}}
 
*[[Kaelor]]{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Kaelor]]{{Fn|1}}
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*[[Kal'raktri]]{{Fn|19}}
 
*[[Kinshara]]
 
*[[Kinshara]]
 
*[[Lan'edin]]{{Fn|19}}
 
*[[Lan'edin]]{{Fn|19}}
*[[Lugganath]]{{Fn|1}}
 
 
*[[Meros (Craftworld)|Meros]] - Known as "the doomed Craftworld"{{Fn|3}}
 
*[[Meros (Craftworld)|Meros]] - Known as "the doomed Craftworld"{{Fn|3}}
 
*[[Meud-Wyaid]]
 
*[[Meud-Wyaid]]
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*[[Miandrothe]]{{Fn|21}}
 
*[[Miel Carn]]{{Fn|11}}
 
*[[Miel Carn]]{{Fn|11}}
*[[Mymeara]]{{Fn|8}}
 
 
*[[Mynathensar]]
 
*[[Mynathensar]]
 
*[[Nacretineï]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Nacretineï]]{{Fn|2}}
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*[[Nyatho]]{{Fn|23}}
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*[[Olhn-Tann]]{{Fn|23}}
 
*[[Os'tara]]
 
*[[Os'tara]]
 
*[[Sethoywan]]
 
*[[Sethoywan]]
 
*[[Stel-Uit]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Stel-Uit]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Telennar]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Telennar]]{{Fn|2}}
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*[[Tuathal]] - Lost Craftworld. Heavily infested by Nurgle's influence, evacuation started to [[Lauriach]], but holded by Mechanicus [[Exterminatus]] of that planet during Hive-Fleet Garm invasion on sector.{{Fn|25}}
 
*[[Tir-Val]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Tir-Val]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Ul-Khari]]
 
*[[Ul-Khari]]
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*[[Ulthwé-Na-Daan]]{{Fn|20}}
 
*[[Varantha]]{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|14}}
 
*[[Varantha]]{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|14}}
*[[Yme-Loc]]{{Fn|1}}
 
 
*[[Zahr-Tann]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Zahr-Tann]]{{Fn|2}}
 
*[[Zandros]] - Lost Craftworld.  Home to the [[Slicing Orbs]] [[Aspect Warriors]]
 
*[[Zandros]] - Lost Craftworld.  Home to the [[Slicing Orbs]] [[Aspect Warriors]]
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==Destroyed Craftworlds==
 
Since the Fall some Craftworlds have been destroyed:
 
Since the Fall some Craftworlds have been destroyed:
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*[[Anaen]]{{Cite this}}
 
*[[Anaen]]{{Cite this}}
 
*[[Aon'tai]]
 
*[[Aon'tai]]
*[[Bel-Shammon]]{{Cite this}}
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*[[Bel-Shammon]]{{Fn|22}}
 
*[[Féin-Cineál]]
 
*[[Féin-Cineál]]
 
*[[Ila-Manesh]]
 
*[[Ila-Manesh]]
*[[Idharae]] - Destroyed in all-out siege by the [[Invaders]] Chapter of the [[Adeptus Astartes]]
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*[[Idharae]] - Destroyed in all-out siege by the [[Invaders]] Chapter of the [[Adeptus Astartes]]{{Fn|28}}
 
*[[Kalth'se]]{{Fn|7}} - [[Velderon]] comments that the actions of the Seers saved the [[Spirit Stone|spirit stones]] of this Craftworld that powered [[Wraithlord|Wraithlords]] who stopped the [[Necron]] advance on Jukiinas.
 
*[[Kalth'se]]{{Fn|7}} - [[Velderon]] comments that the actions of the Seers saved the [[Spirit Stone|spirit stones]] of this Craftworld that powered [[Wraithlord|Wraithlords]] who stopped the [[Necron]] advance on Jukiinas.
 
*[[Kher-Ys]]
 
*[[Kher-Ys]]
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*[[Thuyelsa]] - Destroyed by the [[Great Company|Tenth Company]] of the [[Space Wolves]] during the [[Great Crusade]]{{Fn|10}}
 
*[[Thuyelsa]] - Destroyed by the [[Great Company|Tenth Company]] of the [[Space Wolves]] during the [[Great Crusade]]{{Fn|10}}
 
*[[Tuonoetar]]
 
*[[Tuonoetar]]
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*[[Uthuriel]]{{Fn|24}}
 
*[[X'amot]]{{Fn|16}}
 
*[[X'amot]]{{Fn|16}}
 
*[[Zaisuthra]] - Taken over by [[Genestealer Cult]]. Later purged by [[Ynnari]].
 
*[[Zaisuthra]] - Taken over by [[Genestealer Cult]]. Later purged by [[Ynnari]].
 
*[[Zu'lasa]]{{Fn|9}}
 
*[[Zu'lasa]]{{Fn|9}}
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Eldar (4th Edition)]], {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Eldar (4th Edition)]], {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070529230713/http://uk.games-workshop.com:80/eldar/craftworld-guardians/1/ The Colours of the Craftworlds]  
 
*{{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070529230713/http://uk.games-workshop.com:80/eldar/craftworld-guardians/1/ The Colours of the Craftworlds]  
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex Imperialis]], {{Cite This}}
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*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex Imperialis (Background Book)]], {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Compilation]], Eldar, {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Compilation]], Eldar, {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]], pg. 119
 
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]], pg. 119
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*{{Endn|16}}: [[The Siege of Castellax (Novel)]], Chapter XV
 
*{{Endn|16}}: [[The Siege of Castellax (Novel)]], Chapter XV
 
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Know No Fear (Novel)]], ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 7
 
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Know No Fear (Novel)]], ''Target//Engagement'', Chapter 7
*{{Endn|18}}: [[Rogue Trader: Fallen Suns]]{{Cite this}}
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*{{Endn|18}}: [[Rogue Trader: Fallen Suns]], pg. 7
 
*{{Endn|19}}:  [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/15/community-craftworlds-kabals-cults-and-covensgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/ Warhammer Community: Community Craftworlds, Kabals, Cults and Covens (Posted on 15/10/2019)] ''(Last accessed on 15 October 2019)''
 
*{{Endn|19}}:  [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/15/community-craftworlds-kabals-cults-and-covensgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/ Warhammer Community: Community Craftworlds, Kabals, Cults and Covens (Posted on 15/10/2019)] ''(Last accessed on 15 October 2019)''
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*{{Endn|20}}: [[Eldar & Dark Eldar Collectors' Guide]], pg. 9 - ''Ulthwé-Na-Daan''
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*{{Endn|21}}: [[Dark Heresy Second Edition: Enemies Beyond]], Chapter 3, pg. 116
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*{{Endn|22}}: [[Shadow Point (Novel)]], Chapter 3
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*{{Endn|23}}: [[Penitent (Novel)]], Chapter 27
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*{{Endn|24}}: [[Atlas Infernal (Novel)]], Prologue
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*{{Endn|25}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy]]
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*{{Endn|26}}: [[Ghostmaker (Novel)]] — [[The Founding (Omnibus)]], Chapter Eleven
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*{{Endn|27}}: [[Munitorum: Ranger Long Rifle]], pgs. 3-4
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*{{Endn|28}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pg. 49
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[[Category:Artificial Objects]]
 
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[[Category:Craftworlds|*]]
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[[Category:Fleet (Eldar)]]
 
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[[de:Weltenschiff]]
 
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Craftworlds are vast craft populated by Eldar. They travel through the void of space at sub-light speeds, carrying the greater remnant of the Eldar race after the Fall of their civilisation. Each Craftworld is a self-sufficient, independent realm with its own culture. Craftworlds are in many ways living entities, powered by psychic energy from its Infinity Circuit and responding in an organic way to the stimuli of psychic forces. The power within a Craftworld can be expended as light or heat, and most Craftworld technology could not function without this psychic power grid.[13]

An Eldar Craftworld

History

Before the Fall

Craftworld View

Prior to the Fall, Craftworlds were vast trading ships, effectively, whole self-contained communities housing hundreds of Eldar families. Trading missions could take the Craftworlds thousands of light years beyond Eldar civilisation, separating the community from its homeworld for centuries. This meant the Craftworld communities had already developed a strong sense of independence and self-reliance, so they remained mostly separate from the increasing decadence of their species. Because a Craftworld might return to the rest of Eldar civilisation only three or four times in a thousand years, it was easy for them to see the degeneration of Eldar society, while to the Eldar as a whole the slow degeneration was too gradual to recognise.[Needs Citation]

As the final weeks leading to the cataclysm approached, the returning Craftworlds' crews founding their worlds in ruin. Taking with them any Eldar who still remained sane, the Craftworlds fled the Eldar civilisation.[4] Some Craftworlds were caught and consumed by Chaos along with the Eldar worlds as the Eye of Terror tore open reality, others survived for thousands of years before their people finally faded and died, while others endure to this day.[Needs Citation]

The current age

For thousands of years after the Fall to the current day, the Craftworlds have carried the greater part of the surviving Eldar. Craftworlds contain Webway gates, linking each other as well as to millions of planets, allowing the dispersed Eldar civilisation some measure of cohesion. Because the Webway is labyrinthine and impossible to map, many Craftworlds are effectively lost, unknown and cut off from the greater part of Eldar civilisation. They have grown greatly in size since the Fall, when they became the sanctuary worlds of the Eldar race. They are now approximately 10 to 100 times bigger in volume than they were before the Fall. Thus, Craftworlds are effectively worlds in space, each a self-contained biosystem, with forested and natural areas as well as urbanised ones. These natural areas provide a breathable atmosphere to the Craftworld and renewable resources.[Needs Citation] There are often sections that are uninhabited and awaiting reconstruction. Vast space docks located outside the Craftworld house fleets of spacecraft. These fleets are capable of travelling through Warp tunnels, allowing Eldar of the relatively slow-moving Craftworld to bring their forces to areas of the galaxy thousands of light years distant.[4]

Every Eldar of a Craftworld is a highly trained warrior - in battle these citizen-soldiers are known as Guardians, forming the Craftworld's defensive militia.[Needs Citation] Craftworlds are independent realms, sometimes acting mutually, combining military forces, acting together to achieve a common objective, and trading or exchanging knowledge. Exodites often trade with the Craftworlds, but believe that the Craftworld Eldar are too close to the old ways of decadence for their own good. The militarily-stronger Craftworld Eldar grant some protection to Exodite Eldar.[Needs Citation]
The exterior of Craftworld Iyanden

It is known that the last Imperial assault against a Craftworld ended as a disaster at the Battle of the Blood Nebula, which saw the loss of an entire sector fleet thus leading to the Imperium adopting the stance of dealing with individual threats of the Eldar rather than provoke an entire nest of them.[5]

Major Craftworlds


Other Craftworlds


Destroyed Craftworlds

Since the Fall some Craftworlds have been destroyed:


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