Craftworld Alaitoc

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Alaitoc
Translation	Unknown
Location	Ultima Segmentum
Specialty	Rangers, Pathfinders
Hero	Illic Nightspear
Enemy	Necrons, Imperium
Colours	Blue and yellow

Craftworld Alaitoc also known as The Starstriders -- the most George Michael of aliases -- is the most puritanical, overtly racist and obnoxious of all the Eldar Craftworlds; potentially even rivalling this prick with their sheer arrogance. Primarily made up of outcasts with sniper rifles and a disparate selection of pirates, the forces of the Alaitoc can most accurately be described as shady as fuck, choosing to spend most of their time chilling in the webway, waiting for shit to go down, or holding casual meetings with everyone's favourite circus freaks. Mostly, the forces of the Alaitoc like to observe from afar, casually mocking Ahriman as he knocks frantically on the door of the Black Library, sobbing like a girl in the rain waiting to be let in. Because the forces of the Alaitoc are made up of grumpy loners, with ideologies rooted firmly within the past with no scope for change, they hate the idea of spending their time floating around a big hunk of space-metal. Consequently, this means that few Eldar actually live aboard the Alaitoc craftworld. Most choose to leave to follow the path of an outcast -- where eventually, they become pathfinders. On occasion, they are recalled to the craftworld in times of need, but most of their time is spent causing havoc and general jackassery upon passing merchant vessels, transport and anything Necron.

They used to be mostly know for fighting the Imperium, but became arch enemies of the Necrons because GW needed an Eldar force who "remembers" and hunted the 'crons and since everyone and their dog fights the Imperium. A better choice would have been Saim-Hann, they have most of the Eldar's ancient traditions so it would've made more sense for them to the the Craftworld that remembers. Even the colors red and white are a perfect contrast to the black and green most Necrons favor.

Due to the selfish actions of the ranger Aradryan and the corrupt and egocentric Imperial commander De’vaque, who had dealing with the Eldar pirate Yrithain in an attempt to enrich himself at the expense of the imperium Alaitoc would find itself under attack by all the imperial force’s that De’vaque could muster and would be led by the Chapter master of the Sons of Orar, Nadeus. The events of which are the main focus of the books "Path of the Eldar" by Gav Thorpe which follows the story of three Eldar youths Korlandril, Aradryan and Thirianna.

The armada that was sent was massive and each of Alaitoc’s farseer had been ascribed a region of the skein to watch. Thirianna herself was responsible for watching the unfolding fates of more than a dozen starships, from frigates to battleships. Thirianna was impressed that the human ships were protected by warp-based technologies ('void shields) for she had not believed them capable of such technology, though it was still simplistic compared to the eldar mastery of the warp.

• this doesn’t make a lot of sense as Alaitoc is the go too craftworld of fighting the Imperuim and Gav for some reason decided to leave out their current Necron hunting job. Maybe they had become complacent in their dealings with humans as their normal conflicts with the Imperium would normally be dealt with on their own terms and as far away from the Craftworld as possible. Thirianna reaction can probably be put down to her being still very young and naïve as she up to this point had all but no experience when it came to dealing with humans and given Alaitoc’s strict customs and insular tendencies it’s not very likely that such information would be common knowledge.

After the first wave of imperial ships were butchered the main imperial fleet appeared, arriving in small groups scattered around the edges of the star system. Alaitoc fleet was just not numerous enough to cover every approach. Although they could not ultimately prevent the imperials from landing upon Alaitoc herself buy the time they had finally managed it the void around Alaitoc was a literal grave yard of imperial vessels.

Before the marines arrived to save the day within the craftworld itself the guard were getting slaughtered by the aspects warriors which isn’t a surprise given that they had THREE Phoenix Lords including Maugan fighting alongside them, one incident saw a small group of warriors louring thousands of guard including entire armed divisions into the centre of one of the massive dome's before turning off the gravity, ejecting the whole lot into the void. Taking advantage of the limited movement of the Eldar titans within the confines of the inner corridors the Imperial Guardsmen were actually able to take down the Craftworld's titans. Given the correct weapons (such as Trebor I made heavy vanquisher cannons which are, basically, anti-Titan guns), the Guard could in deed accomplish such an objective (though, most of them died doing it)

The reason the Sons of Orar took light casualties during the initial fighting was because their chief librarian was purposely directing his side so when the eldar unleashed a backlash against the enemy it would fall upon the regular soldiers and not their own elite warriors. This was put to a stop by Thirianna who hunted him down and crushed his mind like a grape. The Craftworld's farseers had told their people that they had forseen Alaitoc's victory. The conclusion? Due to the intervention of the Ranger Aradryan the Imperium discovered they had been tricked by the Dark Eldar and De’vaque's treachery was undiscovered.

In short the Alaitoc eldar could have beaten off the attack but it would have been bloody so instead they just told the space marines that they had only ended up attacking Alaitoc because they had been tricked by the dark eldar and an imperial Governor. Whilst the fighting had continued within the Craftworld the Eldar fleet had continued to destroy the imperial fleet leaving the forces upon Alaitoc stranded with no way off and once the Eldar had finished evacuating the last of it's population they planed for Alaitoc to kill herself, implode her webway portal and killing all those left behind.

They had also told the space marines that if they did not stop a fuckhuge fleet of eldar with ships from pretty much every craftworld was on its way to kill everything that was not eldar within 20 lightyears. Although Alaitoc is known as one of the smallest of the big five craftworlds, being far weaker eldar for eldar than the other craftworlds such as Biel-tan and Ulthwé that are constantly at war, nor was it made up or warrior tribes like Saim-Hann or have a fuckhuge amount of wraith constructs like Iyanden the sheer scale of imperial loses ultimately convinced Chapter master Nadeus to negotiate a truce; that's right the imperial loses were so vast that it forced a chapter master to negotiate peace terms

'How many thousands have died already?’ whispered Alaitin. ‘How many of your warriors have fallen to clean the blood from this man’s hands, Chapter Master?’

The boom of the pistol caused Aradryan to jump. De’vaque’s head disappeared in a cloud of blood and bone and his headless corpse collapsed to the pavement.

‘Too many,’ snarled the Chapter Master. ‘Call off your ships and I will cease the attack.

At the end nearly a third of Alaitoc lay in ruins, from rim to core but with that said the number of Eldar dead although high was still only counted in the thousands and given the potential population of one of the larger Craftworlds that’s still a fairly small number. The Imperium upon leaving decided to go kill the ones responsible. Some victory.

Necron Grudge

A possible reason for Alaitoc's newfound necron hatred could be the story of the Alaitoc Farseer Alladrios Kulcassian from the 3rd Edition Necron codex.

In the story, Alladrios had ordered Craftworld Alaitoc to the Imperium's training facility for Culexus assassins. He was doing this because a Culexus assassin killed his sister (who was also a Farseer), and the Eldar consider dying at the hands of one to be a horrific fate (as it resulted in complete destruction of the soul; VS being consumed by Slannesh... tough call). Once within striking distance, Alladrios was about to give the order for Alaitoc's forces to destroy it. However, though eager to avenge his sister, Alladrios came down with a case of something rare in 40k; common sense, and read the runes to see the future consequences of the attack. This was a wise choice, as every alternate future after the Culexus temple's destruction showed Alaitoc being destroyed by an unidentified enemy (possibly Necrons or the Imperium's forces). Alladrios was torn but swallowed his pride and called off the attack. Though he loved his sister dearly, the price of vengeance was too high. As Alaitoc turned and left, the story concluded with a bitter Alladrios deducing that the Necrons and/or the C'tan put the pariah gene in humanity, likening it to sowing crops, and are preparing to harvest them.

Of course, there is another reason.

Saim-Hann should have been the Necron-hating Craftworld.....On the other hand, didn't Obyron the Necron kill their craftworld hero Illic Nightspear?