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.

The main focus of the books "Path of the Eldar" by Gav Thorpe in which they get their asses handed to them by a small Imperuim fleet (if by small you mean a massive imperial armada consisting of thousands of vessels that were so outclassed by the eldar ships that they were described as having to navigate through a grave yard of imperial vessels that now orbited the craft world in order to get anywhere near it then sure) and and one company of space marines (I think you mean the entire chapter including the chapter master and chief librarian who was overpowered by a novice farseer ), despite having time to prepare and THREE Phoenix Lords including Maugan Ra you know the one who defeated a Tyranid Invasion Swarm by himself. To be fair, fighting Tyranids and fighting Space Marines is very different. Not to mention that the book says that the Imperial Guardsmen take down the Craftworld's titans (at massive cost, before the marines arrived the guard were getting slaughtered by the aspects warriors, 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) clearing the way for Imperial Titans to have fun unopposed. 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 Craftworld's farseers told their people that they had forseen Alaitoc's victory. The conclusion? The Imperium discovered they had been tricked by the Dark Eldar and decided to go kill the ones responsible instead of Alaitoc. Some victory. It also hinted at a possible source of the Eldar species's butthurt. One of the farseers (a very young novice who had little to no experience with the imperium and who's opinion was pretty much ignored by her piers) was shocked to find that Imperial ships have void shields. If they are so sheltered then that might explain some of their arrogance. And also makes no sense at all as Alaitoc is the go too craftworld of fighting the Imperuim and Gav didn't hint to there current Necron job. Maybe they became complacent because they fight the Imperium so much but the fights are usually on their own terms and far away from the Craftworld, eventually (over the course of ten thousand years) turning Alaitoc into a glass cannon (glass cannon is a bit of an over exaggeration given the chapter master leading the attack actually considered the sheer scale of imperial loses to be excessive and ultimately convinced him to negotiate a truce; that's right the imperial loses were so vast that it forced a chapter master to negotiate peace terms) Another view to the matter is that Alaitoc are not actually that week, as it is said in the book series path of the eldar, the eldar could have beaten off the attack but it would have been bloody so instead they just told the space marines that they were only attacking the eldar because they had been tricked by the dark eldar and an imperial Governor, (they 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). it also must be known that Alaitoc is the smallest of the big five craftworlds and far weaker eldar for eldar than the other craftworlds since unlike Biel-tan and Ulthwé it is not constantly at war, it is not made up or warrior tribes like Saim-Hann, and it doesn't have a fuckhuge amount of wraith constructs like Iyanden.

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?