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Eldar. They're not so much in a racial 'decline' so much as a fragmented society whose time as a galactic power has ebbed.. they're just a remnant of a former great age but that's far from saying they are dying out (although that isn't saying they're safe either, since their souls are still in perpetual danger.)

Setting aside the danger to one's soul, and the need for everyone to fight to protect the craftworld, they actually have the best and most normal 'society' of anyone in 40K, and that includes the Imperium. They're the most democratic, the most equal, and probably the ones with the best standards of living. I'd imagine craftworlds are amongst the safest of places (inasmuch as any place can be safe).

The Eldar codex says they are a dying race.

CWE/Exodites are dying out, eldar as a race not so much

The DE are growing

Not quickly, but yes they are. They're not a real threat to the galaxy though, since they need to spend most of their time in the WW or they get ommed

TheAngrySquig wrote:CWE/Exodites are dying out, eldar as a race not so much

Right, the poll makes a distiction between the Dark Eldar and Eldar. My post was referring to the Eldar as a dying race. Granted DE and CWE are technically the same race, I wasn't implying that as a race they were dying. I meant that the race of CWE in GW's eyes are dying. A matter of semantics really.

If you look at it that way then yes, as a race the CWE are dying. On a side note why isn't CWE a sanctioned abbreviation yet?

TheAngrySquig wrote:If you look at it that way then yes, as a race the CWE are dying. On a side note why isn't CWE a sanctioned abbreviation yet?

Don't question it. Just accept it. I like you AngrySquig I really doos. But I cain't stop dem when dey come a knockin' for yous.

Fair point Iggy, fair point

Orks! I could smash da humies. If I got enough teefs I could trade it for some flash, maybe a big flash gob or a shoota. At the very least I could chop the !@#$ out of just about anything. WAAAGH.

Ignatius wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:If you look at it that way then yes, as a race the CWE are dying. On a side note why isn't CWE a sanctioned abbreviation yet?

Don't question it. Just accept it. I like you AngrySquig I really doos. But I cain't stop dem when dey come a knockin' for yous.

...Because if you just say "eldar" without anything extra in front, it generally means CWE.

Daemon, because life as a daemon would be awesome.

Black Templar Space Marine! Just run in and slay anything.

Ugh...I don't fancy myself being a xenos creature, even though I think Eldar look ridiculously bad-a**.

Nor do I see myself in a lifetime of war with the Space Marines, besides they get hardly any free time

I voted for Human, because that's what I am now, and I can just chillax as a citizen...

simply tau i would most likely be water or air caste as i can be a smart fellow and very open to other people even if you eat the dead so long you dont eat me if i was air caste i would most likely be a fighter pilot killing hummies on taros and if i was water cast i would be a ambassedor

Tadashi wrote:

Warrior Squirrel wrote:Who would not want to pilot a Battlesuit?

One: the people who consider xenos as filth
Two: the giants in power armor who also consider xenos as filth
Three: the pointy-eared people who consider everyone else as primitives
Four: happy-go-lucky people who think it's too 'soft'
Five: metal people with over the top technology

That wasnt a serious question. However you did give a very boring and much too serious answer.

Far Seer wrote:Ugh...I don't fancy myself being a xenos creature, even though I think Eldar look ridiculously bad-a**.

Nor do I see myself in a lifetime of war with the Space Marines, besides they get hardly any free time

I voted for Human, because that's what I am now, and I can just chillax as a citizen...

Very few citizens get to chillax in 40k, it's more like "worked to death in slave labour" or "conscripted" or "lobotomized"

Call me an optimistic, but I would go Tau, naive, dark totallion like oppression on the inside and doomed to fail. But I like em.

Depends on the world of course

im2randomghgh wrote:

Far Seer wrote:Ugh...I don't fancy myself being a xenos creature, even though I think Eldar look ridiculously bad-a**.

Nor do I see myself in a lifetime of war with the Space Marines, besides they get hardly any free time

I voted for Human, because that's what I am now, and I can just chillax as a citizen...

Very few citizens get to chillax in 40k, it's more like "worked to death in slave labour" or "conscripted" or "lobotomized"

So Black Library fiction isn't canon? I remember a large portion humanity being relatively. . . normal. Such a shame. The grim and dark grimdarkness is overwhelming.

Croaker wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Far Seer wrote:Ugh...I don't fancy myself being a xenos creature, even though I think Eldar look ridiculously bad-a**.

Nor do I see myself in a lifetime of war with the Space Marines, besides they get hardly any free time

I voted for Human, because that's what I am now, and I can just chillax as a citizen...

Very few citizens get to chillax in 40k, it's more like "worked to death in slave labour" or "conscripted" or "lobotomized"

So Black Library fiction isn't canon? I remember a large portion humanity being relatively. . . normal. Such a shame. The grim and dark grimdarkness is overwhelming.

I don't know which books you're reading. From the ones I've read the largest portion of humanity either struggles to survive in large manufatorums or forge worlds. And the middle class struggles to survive, heck I don't even think some planets even have a middle class. And the rich live all fine and dandy in their giant homes well above all the gangs and violence.

Of course I do read a lot of chaos novels.... and a lot of the people are already dead. But to live a pretty chillax life, you'd probably have to find a remote planet, away from forge worlds, probably a farm planet or somewhere away from hive cities.

Or you can live on Ultramar....

blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:

I don't know which books you're reading. From the ones I've read the largest portion of humanity either struggles to survive in large manufatorums or forge worlds. And the middle class struggles to survive, heck I don't even think some planets even have a middle class. And the rich live all fine and dandy in their giant homes well above all the gangs and violence.

Of course I do read a lot of chaos novels.... and a lot of the people are already dead. But to live a pretty chillax life, you'd probably have to find a remote planet, away from forge worlds, probably a farm planet or somewhere away from hive cities.

Or you can live on Ultramar....

Ciaphas Cain novels.

CSM.
Rebelling against fascists (loyal) marines.

Yet I play GK.

Strange.

Either normal human or Necron because I enjoy sleeping. And films with huge men with austrian accents

zzzzzz


'Hal, I'd like an alarm call for tuesday the 12th, 350,000,000 years from now'

*** Certainly, Dave. Would you like a game of chess when you wake?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I am a human, Always believed in them and think we are the best no matter what!

So human I be and I would inspire to become a commissar!

im2randomghgh wrote:

Ignatius wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:If you look at it that way then yes, as a race the CWE are dying. On a side note why isn't CWE a sanctioned abbreviation yet?

Don't question it. Just accept it. I like you AngrySquig I really doos. But I cain't stop dem when dey come a knockin' for yous.

...Because if you just say "eldar" without anything extra in front, it generally means CWE.

Yeah but that's an extra 2 letters i have to type. I'm a squig, you think i have the energy to type TWO full extra letters

Realistically I'd be a normal human who died face down in the mud after a rebellion, if I'm lucky.

Croaker wrote:

blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:

I don't know which books you're reading. From the ones I've read the largest portion of humanity either struggles to survive in large manufatorums or forge worlds. And the middle class struggles to survive, heck I don't even think some planets even have a middle class. And the rich live all fine and dandy in their giant homes well above all the gangs and violence.

Of course I do read a lot of chaos novels.... and a lot of the people are already dead. But to live a pretty chillax life, you'd probably have to find a remote planet, away from forge worlds, probably a farm planet or somewhere away from hive cities.

Or you can live on Ultramar....

Ciaphas Cain novels.

REALLY? Hrm.... I gotta re-read them then... I don't remember a lot of chillaxing civies....

I remember a few, generally the planetary nobility and their kids.

That said the Ciaphas Caine novels, while good reads, aren't that terribly accurate to 40K's established fluff.