Can a craftworld be built / rebuilt at the time of 40k ?

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**BrianDavion**

Or is it because the Edlar see cloning mass amounts of canon fodder as being horrificly immoral?

there is a LOT of debate on the ethics of cloning even today, iut's entirely possiable the craftworld eldar would view cloning as immoral.

**Shadenuat**

ArcaneHorror wrote:
Aren't there a ton of abandoned craftworlds floating around the webway? Why not just grab one of those?

You'd need Maugan Ra for that.

As for Craftworlds, they're same ships with same wraithbone superstructure and an infinity circuit but just on a larger scale, built over thousands of years of traveling around. And Eldar still build ships and have shipyards. So yeah, it's probably possible to build one, but asking it is like asking if it's possible to build Tokyo overnight or something like that.

pm713 wrote:
Their home would be in one piece? If someone smashes a hole in a wall of my house I'm going to want to fix it regardless of whether it causes actual problems.

Thecraftworld of Biel-Tan remains broken,
entire segments blackened and barren, its
solar sails shredded. Bonesingers work
tirelessly to keep the world-ship together,
and the ghost halls of the craftworld swell
with newly animated wraithbone constructs
bearing the souls of those the infinity
circuit can no longer protect. Nearly half of
Biel-Tan’s inhabitants are gone, either slain
in battle or, to the furyof those who blame
Yvraine for the catastrophe that befell the
craftworld, departed to join the swelling
ranks of the Ynnari. Yet those who remain
cling more steadfastly than ever to their
orthodox methods, vowing with renewed
vigour to scour clean all would-be usurpers
and bring about a new Aeldari civilisation
to rival the ancient empire of old.

Not dissimilar to Iyanden.

**Da Boss**

Ach, that is a bit lame, that they are making a tonne of ghost constructs too now. That was a desperate and somewhat controversial move by Iylanden if I remember correclty. It would be cooler if Biel-Tan did not go the same way.

**BrianDavion**

should they have just let the souls on the damaged parts of the infinity circuit die?

**jhe90**

BrianDavion wrote:
should they have just let the souls on the damaged parts of the infinity circuit die?

And let them fall potentially into the hands of slanesh to empower the great enemy and send them to torture, torment and internal damnation?

**Lord Fishface**

According to the fluff, the known Eldar craftworlds were all built before/during the fall; it’s a fair inference that no new ones have been created since, either because a diminishing civilisation has no need for more planet-sized spacecraft, or because they lack the necessary concentration of resources and personnel to build one.

It would rather undermine the Eldar’s tragedy and pathos if they could just make new craftworlds, so I’m happy with that.