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Thank you, it was maddening trying to remember

 Grumblewartz wrote:
I second the vague memory of Dark Eldar being the most prolific of the Eldar. I believe it was stated in the same way that everything is in 40k, they left it ambiguous, mentioning it as a way of explaining the scale of the Dark City. Something along the lines of the Dark City is not bound by normal physics, it has the potential to expand infinitely and may contain more eldar than their craftworld kin. But, I too have no idea where that came from, it might be one of those little comments in the marginalia of the old codex.

Yes and I think in one of the Eldar Black Library novels there is a quick mention by a Craftworlder/Outcast about the size of the Dark City and how it seems to outnumber the Craftworlds.

Of course that is compensated for by the fact the Dark City exists in a state of barely controlled urban anarchy, so the life of the average Dark Eldar can be short and precarious. By contrast, the Craftworlds seem to form a psychic gestalt, and the Craftworld itself preserves the life of its inhabitants. In one of Gav Thorpe's novels, one of the Eldar characters contemplates suicide by jumping from a bridge but gives up on the idea as he knows the Craftworld would activate safety force fields to catch him.