Why the craftworlds don't join forces?

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**AndrewGPaul**

Delvarus Centurion wrote:
Galef wrote:
They don't hate each other, but there are slightly different culture in each CW. They are cities in their own right, so part of them not "merging" is because cities don't do that.
It's like asking why London and New York don't merge. They are no where near each other and even if they were, they have enough autonomy that any alliance would only last as long as both benefit. As soon as NY wants to pursue X, it'd peace out.

I never said they hated one another. Its nothing like London and New York merging. The Eldar are not so petty and unwise, if the need was dire enough they would merge or take some drastic action. If earth was being assailed by aliens then New York and London probably would merge as nation states might in order to fight them, the whole earth might unite.

It is like that. The craftworlds are basically different Eldar nations, and it's not unknown (although rare) for them to come to blows on occasion. They all want to Make the Eldar Great Again, but they disagree on how to do that.

**AndrewGPaul**

If we assume that the galaxy as depicted in the 40k maps is supposed to be the real Milky Way, then at least some of the craftworlds must have undertaken some sort of FTL travel (as has The Rock), as they're more than 10,000 light years from the Eye of Terror.

However, as usually depicted, they just trundle slowly through realspace, and dispatch emissaries, armies and fleets through the Webway.

**AndrewGPaul**

I think it's the gates that are the anchor points for portals to the Webway - move the gate, it drags the end of the webway tunnel with it.

After all, it's canon that the Craftworlds move, and also that they have Webway entrances aboard them.

**AndrewGPaul**

Of course they do; how else do the Eldar get in and out?

**AndrewGPaul**

From a meta point of view, they don't band together because the setting needs a reason for every faction to fight every other and itself.