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Prior to the Fall, Craftworlds were vast trading ships, effectively whole self-contained communities housing hundreds of Eldar families. Trading missions could take the Craftworlds thousands of light years beyond Eldar civilisation, separating the community from its homeworld for centuries. This meant the Craftworld communities had already developed a strong sense of independence and self-reliance, so they remained mostly separate from the increasing decadence of their species. Because a Craftworld might return to the rest of Eldar civilisation only three or four times in a thousand years, it was easy for them to see the degeneration of Eldar society, while to the Eldar as a whole the slow corruption was too gradual to recognise.{{Fn|1a}}
As the final weeks leading to the cataclysm approached, the returning Craftworlds' crews founding finding their worlds in ruin. Taking with them any Eldar who still remained sane, the Craftworlds fled the Eldar civilisation. Some Craftworlds were caught and consumed by [[Chaos]] along with the Eldar worlds as the [[Eye of Terror]] tore open reality, others survived for thousands of years before their people finally faded and died, while others endure to this day.{{Fn|4b}}
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