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Look at pic related, which shows Maiden worlds all over the galaxy, literally in every corner. A harlequin in the Throneworld novel calls the old eldar empire something like an empire of 10 000 suns. Yes, their core worlds were definitely around the Eye of Terror, same way how humanity's core worlds are around Terra, but that's a bullshit argument, when we know there're wayshrines all over the galaxy and that Eldar had contacts and knowledge of most other minor species in the Milky Way. Lastly, that (to be a universally present "threat" for your dudes) is quite literally a point of being a major 40k faction, so how does it makes sense for one of the most ancient star-faring races, who are explicitly stated (in numerous primary sources) to have been the masters of the galaxy at some point, to not have their presence spread throughout the Milky Way? Unless you want to claim that 40k's writers deliberately misuse every second (if not single) word in the English language, semantically, applying any bit of logic to statements made in even the primary sources (codices, army books, etc.) leads to an understanding of Eldar as a formerly galaxy-wide Empire that had been in that state for decades of millennia, at the very least.