Eiyoltan is by far the most active Craftworld in the Virago sub-sector. It has a large military presence here and seems to be more and more active in the region. Being close to the Eye of Terror, Ulthwé Craftworld is not far away. Messen in the Rhoie system is an Eldar Maiden world populated in part by Exodites. Also, some sort of waystation or pirate base is rumoured to exist in the Salen system. A good number of Eldar ships have been seen the last decades, but so far there has only been minor skirmishers. Eiyoltan now works hard to secure and rebuild the fallen Aeldari Empire in the sector of space the Craftworld travels trough. The Salen system in the Virago sub-sector is one such place, and a lot of the pirate activity there may be attributed to the Eiyoltan warfleet. It has been speculated that the increased activity of the Eiyoltan in the sector may be explained that they are preparing a safe path for the Eiyoltan Craftworld itself.
The Eiyoltan Craftworld had revoked its expansionist policy in the Virago sub-sector after multiple defeats and had withdrawn all of its forces back home. After the disgrace of his defeats on Rhoie, Autarch Koryo had spent the last years training and meditating in the Shrine of the Stormshadow, his old Warp Spider shrine. Contemplating surprise tactics and honing his mastery of the Warp Jump Generator, he gained new insights and perfected his flickerjump.
This new understanding proved instrumental in defence of the Craftworld, when the opening of the Great Rift enabled a Nurgle Daemon force attack. The invasion was led by the inventor of the Purple Pox, the Great Unclean One known as Poxvirid Purpur Variol. Koryo, once again leading the 4th Eiyoltan warhost as an Autarch, and the Warp Spiders of the Shrine of the Stormshadow executed precision attacks on the daemonic assailants. Koryo and four squads of Warp Spiders managed to banish Poxvirid, effectively ending the invasion. This victory redeemed Koryo in both Eiyoltan’s Autarch and Seer Councils. In recognition of his bravery and deeds during the invasion, he was renamed Koryo Stormshadow. However, the victory was bittersweet. Poxvirid had managed to infect Eiyoltan’s population with the Purple Pox. Humans infected with the Purple Pox slowly turn into Poxwalkers. The effect on Aeldari, however, were to weaken and rot their limbs. Eiyoltan responded by setting themselves in quarantine and focus all research on finding a cure. It was soon found that wraithbone slowed the spread of the disease. It swiftly became custom to graft plates of wraithbone directly into their skin. This was done as a preventive measure, to slow the spread of infections, or even replace lost limbs. The Daemon invasion and subsequent epidemic reminded the Eldar of their mortality, steeling their will to live. This made the Eiyoltan Aeldari extremely durable in combat and its troops could even ignore otherwise fatal wounds.
While the majority of the ravaged Eiyoltan was rebuilding, Koryo was sent by the Seer Council to divert the imperial forces to attack the daemonic forces of Poxvirid and his Death Guard allies. Autarch Koryo Stormshadow is currently engaged in stopping the Necrons’ attempt to expand a Pariah Nexus in the Virago sub-sector.