MOD:WCU:bgFactions

Okay, so to granularize the factions:

Pilgrims (like Asimov's "Spacers")

• Border Worlds' (Crushed) Pilgrims
  • Pilgrim Revivalists
  • NeoPilgrims
  • PragmaPilgrims

• ResettledPilgrims (Escapers, in the Tri-System)
  • Bex faithful, history revisionists, and the religious majority
  • Bex unfaithful, anti-revisionists, persecuted, discriminated against, become pirates out of necessity. But unlike pirates in the rest of the world, they also feel more self-righteous and are more industrious, and progress more rapidly than the rest of the Tri-System's society in some respects. So big and powerful, in fact, that they become sub-factionalized, eventually; but that's yet to happen at this point.

Terrans

• Old Earth Terrans
• OuterColonists (Settlers)
  • Gemini Settlers
  • Landreich Settlers
  • (other settlers)
• Terran Confed (political)
  • party x
  • party y
  • Tolwyn's political arm (Sol)
  • Retro infiltrators (Gemini)
• Terran Confed (military)
  • Stright and dumb
  • Tolwyn's military arms (Black Ops, Black Lance)
  • Tolwyn's opponents (Blair, Eisen)
  • Corrupt officials (specially in Gemini) having deals with mobs, they help finance Tolwyn's Black Lance expenses, Tolwyn guarantees their protection from whistle blowers through his influence in the Black Ops forces. Note that Black Ops forces do have a share of the official budget, but Tolwyn needs the money laundering industry (Smile) services that only Gemini has developed to such high professional levels, in order to finance Black Lance.
  • Mandarin infiltrators
• Terran Confed (civilian)
  • Industry, corporations
  • various cartels, various mob alignments. Fuels, radioactives and shipyards are the biggest industrial cartels. Mobsters exert influence by controlling most mining, supply side; and by money-laundering and selling ships and weapons to pirates, demand-side. They keep a balance between manufacturing and corrupt-Confed sourcing, so as to pit those two sides against each other and gain from their competing in price. They hate Menesch because, by bringing free kat ships, he's put a hole on their former quasi-monopoli, --or rather "trust".
  • Merchant (haulers)
    • Independent
    • Guild
• Mobs
  • Lynch
  • Lang?
  • Kroiz?
• Pirates
  • clan x
  • clan y
  • ....
  • militia undercovers
• Militias
  • Federally-supported
  • Local-funded
    • Funded by local industry
    • Funded by local mobs
  • Guild-funded
  • Mob infiltrators/informers
• Hunter
  • Militia/Confed aligned (many sub-sub-factions)
  • Mob-aligned
  • Mercenaries' Guild
• Mandarins
  • Ideological Mandarins
  • Convenience Mandarins
  • Confed undercovers
• Religious/Philosophic Ideologues
  • Steltekers (Materson their leader?)
  • Retros

Kilrathi

• Kilrathi Rebels
• Kilrathis
  • kat merchants
  • kat insys
  • kat military
  • klan x
  • klan y
  • ...