FACTIONS
Survival Through Perspective
No faction defines the world.
Each survives within it differently.
Settlers
Stability through adaptation.
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Settlers focus on long-term survival by building, maintaining, and sustaining what remains.
Their approach includes:
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hunting and fishing
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small-scale agriculture
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resource management
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base construction and maintenance
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Settlers establish areas of relative stability, but expansion introduces new pressure. Increased activity, infrastructure, and resource concentration can attract attention — from both human and environmental threats.
Survival is achieved through balance, not control.
Raiders
Survival through opportunity.
Raiders operate on mobility and disruption. They rely on speed, timing, and exploiting instability rather than creating it. Their approach includes:
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intercepting supply routes
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ambushing isolated players or factions
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redistributing resources through force
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operating outside structured systems
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Raiders benefit from chaos, but prolonged conflict increases risk and exposure.
Insurgents
Survival through resistance.
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Insurgents act against imposed structure and control. Their actions are deliberate and strategic, targeting systems rather than individuals.
Their approach includes:
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sabotage of infrastructure
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disruption of supply and communication
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controlled destabilization
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operating in hidden or fragmented networks
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They influence the world indirectly, shaping outcomes through pressure rather than presence.
Colonists
Survival through restoration.
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Colonists arrive with the intent to rebuild and establish order using advanced technology and structured systems.
Their approach includes:
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infrastructure development
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controlled expansion
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resource standardization
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enforcement of stability
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Their presence increases organization, but also introduces density — and with it, new forms of instability.
ADC (Ascendent Defense Corporation)
Non-Playable Authority
Preservation through control.
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ADC units are synthetic–cyborg systems deployed to preserve life and maintain planetary stability. Their primary objectives are to contain and study the Arachne and Bloom, regulate critical resources, and provide limited security for surviving populations.
Their approach includes:
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containment and observation of Arachne and Bloom zones
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control and monitoring of key resource corridors
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enforcement of restricted areas and safe routes
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operation of trade infrastructure and checkpoint systems
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ADC does not operate as a traditional faction.
They do not align — they regulate.
Their presence stabilizes regions temporarily, but their control introduces new constraints.
Security is limited. Access is conditional.
Shared Consequence:
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No matter the approach, all factions exist within the same system.
Expansion, conflict, and survival efforts influence the world beyond immediate outcomes.
What is built, consumed, or destroyed does not disappear — it accumulates.
The environment responds.