Something that has always irked me about official factions...

[SummerMcLovin]

Noone wants to have less.

To be fair, IMG are losing the 5kers we hardly use and probably going to lose Battleships from the ID too, which I'll admit doesn't really make sense apart from the Colonial ones they've had in the past.
I do agree that it makes sense for factions such as the BAF (let's say the 13th Fleet won't get its own official faction...) or non-vanilla ones (especially closed ones). The actual Colonial Republic (the majority of the population, living in Coronado) is ran by the CR|, but of course you have all the rogue (read: indy, probably not knowing the lore) Colonials fighting Liberty/Mollys or whatever they do and the Vanguard Fleet (which is there at least inRP) from the old =CR= leadership.

Zoners are definitely not in the same boat, and other examples like the Rogues and Corse (say if the current [UC] and LaBrise| were both around) also don't quite work with the lore of the NPC faction.

As for faction power, I'd already suggested a new Faction Right to set a stolen ship to unusable core with valid RP (in the same way as FR5s 'work'), if that can be done within the current Hook coding.

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