Generally the times when you could just log on and play, meet random people whom you didnt know and who were acting like people of their factions were supposed to act, and have crazy space adventures fighting alongside or against them. Not everyone was like that, but you could still find people like that at almost any time.
Tau =CR= vs Outcast wars 2008-2010
Order Indy in Minor, Delta, Alaska, and all over Sirius 2008-2011
Outcast taking piracy road trips around Sirius 2008-2013
Liberty super-righteous man of da law (various gungho chars) 2012-2014
Spud cloaked talking nomad-human hybrid superweapon morph 2014
