Official Player Factions

This page contains information about official player factions. For unofficial ones, see Player Groups. For NPC factions see NPC Factions.

Currently, all official factions have their own subforums, that you can find in the top forums of http://discoverygc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=60

Liberty Player Factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
Ageira Innovations	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	Ageira~	Ageira Technologies	None	Ageira Innovations is Liberty industrial corporation which specialises in Jump Gate and Trade Lane technologies, production of Bio-Neural Processors, Light Arms and Superconductors and is working on other innovative research and development projects. They collaborate with Deep Space Engineering and Universal Shipping and make up The Big Three.
Lane Hackers		LH~ / none	Lane Hackers	None	A core group of Lane Hackers who oversee most Hacker operations around Liberty. Its members employ codenames taken from individuals of Earth history.
Liberty Police Incorporated		LPI-	Liberty Police Incorporated	Illinois	An administrative body of the Liberty Police Incorporated. They are charged with upholding the laws of Liberty, the assistance of civilians in need, and defending Liberty from her enemies.
Liberty Navy		[LN]	Liberty Navy	Virginia	The Liberty Navy is responsible for protecting the economic well-being of liberty through military force, both within the boundaries of the colony and in the independent systems that border its territory.
Liberty Security Force	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	=LSF=	Liberty Security Force	Ellesmere	The LSF is the intelligence branch of Liberty's armed forces. They maintain national security, gather information all over Sirius and operate in secrecy to ensure the free flow of goods and services in Liberty.
Universal Shipping Incorporated		[*USI*]	Universal Shipping	None	USI is one of the "Big Three" corporations of Liberty. They are known to be skilled at shipping commodities through high-risk areas, and also the bulk transport of goods in convoys. Universal is often contracted by Ageira or DSE to handle large-scale shipments that they cannot handle on their own.
Hellfire Legion		[HF]-	Hellfire Legion	Vespucci	The Hellfire Legion is the military arm of the Commonwealth of Liberty.
5th Fleet		5th|	Liberty Navy	None	A Military Police fleet of the Liberty Navy.
Battlegroup Harmony		H|-	Liberty Seperatists	None	The main combat force of the Liberty Separatists.
Division 9		D9|	Wild	None	The wild force from the Republic.

Bretonia Player Factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
Border World Exports		Bowex)	Border World Exports	None	Border World Exports is the primary supplier of Bretonian Armed Forces and Bretonian Police Authority and trades heavily within Bretonia and border worlds.
Bretonia Police Authority		BPA)	Bretonia Police Authority	Poole	The Bretonia Police Authority, the official law enforcement agency of Bretonia
Bretonia Mining and Fabrication		BMF|	Bretonia Mining and Fabrication (player faction)	New London	Bretonia Mining and Fabrication BMF| Is a Bretonian industrial company with its headquarters, the Isle of Skye, located in Orbit of Planet New London, in the New London system.
Bretonian Armed Forces		BAF|	Bretonian Armed Forces	None	The Bretonian Armed Forces, the official military of Bretonia
[M]ollys		[M]	Mollys	Londonderry	The Mollys are a separatist group committed to freeing the Dublin system from Bretonian rule through attacks on civilian, commercial, and military targets. In recent years they have been increasingly successful in resisting local Corsair expansion.
Gateway Shipping		Gateway|	Gateway Shipping	None	Gateway Shipping is a small trading organization based in Bretonia which caters to smaller mining and manufacturing firms in the Border Worlds, Liberty, and Rheinland.

Kusari Player Factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
Kusari Naval Forces		[KNF]	Kusari Naval Forces	Hiroshima	The Kusari primary fleet.
Samura Heavy Industries		Samura|-	Samura Industries	None	One of the great Kusari keiretsu -- sprawling, vertically integrated companies that control whole industries.
Aoi Iseijin		Aoi| / |Aoi	The Wild	Tohoku	Remnants of Nomad infested humans, primarily of Kusari background.
Kishiro Technologies		Kishiro|	Kishiro Technologies	None	Kishiro Technologies is one of the great keiretsu of Kusari; a sprawling empire responsible for the manufacture of advanced technologies including optical chips, engine components and gas miners. The consumer division also supplies high quality electronics for Kusari households who can afford the very latest technology.
Golden Chrysanthemums		GC|	Golden Chrysanthemums	None	The Golden Chrysanthemums are a terrorist organization dedicated to the overthrow of the current Kusari government and replacing it with a matriarchy that is dedicated to the good of all the people, male and female.
Hogosha Association		[HA]	Hogosha	None	The Hogosha Association is a confederation ran by collectives of criminal syndicates in Kusari to coordinate strengths and goals of the otherwise minor forces of the Hogosha.

Rheinland Player Factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
ALG Waste Disposal		[ALG]-	ALG Waste Disposal	None	Rheinland Lawful Waste Disposal Faction
The Unioners		UN|	Unioners	Bering	The Unioners are a paramilitary group formed from dispossed Republican Shipping workers. They wish to return Rheinland to it's former glory, as a hard working, perfectionist power.
Rheinland Federal Police		RFP|	Rheinland Federal Police	Halle	The Rheinland Bundespolizei, a law-enforcement organization that maintains jurisdiction over House Rheinland.
Buro der Marineintelligenz	Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination	BDM|	Rheinland Military Guard	Braunschweig	Lawful Rheinland Military Intelligence Faction.
Daumann Heavy Construction		DHC-	Daumann Heavy Construction	None	The largest mining and manufacturing firm in Rheinland.
Das Wilde		Wilde.	The Wild	Omega-55	An army of Nomad infested humans, primarily from Rheinland.
Krüger Mineralien		Kruger|	Kruger Minerals	None	Kruger Minerals is one of the two large mining corporations in Rheinland, heavily involved in diamond and ore mining as well as H-Fuel processing.

Gallia Player Factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
La Marine Royale Gauloise		MRG|	Gallic Royal Navy	Ile-de-France	The Marine Royale Gauloise is the reformed primary fleet of the Gallic Royal Navy.
The Council		[C]-	The Council	Champagne	The Council is a revolutionary movement within Gallia who's primary objective is to overthrow the ruling monarchy. They have liberated two planets from the monarchies rule and opened passages through the minefields separating Sirius from Gallia.

Hispania Player Factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
The Brotherhood		[TBH]	Corsairs	Omicron Omega	Ancient fellowship of Corsairs, composed primarily of valiant warriors and brave men and women, dedicated to upholding the values of Honor, Dignity and Pride within and outside Corsair territory.
National Council		NC	Maltese	Omicron Alpha	The government of the Nazione Maltese.

Trans-Sirius factions

Name	Logo	Tag	Affiliation	Home system	Description
The Archangels Fighter Club		{AFC}-	Freelancer (Faction)	Coronado	The Archangels Fighter Club are a group of adrenaline-crazed, shady racers that occasionally do mercenary, escort or transport jobs. Unlawful action are kept secret, but their lifestyle does not often go well with local authorities.
Auxesia		A/)-	Quasi-Lawful	Inverness	Auxesia is a significantly sized pseudoreligious, transhuman organisation dedicated to ensuring technological archiving and preservation of lifeforms across the Sector. Their goals, beyond archiving, involve advancing and securing technology through any means, observing the everyday environment and generally obtaining knowledge where they can.
Bounty Hunters Guild (player faction)		BHG	Freelancer (Faction)	Coronado	The Forlorn Hope are a group of independent mercenaries.
Forlorn Hope Company		Forlorn	Freelancer (Faction)	Coronado	The Forlorn Hope are a group of independent mercenaries.
FreeLancing Escorts & Repairs		[FL-ER]	Freelancer (Faction)	Coronado	FL-ER wants to empower all the lone freelancers around sirius, by protecting and educating them.
The Angels		[Angels]	Neutral	None	Player faction that helps out new players
The Colonial Republic		CR|	Colonial Remnant	Coronado, Tau-44 (formerly)	Arriving in Sirius from the Crayter sector at the turn of the century, the Colonials now fight to reclaim the Taus from Gallia and the Maltese
The Core		Core|	The Core	Omicron Delta	The primary fleet of The Core exterminate all resistance met in the Edge Worlds whilst paving the way for the expansion of Omicronia.
Independent Miners Guild		IMG|	Independent Miners Guild	Tau-23	Loose, yet widespread group of miners originating from Bretonia and Rheinland that have spread to many parts of Sirius and have a large vested interest in the Tau systems.
Ingenuus Research Group		IMG|	Zoner	Omicron Kappa	The Ingenuus Research Group are a group of Scientists and Researchers whose background originated within the Zoners of Sirius, though employs some non-Zoners as well.
The Junkers Congress		.:j:.	Junkers	Puerto Rico	Four commonly-held primary principles govern the operational motives of the Junker Congress: Power -- Profitability -- Security -- Freedom
The Junker Marauders		JM	Junkers	Texas	The Junker Marauders are a group of nomadic Junkers who rove the Borderworlds and other secluded areas of space in search of loot and plunder. Either naturally, via the salvaging of lost wrecks and collection of floating scrap, or by force; the Junker Marauders are not afraid to use violence in order to get what they want.
The Slomon K'Hara		K'Hara|	Nomads	Omicron-99, Omicron Iota	Remnants of the Nomads within the Sirius Sector.
Omicron Supply Industries		OSI-	Zoners	Omega-49 (defacto)	Zoner enterprise supplying Zoner bases throughout Sirius.
The Oracle		Oracle|	Freelancer (Faction)	Unknown	The Oracles exist because they act as middle ground between humanity and nomads.
The Order		Order|	The Order	Omicron-100	The primary fleet of the Order is dedicated to the defense of Order territories, the destruction of all alien factions (Das Wilde, Slomon K'Hara) and the protection of Liberty from aliens.
Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army		SCRA|	Coalition	Omega-52	Descendants and recruits of Coalition saboteurs aboard the Hispania, violently opposed to almost every faction in Sirius.
Temporary Autonomous Zoners		[TAZ]	Zoners	Baffin	Religious order of Zoners based around the ancient Earth religion of Discordianism.
Primary Artificial Intelligence		<PRIME>	Artificial Intelligence	Omicron Kappa	The Primary Artificial Intelligence is located in Omicron Kappa. Even though Sirius has gained awareness of its existence, the AI Prime is in a state similar to a child, exploring Sirius for the first time, fulfilling their tasks and following their logic instincts. The major tasks are defined in gathering, collecting and aggressively converting any available knowledge. The true nature, full motives and origins of the group still remains hidden, but some people purposely started to call them "The Encyclopaedists", after their lust for knowledge.