Faction Perspective: Core
Brekengraf
It was interesting to try to come up with a scientific faction that is distinct from what I have planned with the Epoch Trust and the Xenarchs in the other settings. While I have no issue seeing the good they can do (they feed billions of people, have eradicated countless diseases and generally make people healthier all over the galaxy), the “genetic perfection” angle of their research risks becoming too dark for a Space Opera. Need to remember to keep them larger-than-life, just shy of comical, where “genetic advancement” involves super-soldiers and zombies and such, rather than… well, some very disturbing real-world stuff.
Interfaction Politics – Brekengraf Perspective:
The Ministry: Their restrictions on our own work are frustrating, but their opposition to all kinds of progress is even more damning. They’ve got the whole galaxy locked down, trapped in stagnant torpor. Just like individual organisms, civilizations need to grow, change, and evolve.
GalSec: Yesterday’s trash, trying to intimidate and strong-arm people into behaving. The subjects of the New Soldier project are more disciplined, more obedient and infinitely more effective than the troglodytes that GalSec attracts. They will soon be replaced, and things will be a lot smoother.
Iron Assembly: Our counterparts in the material goods sector are simultaneously quaint and aggravating, like a neighbor’s pet that won’t stop barking. Their lack of education, coupled with their crippling inferiority complex, has led to a volatile situation. The pet may need to be put down.
Dai’Rho: To no one’s surprise, the religious fanatics are vehemently opposed to our scientific advances. They prattle and preach about “life”, as if it was some untouchable holy thing. Their rhetoric has instigated violence on many occasions, causing setbacks and casualties at our key clinics and labs.
Heirs of Taaj: Our best clients are also our most dangerous foe. They’re terrified of what we can do for humanity. They’re terrified that we will do to their genetic superiority what the Ministry did to their authority; entirely supplant it. They want all our advances for them and them alone.