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Factions

21 entries tagged Factions, 21 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Sovereign Colonies and EarthGov.

Magpies: the illegal salvage crews of known spaceMagpie was the name given to freelance miners who worked outside the law across human space, running small crews and stolen mineral hauls in systems no licensed operator would touch. Four Magpie ships under the loose command of Captain Jessica Li were working the Aegis System when the derelict USG Ishimura shocked into their operation and killed almost every one of them.
Mars: the second hub of the Sol systemMars was one of the most heavily settled worlds after Earth, a planet of corporations, docks and shipyards centred on the city-state of Mars Capita. Its independence riots in the late twenty fifth century were extremely violent, and they shaped a generation of Martians who left the planet afterward and turned up on colonies across settled space.
Ptolemy Station: the triangulation post of the Sovereign ColoniesPtolemy Station was the orbital facility the Sovereign Colonies built to trace the master signal that every Marker was receiving. Its findings commissioned the expedition to Tau Volantis, its staff was written out of existence by Scenario Five in 2314, and two centuries later its pylons were fired one last time before the USM Eudora blew the station apart.
Uxor: the colony where the Circle opened its warUxor was an EarthGov colony world chosen to host Marker Shroud 4, one of the shielded test sites at the heart of the government Marker program. In 2514 the Circle stripped the shroud away with a single guided strike, and the outbreak that followed set Sergeant John Carver on the road to Tau Volantis.
Concordance Extraction Corporation: The Planet-CrackersThe Concordance Extraction Corporation was the mining concern that pioneered Planet Cracking and ended the Resource Wars, operating the deep-space fleet led by the USG Ishimura. Its reach made it a vehicle for the Church of Unitology and the retrieval of Marker 3A.
Craig MarkoffCraig Markoff was a Sovereign Colonies military officer who led the extraction of the Black Marker in 2214. After the outbreak that sank the artifact, he and the psychologist Stevens murdered Michael Altman and used his name to found the Church of Unitology.
Daina Le GuinDaina Le Guin was a high ranking Unitologist who helped orchestrate the Necromorph outbreak on Titan Station and led the Church's effort to seize Isaac Clarke for his ability to build Red Markers.
EarthGovEarthGov was the centralized regime that replaced the Sovereign Colonies after the Secession War, ruling humanity from an Earth-centric core. Its decision to revive the Marker program and harvest the artifacts' energy spread the Necromorph threat across the colonies.
Emmeline AyubaEmmeline Ayuba was a journalist on Ganymede who went undercover in the Church of Unitology to expose a murder and search for her missing sister. After she was made to commune with a Red Marker, she emerged a convinced believer and became a leader of the Church on Ganymede.
Hans TiedemannHans Tiedemann was EarthGov's Director of Operations on Titan Station who oversaw Project Telomere and the building of the Site 12 Marker, then defied his superiors to evacuate the station when the Necromorphs broke loose.
Jacob DanikJacob Arthur Danik was a high ranking Unitologist and leader of the militant sect known as the Circle, who waged war on EarthGov to free the Markers and pursued Isaac Clarke to Tau Volantis, where his actions awakened the Brethren Moons.
Michael AltmanMichael Altman was the geophysicist who in 2214 revealed the Black Marker to humanity as the first proof of alien life, and whose murder was twisted into the founding martyrdom of the Church of Unitology.
Oracle ProgramThe Oracle Program was a covert EarthGov operation devoted to retrieval and secrecy, created to assess the threat of the Necromorphs. Its agents, the Oracles, worked in white-clad pairs armed with Stasis rings and laser weapons, answering to authority higher than the government's own.
Randall CarrRandall Carr was a Unitologist of the Circle and Jacob Danik's second-in-command. After Danik's death and the failure of Convergence on Tau Volantis, he tried to lead the survivors home before a new flesh cult overran them.
ScraperThe Scrapers were deranged Unitologists of the Circle who turned to a new flesh cult after the failure of Convergence on Tau Volantis. Wearing sacks over their heads and clawed contraptions on their arms, they mutilated themselves as offerings to the Brethren Moons.
Sovereign ColoniesThe Sovereign Colonies was the global government that united Earth and its early off-world settlements, custodian of the Black Marker and architect of the secret Red Marker program. Its discovery of the Brethren Moons led it to purge all Marker knowledge under Scenario Five.
StevensStevens was a psychologist on the floating facility that held Michael Altman and the other Black Marker scientists in 2214. After the outbreak there, he and the military officer Craig Markoff murdered Altman and founded the Church of Unitology in his name.
The CircleThe Circle was an extremist militant sect of the Church of Unitology led by Jacob Arthur Danik. Numbering in the millions and funded by the Church's vast fortune, it waged a violent war against EarthGov to free the Markers, and its remnants gave rise to a new cult that worshipped the Brethren Moons.
Unitologist CultThe Unitologist Cult was a new church formed by survivors of the Circle aboard the CMS Terra Nova, who mutilated their bodies to resemble Necromorphs in worship of the Brethren Moons.
Unitologist SoldiersThe Unitologist Soldiers were the foot soldiers of the Circle, fanatically loyal to Jacob Arthur Danik and the Church of Unitology. They fought to free the Markers on Tau Volantis, and many fell to the same Necromorph plague they had hoped to unleash.
Church of UnitologyThe Church of Unitology was the most influential religion in human space, born from the death of Michael Altman and built on the belief that the Markers promised rebirth and unity in death. Its faith in Convergence ultimately served the very forces that meant to consume humanity.