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Factions

23 entries tagged Factions, 23 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Cerberus and Systems Alliance.

Andromeda Initiative: the one-way voyage to the Heleus ClusterThe Andromeda Initiative was a privately funded, multi-species project to settle the Andromeda galaxy. Founded by Jien Garson in 2176, it sent the Nexus and its arks across dark space in 2185, and they reached the Heleus Cluster more than six centuries later to find almost nothing as promised.
Citadel Fleet: the Council's defence force and what one battle cost itThe Citadel Fleet was the Council's main space defence force, mostly turian ships led by the asari dreadnought Destiny Ascension. Sovereign's attack in 2183 caught it scattered across the relays, and Shepard decides who survives.
Alliance Navy: Humanity's FleetThe Alliance Navy was the space combat branch of the Systems Alliance military, charged with defending Earth and its colonies. Numbering several thousand ships across multiple fleets, it was one of the greater naval forces in Citadel space and bore the brunt of the fighting during the Reaper War.
Aria T'Loak: The Pirate Queen of OmegaAria T'Loak was the de facto ruler of the space station Omega, an asari of centuries' experience who governed the lawless heart of the Terminus Systems with an iron grip. Driven from her throne by Cerberus, she fought beside Commander Shepard to retake it during the Reaper War.
Asari CommandosAsari commandos, also called huntresses, were powerful asari biotics who formed the elite of their species' military. Fighting in small guerrilla bands during the maiden stage of their long lives, they ranked among the finest individual warriors in the galaxy.
Asari RepublicsThe Asari Republics were the loose, consensus-driven government of the asari, the most influential species in the galaxy. As the first contemporary race to settle the Citadel, the asari were instrumental in founding the Citadel Council and remained at the heart of galactic society.
Batarian HegemonyThe Batarian Hegemony was the oppressive, isolationist government of the batarians, native to Khar'shan. A rogue state hostile to the Systems Alliance, it sponsored deniable piracy and slaving across the Terminus Systems before the Reapers overran it.
Blood PackThe Blood Pack was a brutal mercenary group built around krogan muscle and vorcha cannon fodder, founded by the exiled Battlemaster Ganar Wrang and based in the Terminus Systems. Banned from Citadel space, they took the contracts no other gang would touch, favoring overwhelming violence over discretion.
Blue SunsThe Blue Suns were one of the galaxy's largest mercenary organizations, a private security outfit turned criminal empire operating out of the Skyllian Verge and the Terminus Systems. Founded by Zaeed Massani and Vido Santiago, they grew into a fearsome force spanning dozens of systems before crossing paths with Commander Shepard.
CerberusCerberus was a clandestine, human-supremacist paramilitary organization led by the Illusive Man, willing to use any means to advance humanity's place in the galaxy. Branded a terrorist group by both the Systems Alliance and the Citadel Council, it was ultimately destroyed during the Reaper War.
Citadel CouncilThe Citadel Council was the executive committee that governed Citadel space from the Citadel Tower, composed of representatives of the asari, salarians, and turians, and was the ultimate authority over Council law, interspecies disputes, and the covert Spectre agents.
Citadel Security Services: C-SecCitadel Security Services, known as C-Sec, was the volunteer police force responsible for law enforcement aboard the Citadel. Answering to the Citadel Council and led by an Executor, its constables kept order across the station's vast, crowded wards and the space around it.
EclipseEclipse was a mercenary corporation founded by the asari commando Jona Sederis, prized for advanced equipment, heavy use of biotics, and a willingness to take any contract a client could afford. It blended security work with a vast smuggling operation and counted among the three rival syndicates that ruled Omega's underworld.
M-27 Scimitar: Ariake Assault ShotgunThe M-27 Scimitar was an assault shotgun manufactured by Ariake Technologies, built around twin mass effect generators that gave it an unusually rapid rate of fire. Developed for the Eclipse, it grew popular across the mercenary bands of the Terminus.
Migrant FleetKnown to its people as the Flotilla, the Migrant Fleet was the vast collection of starships that became home to the quarians after the geth drove them from their world. Some fifty thousand vessels carried seventeen million quarians across the galaxy in a centuries-long exile.
Salarian UnionThe Salarian Union was the labyrinthine, matrilineal government of the salarians, the second species to join the Citadel Council. Masters of espionage and bleeding-edge technology, the salarians shaped the krogan, the genophage, and the founding of the Spectres.
Shadow BrokerThe Shadow Broker was an enigmatic figure at the head of a vast organization that trafficked in information, always selling to the highest bidder. By ensuring no client ever gained a lasting advantage, the Broker kept the galaxy trading secrets and itself in business, its true identity hidden for decades.
Special Tasks GroupThe Special Tasks Group was the salarian espionage organization, deployed by the Citadel Council or the Salarian Union for counterterrorism, infiltration, and assassination. Its wartime effectiveness provided the template for the Council's Spectre program.
SpectreSpectres were agents entrusted by the Citadel Council with extraordinary authority, including the power of life and death over the galaxy's people. Operating outside the law to preserve galactic stability, they were drawn from the finest operatives of the Council races and answered to no one but the Council itself.
SpectresThe Spectres were an elite corps of agents granted extraordinary authority by the Citadel Council, charged with preserving galactic stability by any means necessary. Officially above the law and answerable to no one but the Council, they were hand-picked for exceptional ability from across the species of the galaxy.
Systems AllianceThe Systems Alliance was the supranational government of Earth and its colonies, acting as humanity's military, exploratory, and economic arm in Citadel space. Within decades of its founding it won humanity a Council seat and led the galaxy's defense during the Reaper War.
Terminus SystemsThe Terminus Systems were a vast, ungoverned region beyond Citadel space, home to a loose affiliation of minor species united only in refusing the Council's authority. A haven for piracy, the slave trade, and mercenary gangs, the Terminus centered on the trade hub of Omega.
Turian HierarchyThe Turian Hierarchy was the government of the turian people, a regimented meritocracy built around military and public service. It earned a Citadel Council seat for its role in the Krogan Rebellions and contributed the largest share of the Citadel Fleet.