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FREELANCER FACTIONS
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Liberty Police, Inc. |
| Liberty Police, Inc. (LPI) is a private
company that handles the policing of Liberty space to interdict the
importation of contraband and to prevent attacks on civilian and commercial
traffic. |
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Liberty Security Force |
| The Liberty Security Force (LSF) is the
intelligence branch of the Liberty Armed Forces, operating in secrecy to
ensure the free flow of goods and services in the Liberty economy. |
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Liberty Navy |
| 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. |
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Bretonia Police |
| Officers in the Bretonia Police
Authority are well-trained, well-armed, and widely considered to be a
bastion of incorruptibility. |
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Bretonia Armed Forces |
| The Bretonia Armed Forces has a long
history of serving as the first and last line of defence for the great
nation Bretonia. |
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Kusari Police |
| The Kusari State Police is a disciplined
force of career personnel assigned to guard the borders of Kusari space and
protect Kusari commercial interests. |
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Kusari Naval Forces |
| The Kusari Naval Forces is highly
organized and possesses all of the considerable technological advantages
inferred by Kusari industry. |
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Rheinland Police |
| The Rheinland Federal Police is an
impressively well-equipped organization acting as the primary security force
in Rheinland space. |
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Rheinland Military |
| The Rheinland Military continues a proud
tradition of military service that stretches back several centuries. |
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ALG Waste Disposal |
| ALG Waste Disposal is based in Rheinland
but operates throughout the colonies due to its outstanding reputation for
industrial clean-up. |
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Border World Exports |
| Bowex Shipping Company is a pioneer in
the exploration of the Border Worlds and the exclusive supplier to the
Bretonian military and police. |
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BMM |
| Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM)
is one of the largest commercial concerns in Bretonia, a network of
semi-autonomous operations that range throughout Bretonian space. |
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Gateway Shipping |
| Gateway Shipping is a Bretonian firm
catering to smaller companies that hauls raw materials across the Border and
Independent Worlds. |
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Cryer Pharmaceuticals |
| Cryer Pharmaceuticals is headquartered
in Liberty and markets a wide array of both commercially available and
restricted-class drugs. |
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Interspace Commerce |
| Interspace Commerce (IC) is one of the
"Big Three" Liberty companies and insures cargo carried within the colonies
and into the Border Worlds. |
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Daumann Heavy Construction |
| Daumann Heavy Construction is the
largest mining and manufacturing firm in Rheinland. |
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Kishiro Technologies |
| Kishiro Technologies is one of the great
Kusari keiretsu -- sprawling, vertically integrated companies that control
whole industries. |
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Kruger Minerals |
| Kruger Minerals works in partnership
with ALG Waste Disposal to mine the valuable resources within Rheinland and
its neighbouring territories. |
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Deep Space Engineering |
| Deep Space Engineering has an exclusive
contract with fellow Liberty company Ageira Technologies to build Jump Gates
and Trade Lanes throughout the Sirius Sector. |
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Synth Foods, Inc. |
| Synth Foods is the Liberty firm
responsible for the revolutionary Food product Synth Paste and a highly
successful line of Food-producing bio domes. |
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Orbital Spa and Cruise |
| Orbital Spa and Cruise operates an array
of resorts and luxury liners throughout the Sirius Sector. |
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Republican Shipping |
| Republican Shipping manages a
substantial majority of all cargo transported within the borders of
Rheinland. |
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Samura Industries |
| Samura Industries is one of the great
Kusari keiretsu -- sprawling, vertically integrated companies that control
whole industries. |
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Universal Shipping |
| Universal Shipping is one of the "Big
Three" Liberty companies and specializes in the shipping of high-risk,
high-value cargo. |
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Planetform, Inc. |
| Planetform Inc. specializes in the
terraforming of non-viable planets in Bretonia and elsewhere. |
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Ageira Technologies |
| Ageira Technologies is one of the "Big
Three" Liberty companies and is responsible for the development of Jump Gate
and Trade Lane technology. |
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Blood Dragons |
| The Blood Dragons are a terrorist
organization supposedly descended from the royal guard of Shogun Hideyoshi
-- deposed during a coup several centuries before -- and are dedicated to
the overthrow of the current Kusari government. |
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Bundschuh |
| The Bundschuh are a populist political
faction that has been declared "enemy of the State" by the Rheinland
Reichstag. |
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Corsairs |
| The Corsairs are believed to be the
largest criminal organization operating in Sirius -- frequently attacking
civilian, commercial, and even military targets. |
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Farmers Alliance |
| The Farmers Alliance is a Kusari
political organization formed to lobby for government subsidies and
restrictions on the sale of foreign Food. |
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Gaians |
| The Gaians are a terrorist faction
opposed to any alteration to the natural environment of a planet,
specifically those brought about through terraforming. |
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Golden Chrysanthemums |
| The Golden Chrysanthemums are a
terrorist organization seeking to the overthrow the Kusari government and
institute a matriarchy. |
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Hogosha |
| The Hogosha are a quasi-legal
organization that ostensibly exists to promote the "welfare and prosperity
of the Kusari people." |
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Junkers |
| Junkers are an itinerant population of
unknown origin who comb debris fields looking for scrap and equipment that
can either be repurposed or sold for cash. |
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Lane Hackers |
| The Lane Hackers are a criminal group
with the technical expertise to monitor and disrupt Trade Lanes for the
purpose of seizing valuable cargo. |
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Liberty Rogues |
| Rogues are a motley assortment of petty
criminals who operate mainly in Liberty, attacking targets of opportunity or
occasionally working for larger criminal organizations. |
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LWB |
| The LWB, or Landwirtrechtbewegung
(farmers' rights movement), is believed to be engaged in attacks on Synth
Foods operations and sympathetic government officials in retaliation for
Rheinland concessions to the Liberty Food conglomerate. |
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Mollys |
| The Mollys are a separatist group
committed to freeing the Dublin system from Bretonian rule through violent
attacks on civilian, commercial, and military targets. |
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Outcasts |
| Little information is available about
the Outcasts, but they are believed to be heavily involved in the
trafficking of the drug Cardamine. |
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Red Hessians |
| The Red Hessians are a criminal group
composed largely of unemployed miners operating out of Rheinland space who
attack civilian and commercial targets of opportunity. |
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The Order |
| The Order is a terrorist organization of
unknown size whose agenda has not yet been determined. |
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Unioners |
| The Unioners are a terrorist group
composed of dispossessed Rheinland shipyard workers who engage in brutal
reprisals chiefly against Republican Shipping. |
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Xenos |
| The Xenos are a loosely affiliated
terrorist organization opposed to any trade or other interaction with
foreign entities. |
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Gas Miners Guild |
| The Gas Mining Guild (GMG) is a
tight-knit professional organization that acts as the primary supplier of
H-Fuel to the four major Houses. |
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Independent Miners Guild |
| The Independent Mining Guild (IMG) is a
loose confederation of miners who work those fields that have thus far
remained undeveloped by the larger mining companies. |
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Zoners |
| Zoners are a diverse group of
individuals who, for various reasons, have decided to live in the wild and
unregulated systems outside of colonial control. |
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Bounty Hunters Guild |
| The Bounty Hunters Guild originally
began in Texas but has spread to almost every system in Sirius, providing a
broad array of security-oriented services for a reasonable fee. |
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