It was decided in the dev team, some time ago, that all factions but the 4 first will be removed, (e.g. #3629).

@impaktor I do not see a collective decision to delete factions in #3629

@Gliese852 Indeed, it's taken for given there, I don't remember who/where the discussion was had, and if anyone is wondering, I don't think I was the driving force behind it, although I agree with it. Spamming the universe with +100 factions, that differ only in "a name" and "a color" (sure, there's the illegal goods list), is not meaningful, compared to a handful of hand scripted, that truly give different "feeling" when being there. Just like in Frontier: being in Imperial vs. Alliance vs. Federation space did feel different, the stations, the adverts, the military, the ships on sale, the market prices, etc.

@impaktor yes, I understand your position, but I think that space is huge, and there must be a lot of things. And I'm sure there must be room for any number of factions if contributors want to describe them. Personally, I like to explore space and see all these homeworlds of factions, it seems that there is a lot of life.

I just suggested to Gliese in chat a quest to visit all the faction homeworlds.

Maybe its best to gradually replace the autogenerated factions over time and also reduce the number to ~50-80 or so, with a handful of large dominating factions and the rest being smaller less expansive.

If my lore ideas gets added, factions would gain a bunch more substance and become more tangible.

@joonicks I could cherry-pick this PR on top of master after removing the conflicting files with git rm.
The illegal goods names was changed in c4109e0 so the ones in all caps gives a warning.

Lua Warning: Faction[Julian science community]: Invalid commodity name LIQUOR passed to IllegalGoodsProbability.

I messed up and based my changes on an old git and now I dont know how to fix it proper

It looks like all changes suggested in review have been done. If the English is acceptable I think this should be merged.

Hmmmmm just a though what if there were 2 start modes

year 3224 and
Humanity has expanded exponentially with new tech nad has developed the local cluster.
like in the wars there have been many splinter groups but things ha settled in the last 300
years with these advances in tec etc. splinter groups have moved to the edge and the main rivals of centralized powers remains as 3-10 factions around sol.

year 30224
as the stalemate and bureaucracy progresses there is a growing dynamic on the edge and
more and more people establish factions around the

@joonicks Hi! I had a go at rebasing this but I'm not a member and can't push to this branch so I issued a new PR of one commit, in your name, that replaces this one. I hope you're fine with this. ;)
#5892