Editing Have Rocketship Will Travel (section)

== Known Factions ==

'''The Frontier Trade Corporation (FTC):'''

The main antagonist of the setting. A massive and imperialistic trade corporation chartered by the Earth directorate that rules the trade lanes with an iron fist.

'''The Independents:''' 

A group that exists solely to fight the FTC. Their members come from those whose lives were destroyed or way of life threatened by the encroachment of the FTC and its usurpation of the autonomy of the local colonies.

'''The Wraiths:'''

A small coalition of beings, the survivors of groups and cultures crushed or annihilated by the FTC's greed. Numbering a few hundred at most, the Wraiths are varied and diverse, but united in their hatred of the FTC. They are violent extremists who attack FTC assets with extreme prejudice, and are not shy about casualties. The FTC considers them to be nothing more than especially ruthless bandits, but certain members of the Wraiths possess far-reaching powers and influence. Possibly a more extreme offshoot of the Independents.

'''Pirate's Guild'''

A loose alliance of privateers, smugglers and freeholds that sprung up in the aftermath of the Atomic War. Although their activities expand far beyond piracy of FTC trade lanes, they have happily appropriated the moniker that the corporation uses to refer to them.

'''Monopsychics'''

A growing religion that believes Mankind's destiny lies in accessing the collective Human subconscious, a pool of consciousness that we leave when born and return to after death. They believe that by accessing this while alive, you can achieve knowledge and enlightenment. It's a fairly new movement, and it's hard to see how the FTC would have much of a policy toward it yet, any moreso than any other religion.

'''Sun-children (Sternenkinder Sol-vellis, Atellain):'''

A multiplanetary religion that hold to a simple but strange belief: stars are eggs, and those eggs will someday hatch. Some graft this onto the framework of other religions, attributing to certain stars the names of their own religious figures, or asserting that that which hatches from the sun-eggs will be angels, demigods, or the last and greatest species, which will then dominate the universe. Some take a more metaphorical view, seeing stars as intelligent beings whose minds work on a vastly different scale than that of most beings; their "hatching," therefore, will be them awakening to full awareness of the galaxy as a whole, and the other intelligent life that inhabits it. What will happen next differs based on the tale-teller, but most tend to predict either a new Golden Age . . . or the end of all.