✦ Overview ✦

An alternative to the Claims & Community System, Factions are less based on Eras & Resources and more based on Reputation and Flexibility. A somewhat "Simpler System" than Communities.

| Faction System - Starting Out |

✦ Start Up ✦

Starting a faction isn't something that costs nothing friend, instead it costs cap, charm & experience. In fact it specifically costs 1,000 caps reduced by Charisma Score * 10 AND Level * 10 caps.

✦ Passive Recruitment ✦

When you start a faction you gain 5 Tier 1 NPCs of your choice of type, then when a player joins the faction (yourself included) you gain +1d4 NPC recruits! (This cannot be done multiple times per character)

| Faction System - Reputation, Fame & Infamy |

✦ Reputation ✦

The currency of Factions, Reputation is the means of upgrading a faction. It is the currency for gaining troops, upgrading them, making installations installations or other such boons.

✦ Fame & Infamy ✦

Gained via attending events, quests, encounters and simialr - Fame & Infamy are added together, then divided by two. That rounded number becoming your Reputation State. However the number of your Fame and or Infamy is also required to gain some Installations or similar boons.

| Faction System - Participants |

Paricipants are NPCs who take up population of a community. As well, they come with a few different statistics to be tracked which can be discussed here.

✦ NPC Types ✦

Types of NPCs:
    Fighter - Your average fighting force member. They start as Tier 1 fighters when recruited.
    Auxillary - Your average non-fighting force member. They start as a Tier 1 Auxillary.
    Civilian - Your average noncombatant. They start as a tier 1 Civilian.

✦ NPC Tier ✦

NPCs start at tier 1 and can go up based on your faction identity but by base cannot be increased past tier 1. Each tier taking a rising amount of reputation invested to upgrade and must gain prior tiers to go up to the next tier. These NPCS start as the basic tier block for a chosen npc category.

Tiers & Cost:
    Tier 1 - Costs 1 Reputation to recruit

    Tier 2 - Costs 2 Reputation to upgrade

    Tier 3 - Costs 3 Reputation to upgrade
    Tier 4 - Costs 4 Reputation to upgrade

    Tier 5 - Costs 5 Reputation to upgrade

✦ NPC Specialty ✦

NPCs come in a variety of Specialty that can be assigned to them but are based around what type they are. These specialties can be granted to an NPC at the cost of 3 Reputation.

Fighter Specialties:
    Warrior - Gain +5 per tier to a chosen combat skill & +1 HP per tier.

    Garrison - Gain +1 per tier to reactions and +1 to cover effects.

    Rallymaster - Gain +Tier to Charisma Variable range and can spend 2 AP to grant an ally -1 DoD to a roll.

Auxillary Specialties:

    Wayfinder - Gain +2 mvmnt speed & +1 PER tier.
    Medic - Gain +5 per tier to medical rolls and can use a medical item or chem as a free action once per turn.

    Engineer - Gain +5 to Repair & Science per Tier & can use a repair kit or robot repair kit as a free action once      per turn.

Citizen Specialties:
    Worker - Can be tied to an Installation.
    Merchant - Can become a player shop or gain the faction +5*Tier Caps per day.

    Logistics - Increase community tied bonuses by +1 per tier.

✦ NPC Discipline ✦

NPCs can be diversified in their stat block further within their tier  by spending the cost to gain a discipline at the cost of the equivilant tier's reputation, though if an NPC has a discipline and is tier'd up they must spend the cost on to gain a new discipline within their new tier, though they can do it at minus the reputation cost they've already spent on previous discipline(s).

| Faction System - Faction Identity |

A faction's identity makes up a lot of what makes them special, and they have two of them to boot!

✦ Caravaners ✦
1. Faction can run Caravans & Merchant's tier limit is increased by +1.
2. Faction gains 32 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you can assign Worker to the community to increase their Material by the combined Worker Tier total.

✦ Doctors ✦
1. Faction medic's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction gains 16 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community can increase their happiness by the faction's total Medic Tiers combined.

✦ Engineering Corps ✦
1. Faction engineer's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction gains 16 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you can assign engineers to the community to increase their Power or Water by the combined Engineer Tier total.

✦ Guardsmen ✦
1. Faction Garrison Fighter's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction gains 16 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you can assign Garrison Fighters to the community to increase their Defense by the combined Garrison Tier total.

✦ Humanitarian ✦
1. Faction Worker's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction gains 16 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you can assign Worker to the community to increase their Food by the combined Worker Tier total.

✦ Mercenaries ✦
1. Faction Warrior's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction Garrison's tier limit is increased by +2.
3. Faction gains 32 caps per day.

✦ Preachers ✦
1. Faction morale loss is halved.
2. Faction gains 16 caps per day.
3. Faction reputation costs on upgrading NPCS are done at -1

✦ Prospectors ✦
1. Faction Wayfinder's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction gains 32 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you can assign Wayfinder to the community to increase their Material by the combined Wayfinder Tier total.

✦ Raider Gang ✦
1. Faction can run Raiding Parties & gain +1 Infamy when Infamy is gained.
2. Faction gains 32 caps per day.
3. Faction Warrior's tier limit is increased by +2.

✦ Slavers ✦
1. Faction gains 1d4 Worker Slaves on a "Population Increase".
2. Faction gains 64 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you can assign Workers to act as Laborers, Farmers or Ranchers for a settlement.

✦ Soldiers ✦
1. Faction Warrior's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction Garrison's tier limit is increased by +2.
3. Faction Rallymaster's tier limit is increased by +2.

✦ Traders ✦
1. Faction Merchant's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction gains 64 caps per day.
3. Faction, if tied to a community you gain that community half your income as well.

✦ Tribesmen ✦
1. Faction Warrior's tier limit is increased by +2.
2. Faction Wayfinder's tier limit is increased by +2.
3. Faction specialty cost is halved.

| Faction System - Installations |

| Faction System - Morale |

Morale sits in opposition to Reputation as how happy your troops are. This number goes down over time and from failiure and must be offset to continue your faction's growth.

Morale Decay:
    Monthly - Faction Morale decreased by 5%

    Inactive Monthly - Faction Morale decreased by 10%

    NPC Death - Faction Morale decreased by 10%
    Player Death - Faction Morale decreased by 25%
    Inoptimal Mission - Faction Morale decreased by 10% (Your faction attends a partially failed combat event)
    Mission Failiure - Faction Morale decreased by 20% (Your faction attends a failed combat event)

Morale Boons:

    Player Joins - Faction Morale increased by 10%
    Funeral - Faction Morale increased by 5% (Roleplay Funeral done when NPCs/Player die, does not stack per death)
    Mission Success - Faction Morale increased by 10% (Your faction attends a successful combat event)
    Socialize - Faction Morale increased by 10% (Your faction attends a social event)
    R&R - Faction Morale increased by 10% (Your faction runs a player event)
    High Value Acquisition - Faction Morale increased by 10% (Your faction acquires a "High Value Asset".)

Moral Thresholds:
    <50% Morale - You cannot recruit new NPCs.
    <25% Morale - NPCs might begin to abandoned the Faction.

    0% Morale - The Faction is disbanded

| Faction System - Squadrons |

✦ Overview ✦

Factions gain access to a more diversified selection of squadron flavors depending on the Faction's Indentities. Creating a squad costs Reputation equal to half the combined Tier of the NPCs forming the squad. (Note: If a faction has two identities the squad it is done -1 reputation cost.)