My take on internal factions in Jovian Republic: *Heritage faction would seek to rebuild military position of the Jovian republic and destroy TITAN remnants on Earth, reclaiming it. It's mainly composed of former military and space navy staff, veterans of war with TITANS(including people who fought on the ground-think of Kyle Reese, Sarah Connor when thinking of their attitude and beliefs) *Alamo faction sees its goal to protect the last remains of "pure and untouched humans"(this one is in charge currently, most factions acknowledge the rest of transhumanity as spoiled at ultimately leading to repeat of the TITAN-like disaster), made mostly of escaped bioconservative politicians and intelligence officials/operatives *Third Option/Escapists faction-settling of other stars, grey colonies(asteroids sent into deep space with long term habitation goal and hidden)-various members, some adventurous military folks and scientists with mix of space navy people. *Patriarchs-rich families from military-industrial and energy complex of former USA together with some political dynasties that seek to continue their influential lifestyles and escape consequences of their contribution to the Fall(the Rich 6 are the most notable dynasties) Current regime is composed of Patriarch/Alamo faction Dissenters *radical bioconservatives who try to ban all kind of mods and introduce only Flat lifestyle, *Hermes Group-made in secret by original space colonists in Jovian facilites, engineers and some scientists who would like to tap the enourmous potential of Jupiter system in full(terrafroming Europa combined with biomods, gasbag life in atmosphere and so on) All those factions are not represented as parties-rather they cover various institutions and official parties in Jovian Republic, and compete for influence. The current power struggle is stable-with Alamo/Patriarch faction being in charge and bribing easily Heritage faction with funds for military and warfare research. The A/P rule welcomes the status quo even though they do want to boost military capabilities of JR. Heritage faction has its people in Intelligence services and would like to scheme a grand war in Sol System to cripple Planetary Consortium with Lunar and Morningstar powers starting war with PC, and planned later involvement of JR to take over Mars. Later with consolidated resources of Mars, Jovian system and Luna they plan to retake Earth. Rogue Patriarch members(mainly those from former political parties whose members were slaughtered during Exodus by PC) do assist them in covert ways. The least influential group(Third Option) is mainly attached to science and exploration research as well as threat assesment. The Jovians make good use of Reclaimers as their spying network, and have infiltrated several Reclaimer groups and factions. Heritage faction hopes to use them as terror/sabotage operatives in war against PC. There is also connection to Nine Lives involved with aftermath of secret operation by North American forces but that I will detail later. So what do you think ?

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I'd actually see them trying to go clean up someplace like Hawaii Madagascar or Australia to get a foothold while still being able to monitor the comings and goings to the island.

I have been thinking of similiar things, although Madagascar or Australia might be too big. I been thinking of safe havens like Ascension Island or Marquesas Islands. Perhaps a thread for potential targets of recolonization might be in order.

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I like this sketch.

Thanks-I think I will expand this somewhat more and start Jovian Briefings series-I wrote some other stuff on the Republic and perhaps it would be good to collect those creations in homebrew section on the forum.