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There are many enemies in Piratez, each belonging to a specific faction. The factions with the most power, territory stretching across the world, are referred to as the global factions. Factions not listed here are considered part of the minor groups.
Earth is now ruled by the Star Gods, their will is carried out by several organizations that they communicate directly with and authorized them exclusive travelling permission. These groups are the Academy, the Traders Guild, the Church of Sirius, the Mercenaries, and the Governments of the world.
The Academy
The Academy
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Status: GLOBAL POWER
The 'Academy' is a local organisation sponsored by the Star Gods governor. They are charged with exploring the ever-shifting wasteland that is Earth and researching new forms of mutated life. In practice, they scout mutant communities and indirectly help the government in efficiently policing them. Most of them use standard human equipment and can be easily looted, but Academy is perfectly able to put its vast resources to work and deploy high-tech guns and robotic weapons.
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Source: Piratez Bootypedia
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The Church of Sirius
The Church of Sirius
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Status: GLOBAL POWER
From the lowliest neophyte to the high bishops, the Church of Sirius reveres the Star Gods with a fanatical fervour and tries to coerce everyone else into doing the same, peacefully or otherwise. Even if the Star Gods rarely respond to summons (and reasonable people prefer them not to), this does little to shake the Church's faith; the Star Gods are to be worshipped and obeyed without question no matter what they do, else they may get angry and extinguish all life on our planet. The Church is very useful to the Stellar Empire as watchdogs, scrutinizing the other major factions for any signs of disloyalty and receiving some modest rewards in exchange.
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Source: Piratez Bootypedia
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The Mercenaries
The Mercenaries
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Status: FRACTURED INTERSTELLAR NETWORK
The toughest, strongest and most ruthless of Earth's mutants can easily find employment in mercenary companies, that are more like private-owned military forces, armed to the teeth and extremely dangerous. It is ironic how their actual standing is obviously higher than that of pureblood human factions - while the Mercenaries work for anyone who can afford them, it is the Star Gods government who is their biggest customer.
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Source: Piratez Bootypedia
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The Star Gods
The Star Gods
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Status: INTERSTELLAR POWER
It's weird how little we know of the Star Gods, our self-proclaimed masters, beyond that they've conquered Earth at some point and now treat us as dirt. Now, after having interrogated one of them, we know that they prefer to rule our planet indirectly, using the great factions to do their dirty job and only intervening when necessary. Each and every one of them is incredibly tenacious, vicious and hostile; combined with their freaky magic they are not an enemy we want to fight on a daily basis. Luckily, they seem to need our people and economy for some sort of galactic war the Star Empire wages against some other freaks; otherwise they'd probably kill us all with a virus or something...
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Source: Piratez Bootypedia
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The Traders Guild
The Traders Guild
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Status: GLOBAL POWER
The Traders, unlike population at large, are allowed to freely travel around the Earth and barter their goods. They are crucial for the Star Gods overseers to maintain control over the planet, keeping the smaller local govts from attaining too much economical autonomy. The Traders have access to the Stellar Empire technology and possess great wealth in ships and other goods. They are the prime target of our operations.
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Source: Piratez Bootypedia
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World Governments
Provincial Governments
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Status: MULTIPLE LOCAL POWERS
The local Govts might not have an access to such amounts of hi-tech resources as the big factions, but on the other hand, they command a lot of loyal people, as 70% or so of the global population is under their rule, as opposed to maybe 5% commanded by all the factions combined. The Govts might tolerate our actions, as we keep the global factions on their toes, and it's generally cheaper for them to pay us protection money, but if we make too many enemies within their ranks, we'll be done for.
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Source: Piratez Bootypedia
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