Faction Colors

Faction colors are the colors that represent each faction. They may be determined by considering the following:

* **Primary Color**: This is the color(s) of the faction's symbol; the color(s) the faction has chosen to represent themselves
* **Secondary Color:** The color(s) of the faction's ships on their faction sheet, representing the color of their fleet. This also includes the color of the faction's commodities section on their faction sheet if it differs from their fleet color
* **Tertiary Color:** Other colors associated with the faction (Home system, Color of unit values on faction sheet)

The most notable value of faction colors is determining association with play piece color (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Black, Purple, Orange, Magenta) and the colors listed below are attempted to match as closely as possible to these

## List of colors for each faction

Note: X, Y represents two different colors coexisting whereas X/Y represents a blend of two colors

### The Arborec

* **Primary**: **Green (90%),** **Blue (10%)**
* **Secondary**: **Green**
* **Tertiary**: **Black**, **Yellow**, **Green**

### The Argent Flight

* **Primary**: **Orange**
* **Secondary**: **Orange**
* **Tertiary**: **Green/Blue**

### The Barony of Letnev

* **Primary**: **Red (80%)**, **Black (20%)**
* **Secondary**: **Black**
* **Tertiary**: **Red, Blue**

### The Clan of Saar

* **Primary**: **Green (50%),** **Yellow (25%)****,** **Orange (25%)**
* **Secondary**: **Orange**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow**

### The Council Keleres

* **Primary**: **Yellow/Orange (40%)**, **Purple** **(40%)**, **Blue (20%)**
* **Secondary**: **Purple****, Blue**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow/Orange**

### The Embers of Muaat

* **Primary**: **Red (50%) , Orange (50%)**
* **Secondary**: **Red**
* **Tertiary**: **Orange,** **Red**

### The Emirates of Hacan

* **Primary**: **Orange (70%),** **Yellow (30%)**
* **Secondary**: **Yellow**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow**

### The Empyrean

* **Primary**: **Purple**
* **Secondary**: **Purple**
* **Tertiary**: **Red, Magenta**

### The Federation of Sol

* **Primary**: **Yellow (60%)**, **Blue (40%)**
* **Secondary**: **Blue**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow,** **Blue**

### The Ghosts of Creuss

* **Primary**: **Blue**
* **Secondary:** **Blue**
* **Tertiary**: **Black, Blue,** **Purple**

### The L1Z1X Mindnet

* **Primary**: **Black (70%), Red (30%)**
* **Secondary**: **Blue**
* **Tertiary**: **Red**

### The Mahact Gene Sorcerers

* **Primary**: **Yellow**
* **Secondary**: **Yellow**
* **Tertiary**: **Purple**

### The Mentak Coalition

* **Primary**: **Orange (50%),** **Black (50%)**
* **Secondary**: **Orange/Yellow**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow****/Orange**

### The Naalu Collective

* **Primary**: **Green**
* **Secondary**: **Orange/Yellow**
* **Tertiary**: **Green/Yellow**

### The Naaz-Rokha Alliance

* **Primary**: **Green**
* **Secondary**: **Green**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow**

### The Nekro Virus

* **Primary**: **Red**
* **Secondary**: **Red**
* **Tertiary**: **Red, Black**

### The Nomad

* **Primary**: **Blue (50%), Purple (50%)**
* **Secondary**: **Blue**
* **Tertiary**: **Purple**, **Blue**

### Sardakk N’orr

* **Primary**: **Black (70%),** **Red (30%)**
* **Secondary**: **Black, Red**
* **Tertiary**: **Red**

### The Titans of Ul

* **Primary**: **Magenta**
* **Secondary**: **Magenta**
* **Tertiary**: **Magenta**

### The Universities of Jol-Nar

* **Primary**: **Blue**
* **Secondary**: **Blue****, Purple**
* **Tertiary**: **Blue**

### The Vuil’Raith Cabal

* **Primary**: **Red (60%)**, **Black (40%)**
* **Secondary**: **Red**
* **Tertiary**: **Red**, **Magenta**

### The Winnu

* **Primary**: **Orange (60%), Yellow (40%)**
* **Secondary**: **Purple**
* **Tertiary**: **Yellow**/**Orange**

### The Xxcha Kingdom

* **Primary**: **Green/Blue**
* **Secondary**: **Blue/Green**
* **Tertiary**: **Green**

### The Yin Brotherhood

* **Primary**: **Purple (90%)**, **Yellow (10%)**
* **Secondary**: **Black**
* **Tertiary**: **Purple, Yellow**

### The Yssaril Tribes

* **Primary**: **Green/Yellow** (65%), **Red (25%)**, **Black** **(10%)**
* **Secondary**: **Yellow,** **Green**
* **Tertiary**: **Green**

## Method of determining play piece color for each faction

Suppose the Primary color is given a score of 1, the Secondary color is given a score of 0.6 and the Tertiary color is given a score of 0.3.

The score for each faction for each color is calculated by the proportion of the primary color, secondary color and tertiary color respectively, with each value added together to achieve a total. For example: The Universities of Jol-Nar are given 1 (Full Primary) + 0.3 (1/2 secondary) + 0.3 (Full Tertiary) = 1.6 for BLUE.

### Green

* **The Naaz-Rokha Alliance**: 1.6
* **The Arborec:** 1.6
* **The Naalu Collective:** 1.15
* **The Xxcha Kingdom:** 1.1
* **The Yssaril Tribes:** 0.93
* **The Clan of Saar:** 0.5
* **The Argent Flight:** 0.15

### Blue

* **The Ghosts of Creuss:** 1.7
* **The Universities of Jol-Nar:** 1.6
* **The Nomad**: 1.25
* **The Federation of Sol:** 1.15
* **The Xxcha Kingdom**: 0.8
* **The L1Z1X Mindnet:** 0.6
* **The Council Keleres:** 0.5
* **The Barony of Letnev:** 0.15
* **The Argent Flight:** 0.15
* **The Arborec:** 0.1

### Yellow

* **The Mahact Gene Sorcerers**: 1.6
* **The Emirates of Hacan**: 1.2
* **The Federation of Sol**: 0.75
* **The Yssaril Tribes**: 0.63
* **The Winnu**: 0.55
* **The Mentak Coalition**: 0.45
* **The Naalu Collective**: 0.45
* **The Clan of Saar:** 0.4
* **The Council Keleres:** 0.35
* **The Naaz-Rokha Alliance**: 0.3
* **The Yin Brotherhood**: 0.25
* **The Arborec**: 0.1

### Red

* **The Nekro Virus:** 1.75
* **The Vuil’Raith Cabal**: 1.35
* **The Embers of Muaat**: 1.25
* **The Barony of Letnev**: 0.95
* **Sardakk N’orr**: 0.9
* **The L1Z1X Mindnet**: 0.6
* **The Yssaril Tribes**: 0.25
* **The Empyrean:** 0.15

### Purple

* **The Empyrean:** 1.6
* **The Yin Brotherhood:** 1.05
* **The Council Keleres:** 0.7
* **The Nomad**: 0.65
* **The Winnu:** 0.6
* **The Universities of Jol-Nar**: 0.3
* **The Mahact Gene Sorcerers:** 0.3
* **The Ghosts of Creuss:** 0.1

### Black

* **Sardakk N’orr**: 1.0
* **The Barony of Letnev**: 0.8
* **The L1Z1X Mindnet**: 0.7
* **The Yin Brotherhood**: 0.6
* **The Mentak Coalition**: 0.5
* **The Vuil'Raith Cabal:** 0.4
* **The Nekro Virus**: 0.15
* **The Arborec**: 0.1
* **The Yssaril Tribes**: 0.1
* **The Ghosts of Creuss:** 0.1

### Orange

* **The Argent Flight:** 1.6
* **The Mentak Coalition**: 0.95
* **The Clan of Saar**: 0.85
* **The Winnu**: 0.75
* **The Emirates of Hacan:** 0.7
* **The Embers of Muaat**: 0.65
* **The Council Keleres:** 0.35
* **The Naalu Collective:** 0.3

### Magenta

* **The Titans of Ul**: 1.9
* **The Empyrean**: 0.15
* **The Vuil'Raith Cabal:** 0.15

## Interpretation & Practical Application

These results may be used in the following manner: Suppose a Ghosts of Creuss and Federation of Sol player are in the same game and both are after the Blue play pieces for their units. In this scenario, the Creuss player would take precedence since their score for blue of 1.7 trumps the Sol's 1.15. The other player would thus be forced to resort to their next best color, which in the case of the Sol's player would be the Yellow play pieces.

Despite this, a faction with less colors to chose from would generally take preference for a color compared to one with more options. Thus, in allocating a faction a color using the chart above, it is preferable to start with factions with the least color options. For example, consider the following 6 player game between The Arborec, The Naalu Collective, The Naaz-Rokha Alliance, The Xxcha Kingdom, The Yssaril Tribes and The Clan of Saar. In this scenario, the optimal allocation is: Black, Yellow, Green, Blue, Red and Orange respectively.