Factions

### The Crew of the Radiance

The crew of the Radiance are a small majority of the actual population aboard. The manage the running of the ship and it's supplies and maintenance. Led by Captain Andrews who answers to no one.

### The Society of Intergalactic Chroniclers

Once the Society of Galactic Chroniclers they took it upon themselves when given the opportunity to change to Intergalactic. They funded the ark ship *Manifest Destiny* which was making it's way to the Pereplut system to terraform Patantanlis.

### Demeter Corp

Primarily a technology supplier, manufacturing synthetics, spaceships and computers for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients. The company has extensive assets in interplanetary shipping and transport, and is one of the first corporations to fund an ark ship into the Spinward Marches. *Persephone* was one of the largest and most advanced ark ships deployed during the ark projects, it's target was the planet Anhur in the Peklenc system. Demeter Crop's company slogan is "*Building a better humanity.*"

### The Legitimate Businessmen's Group

Commonly referred to LBG the Legitimate Businessmen's Group is a group of the some of the wealthiest men in the Sol system. Outwardly an organisation of politically unaligned businessmen to pool resources into various investments the group is actually one of the most organised criminal organisations in humanity's long history. During the ark projects they funded the ark ship *Nero Stallone* and seeded it's high ranking crew with members of their organisation, set to the colonise Vonga in the Veles system.

### Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. Their belief that the destruction of the present world system at Armageddon was imminent, and that the establishment of God's kingdom over the earth was the only solution for all problems faced by humanity prompted the construction of the *Gospel Truth* ark ship*.* Millions of adherents joined the ultimate pilgrimage to the stars to find peace on Morle Loni in the Jarilo system.

### Galactic Confederacy

*Man is an immortal spiritual being.*

*His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime.*

*His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realised.*

Scientology is a religion that offers a precise path leading to a complete and certain understanding of one’s true spiritual nature and one’s relationship to self, family, groups, Mankind, all life forms, the material universe, the spiritual universe and the Supreme Being.

In his lifetime our physical manifestation of the Supreme Being, Tom Cruise, told us of a time when we would have the opportunity to reach the stars and find understanding and ascendance, this time was during the ark projects and we sent the *Xenu's Promise* into the Spinward Marches, to land on Mikula in the Mokosh system.

### Health Corp

The galactic leader in pharmaceuticals and hydroponics. Their Ark ship *Wellness Center* was designed to advance the creation of life on Ykar Oshat in the Belobog system.

### Plutonions

"More than just a rock." Descendants of the original colonists of the dwarf planet Pluto. After the planet was strip mined to emptiness and abandoned by the mining corporations the colonists retrofitted the planet into an ad-hoc ark ship and left the Sol system. Despite being an actual planet, it was still one of the smallest ark ships, it's destination unknown.

### Hephaestus Industrial

The largest and most long standing mining corporation from the Sol system, they were the sole proprietors of the asteroid belt and their extensive wealth allowed them to fund the ark ship *Colossus* into the Spinward Marches to claim the most profitable opportunities. The Colossus was destined for the the planet Alkonost in the Zaria system.

### Lewis, Louis and Luis

Founded by the hero of the Jovian rebellions, Lewis Barnes, along with former Earth president and magistrate, Louis Wilson, and the visionary correctional warden, Luis Romero. In the Sol System the organisation operates as independent Military contractors, the most influential law firm and runs unequaled correctional facilitates. During the ark ship project the sent the *Justice* out to provide law and order to the Spinward Marches from Quijy in the Perun system.