Factions

Navigating the Byzantine power structures of Erlin's Eye is a trick into itself, in no small part due to the sheer number of **Factions**.

# Non-Corporations

## Havenage

An administrative association for the Eye. They are descended from Erlin's Union, and are based primarily in the areas around the shipyards and the Rotunda.

**Faction members:**

* Feng (a systems engineer)
* Hardin (senior member)
* Helene (council member)

## Hypha

A volunteer-run community, specializing in food production. They are located in the Greenway, and are largely responsible for its reclamation and repair after the Founder's Gap incident left it nearly uninhabitable. Anyone who works is entitled to having their basic needs met, and the commune collectively ensures that its members are looked after.

**Faction members:**

* Riko (botanist, founding member)

## Yatagan

A gang who provide protection and order to the Lowend and, to some extent, the Bright Market. They sprung up in the aftermath of the collapse and the Founder's Gap incident, protecting and facilitating a community for those on The Eye that Erlin's Union could not.

**Faction members:**

* Rabiah (lieutenant)
* Sabine (doctor, conditional)
* Yannick (council member)

## Celis Foundation

A charitable organisation from the Core Systems, who claim to want to set up a socialist society on a distant world, outside of the jurisdiction and reach of the Core and its predatory corporations. They are the organisation behind the construction of the Sidereal Horizon transport ship.

**Faction members:**

* Lem and Mina (conditional)
* Sleeper (conditional)

## Erlin's Union (Historical)

The precursor to Havenage, and the faction responsible for restoring Erlin's Eye to a habitable state when it was severely damaged in the Founder's Gap incident. This faction filled the power vacuum left by Solheim on the station after that faction's collapse.

# Corporations

## Essen-Arp

A corporation from the Core Systems. **Essen-Arp** are a major producer of Sleepers - emulating human minds and using those emulations to pilot synthetic humanoid bodies. These Sleepers are used as a labor force with very few legal rights, since they are not considered to be people under Core System law.

**Faction members:**

* Sleeper (formerly)
* Ethan (bounty hunter)
* Maywick (bounty hunter)
* Sabine (medical researcher, formerly)
* Yannick

## XPR

A lesser corporation from the Core Systems that was partnered with Solheim before the collapse. They build outposts that offer refueling, logistics, and maintenance services to bigger companies with extraction contracts. The outposts suffered greatly after the collapse, losing their main clientele and barely surviving on very little income. In the Helion System, **XPR** have a resource extraction claim on Cinder and its moons for as long as they can maintain a presence there.

**Faction members:**

* Eshe (formerly)
* Peake (formerly)

## Solheim

A corporation from the Core Systems, which formerly owned the entire Helion System. In *Citizen Sleeper*, this faction has collapsed, and is no longer operating in this system.

**Faction members:**

* Hardin (formerly)

## Conway Extractions

A corporation from the Core Systems. They specialise in resource extraction, and enforcement of ownership claims.

**Faction members:**

* Emphis (formerly)

## SenetStat

A corporation from the Core Systems. Primarily an analytical group, they utilize data to predict trends and market opportunities throughout the known systems. When Solheim collapsed, **SenetStat** purchased the Helion System, and claimed legal ownership of all within its boundaries.

**Faction members:**

* Castor (analyst and data broker)
* Sleeper (conditional)