Factions of the city of New Dimsk

The city's politics started to factionalize almost immediately after New Dimsk gained its independence.

## 2086 - 2089

* Captaincy: the government of the city, ruled by a captain, nominally elected every four years.
* Retributionists: people who want to take arms against the Briserian Federation and "avenge themselves".
* Various irrelevant small factions, left-winged and right-winged

## 2089 - 2091

* Council of the City: a council in charge of the city, after succesfully overthrowing the Captaincy after a bloodless coup d'état
* Captaincy Remnants: cloistered within the deep halls and a few hangars rests what is left of the Captaincy, overthrown by the Council of the City, aided by the Red Column.
* Retributionists: redirected their aim at the Reunionists.
* Red Column: the major far-left faction, obsessed with making New Dimsk, not only the only remaining city on Earth, but a communist utopia.
* Reunionists: people who seek to reunite with the Briserians
* Engineers and Scientific Union: a faction who unites the engineers who maintain and repair the city, and the promising scientists.

## 2091 - 10th of May, 2091

* Council of the City
* Red Column Remnants
* Reunionists Remnants
* Unaffiliated civilians
* Vengeful Spirits: a religious group obsessed with the cleansing of the Earth, inspired by the Red Column's principal idea of being the single, remaining city on Earth.
* Eternalists: another religious group with unknown intentions

## 10th of May, 2091

### Unaffiliated

* Civilians
	+ "Rubicon Vectors": a group of civilians trying to escape the falling city
	+ Convicted criminals and terrorists: game for everyone. After the beginning of the chaos in 2091, the makeshift prison, house to a staggering 40% of the entire city (and the entirety of the engineers), was victim to a jailbreak, but were met with a New Dimsk that fell into total anarchy. Their bodies litter the city, and are shot at by everyone.
* Armed civilians, military and paramilitary
	+ Neo-Dimskian Armed Forces
		- **1st Civil Defense Battalion: trying to maintain order - active armed conflict against the 2nd CDB**
		- **2nd Civil Defense Battalion: trying to maintain order - active armed conflict against the 1st CDB**
	+ Neo-Dimskian Civil Protection Agency: law enforcement.
	+ The Second Captaincy: armed civilians trying to reinstitute a captaincy and resolve the chaos
	+ Revolutionaries, anarchists

### Remaining factions

* **Council of the city**: reinstituted in 2091 after being briefly replaced by a military junta, the Council's priority is to try to keep the city afloat and keep it up for as long as possible - until at least travelling to a lake sufficiently deep to land the city, while maintaining its flying capabilities. They were initially helped by the 1st and 2nd CDB, but chaos ensured with the jailbreak and the two religious groups fighting, taking the entire city with them into a raging chaos.
* **Red Column**: trying to help the Rubicon Vectors and the Council of the City, they engaged in CQC against the Vengeful Sprits, the Eternalists and the Anarchists trying to take down the city.

#### Surviving religious factions

* Vengeful Spirits: changed their aim to be the "rationalist side" of "religion" - at odds with the Eternalists.
* Eternalist Death Cult: believing to be doomed to repeat the same mistakes, except if they kill each other and "to accept the end of mankind" as the ultimate fate - ignoring, either purposefully or accidentally, the rest of Earth, house to hundreds of millions.
* Other cultists: while the city broke down into flames after a simultaneous jailbreak, armed conflict between the armed forces, chaos and panic after the machinery's repeated failures, the loss of the two other supply installations, and the total destruction of the domed city, they either support the Vengeful Spirits or the Eternalists, and have switched to a total religious point of view, trying to cope with the ensuring devastation.