posted 09-03-99 08:16 PM ET        

Note: I've created new social engineering choices for the mod, created new techs, and changed a whole lot of other things. These factions are probably balnced with each other, but not with the original factions.

Hammond Utopia
Agenda: Total freedom, happiness.

+2 TALENT: {Brilliant Thinkers}
-1 POLICE: {Freedom loving}
+1 RESEARCH: {Alicia and her Clique are brilliant intellectuals}
-2 MORALE: {Peaceful Empire, Total freedom can lead to social immorality and indulgence}
{+3 Research points per base}
{+25% PSI combat due to Alicia's telepathic abilities}
{IMMUNITY from PLANET penalties}
{May not use Thought Control methods.}
{PENALTY for Police State politics}

Johnson Federation (my faction)
Agenda: Super Techno controlled society, and Microsoft crushing software monopoly.

+1 ECONOMY: {Software monopoly}
+1 RESEARCH: {Emphasis on development}
+2 EFFICIENCY: {Computerized society is efficient}
-1 SUPPORT: {Computer system is expensive to maintain}
-2 PROBE: {Vast computer network vulnerable to hackers}
COMMERCE: {bonus increases value of treaties, pacts, loans}
+1 Drone for every five citizens {People refuse to have rights abused by the Technocracy}

Cool Clique
Agenda: Social Popularity, Power over others

+2 MORALE: {Powerful Army, Cool Clique thinks they are better than everyone else}
+1 TALENT: {It's a cool clique, it's members are awesome}
-1 RESEARCH: {More intrested in power and popularity than knowledge}
+1 GROWTH: {Expansionistic}
-2 EFFIC: {Extreme Decadence}
{Due to their popularity, the Cool Clique gets DOUBLE votes for planetary governor and Supreme Leader.}
{Cannont use knowledge value in social engineering.}

Gangemi Order
Agenda: Imposing order on Planet
+1 PROBE {Excellent security}
+1 SUPPORT {Large Security Forces
+1 POLICE {Order}
-1 INDUSTRY {maintaining immense security forces is expensive}
-1 EFFIC {Kelley's Bureaucracy}
{Receives DOUBLE votes in elections for Planetary Governor and Supreme Leader}

SAC
Agenda: Planetary Government
-2 EFFICIENCY: {Huge Bureaucracy}
COMMERCE: {bonus increases value of treaties, pacts, loans}
IMPUNITY from the negative effects of popularity social choice
PENALTY for Thought Control Social Choice
{Receives TRIPLE votes in elections for Planetary Governor and Supreme Leader}
{May not use Police State Politics.}

Fluent Nexus
Agenda: Security/Espionage
+2 POLICE: {Security}
+2 PROBE: {Priority on internal security}
-1 INDUSTRY: {Security system is expensive}
{Free Probe Team}
{May not use Democratic Politics.}

Jock Clique
+2 GROWTH: {Expansionistic}
-2 RESEARCH: {Views scientists as unimportant and as threats to absolute rule}
+3 POLICE: {Pat Miller is absolute ruler}
+1 SUPPORT: {Military Industrial Complex}
-1 PLANET: {Massive millitary factories pollute planet severely}
25% Psi deficiency
{May not use Knowledge Values.}

VanScoy Collective
Agenda: Transcendence at any cost.
+1 RESEARCH: {Commited to achieving transcendence}
-2 GROWTH: {Extermination of the impure}^-1 ECONOMY: {Meredith finds greed for wealth to be contemptable}
Tech advances only cost 80 percent
Impunity from the negative effects of Knowledge
{+50% Psi combat}
{May not use wealth value in social engineering.}

Tambra's Sisters
Agenda: Royalty, Absolute Monarchy
{+25% Bonus when attacking enemies, from extreme devotion to Tambra}
{Impervious to all forms of mid control, due to total worship of Tambra}
{Immune to negative POLICE values, due to the people's support to Tambra's millitary campaigns}
{Extra Drone for every five citizens, some people dislike Tambra's decadence}
+1 SUPPORT: {Citizens eager to fight for Tambra}
-2 RESEARCH: {Suspicious of secular science}
-1 PLANET: {Tambra believes Planet is hers to do with as she pleases}
{May not use Democratic Politics}

Hagen Incorporated
Agenda: Industrial Expansion

+1 ECONOMY: {Industrial conglomerate}
+1 INDUSTRY: {Vast Industrial Infrastructure}
-1 MORALE: {Undisciplined hired mercenaries for defense
-2 PLANET: {Immense Industrial Pollution}
COMMERCE: {bonus increases value of treaties, pacts, loans}
Begins with 100 extra energy credits.
{May not use Popularity social choice.}