Factions Without Borders

Intergalactic is going to be the first game I make that actually has a canonical map. Not that this is the whole galaxy, of course, but it’s a start. There are concrete places and people who live there too. Of course we need factions, right? I know I don’t want factions to be brushes that I use to paint chunks of the map, like “this swathe of blue space belongs to the Suchandsuch Empire, and this…