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This is a list of all the '''factions''' in past and present rounds of [[PlanetWars]].
 
This is a list of all the '''factions''' in past and present rounds of [[PlanetWars]].
  
=Original factions=
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==Original factions==
 
'''<span style="color:#880088;">The Empire of Old Earth</span>'''
 
'''<span style="color:#880088;">The Empire of Old Earth</span>'''
  
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The Unaligned Worlds are more of a category than a faction, composed of all those bands, nations and planets who refuse to recognize anyone elses authority, lying somewhere in the spectrum between absolute liberty and absolute anarchy.
 
The Unaligned Worlds are more of a category than a faction, composed of all those bands, nations and planets who refuse to recognize anyone elses authority, lying somewhere in the spectrum between absolute liberty and absolute anarchy.
  
=Planetwars 8-10=
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==Planetwars 8-10==
 
During the Eight Planetwars the Ascended, lead by Valhalla, utterly crushed their opponents and conquered the galaxy by brute force, with only the Free Machines and unaligned holding on to any resistance. The True Born and Empire were all but destroyed, and the campaigns of forced mind upload and cybernetic alteration practically drove unaltered humanity into extinction.
 
During the Eight Planetwars the Ascended, lead by Valhalla, utterly crushed their opponents and conquered the galaxy by brute force, with only the Free Machines and unaligned holding on to any resistance. The True Born and Empire were all but destroyed, and the campaigns of forced mind upload and cybernetic alteration practically drove unaltered humanity into extinction.
  
 
But the strength of the Ascended fell as their leaders, the Valhalla, waned in power, and the factions rose again in the Ninth Planetwars. It seemed that the Free Machines may finally throw off their yoke, and end humanity permanently, but a new empire and the last human worlds rose again at the edges of the galaxy, and formed an alliance to fight the machines. In those final days, the machines even made common cause with the ascended, but the empire managed to capture the ancient artifacts, great beacons made to control the robotic armies that waged the Planetwars. This new pro-human Empire would go on to establish its dominion over the whole galaxy.
 
But the strength of the Ascended fell as their leaders, the Valhalla, waned in power, and the factions rose again in the Ninth Planetwars. It seemed that the Free Machines may finally throw off their yoke, and end humanity permanently, but a new empire and the last human worlds rose again at the edges of the galaxy, and formed an alliance to fight the machines. In those final days, the machines even made common cause with the ascended, but the empire managed to capture the ancient artifacts, great beacons made to control the robotic armies that waged the Planetwars. This new pro-human Empire would go on to establish its dominion over the whole galaxy.
  
=Planetwars 11=
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==Planetwars 11==
 
'''<span style="color:#6010FF;">Empire Reborn</span>'''
 
'''<span style="color:#6010FF;">Empire Reborn</span>'''
  
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''"By the content of our consciousness"''
 
''"By the content of our consciousness"''
  
Remnants of the era of cybernetic augmentation lead by the Ascended during the eighth Planetwars, vast swathes of enhanced or computerized humans have been treated as second class citizens under the empire, treated like machines, with barely more rights. Controlled using the very enhancements that made them powerful, the Cybernetic Front fights for the right to be seen as human... or as better than human.
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Remnants of the era of cybernetic augmentation lead by the Ascended during the eighth Planetwars, vast swathes of enhanced or computerized humans have been treated as second class citizens under the empire, treated like machines, with barely more rights. Controlled using the very enhancements that made them powerful, the Cybernetic Front fights for the right to be seen as human... or as better than human.  
  
=Planetwars 12=
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==Planetwars 12==
 
'''<span style="color:#5388EB;">Synthetic Pact</span>'''
 
'''<span style="color:#5388EB;">Synthetic Pact</span>'''
  
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The genetically enhanced noble houses of the Dynasty regained their dominant position during the Eleventh Planetwars, bringing under their control many of the old independent human colonies. Now they continue to assert the dominance of man over machine, furthering their research programs in an effort to place humans on an equal - nay, superior - footing with their synthetic creations.
 
The genetically enhanced noble houses of the Dynasty regained their dominant position during the Eleventh Planetwars, bringing under their control many of the old independent human colonies. Now they continue to assert the dominance of man over machine, furthering their research programs in an effort to place humans on an equal - nay, superior - footing with their synthetic creations.
  
=Planetwars 13=
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==Planetwars 13==
 
<span style="color:#55BB55;">'''Humanity Rising'''</span>
 
<span style="color:#55BB55;">'''Humanity Rising'''</span>
  
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With the ancient lineages of the Dynasty shattered, Humanity Rising is the single revolutionary banner around which they have rallied, to preserve their biological origins, their free will, and their very lives.  
 
With the ancient lineages of the Dynasty shattered, Humanity Rising is the single revolutionary banner around which they have rallied, to preserve their biological origins, their free will, and their very lives.  
  
<span style="color:#5388EB;">'''Synthetic Hegemony'''</span>
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<span style="color:#FFAA20;">'''Synthetic Hegemony'''</span>
  
 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Infrastructure/master/Zero-K.info/img/factions/Hegemony.png
 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Infrastructure/master/Zero-K.info/img/factions/Hegemony.png
  
The Synthetic Hegemony is formed by the ruling elite of free AIs and uploaded or enhanced humans. Having established their hold on the galaxy, they now seek to wipe out purely biological humanity entirely.
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The Synthetic Hegemony is formed by the ruling elite of free AIs and uploaded or enhanced humans. Having established their hold on the galaxy, they now seek to wipe out purely biological humanity entirely.  
 
 
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The outcome of the thirteenth Planetwars was a swift and total victory for Humanity Rising. http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/314?postID=172526#172526
 
 
 
=Planetwars 14=
 
 
 
Free Machines vs Empire, won by Empire. http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/314?postID=172526#172526
 
 
 
=Planetwars 15-16=
 
 
 
The preceding two Planetwars established the dominance of humanity over machine for some time; the various human factions wasted no time finding something new to squabble about...
 
 
 
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<span style="color:#FFBF00;">'''Dynasty of Man'''</span>
 
 
 
http://zero-k.info/img/factions/Dynasty.png
 
 
 
''"Elan vital"''
 
 
 
''Controlled by noble houses of genetically enhanced superhumans, tracing history back to old Earth.''
 
 
 
As the New Empire dropped its mighty boot on the last pockets of machine resistance in the Fourteenth Planetwars, so did its mask drop, revealing behind it the dynasty of ages past. Operatives in key positions diverted resources from the war effort to rebuild the laboratories, resuming in full the development of a better human race.
 
 
 
Confident in their newfound power, the nobles emerged from hiding determined to continue the path to human superiority, having no mercy for those standing in their way, machine or otherwise.
 
 
 
<span style="color:#6010FF;">'''Empire'''</span>
 
 
 
http://zero-k.info/img/factions/Empire.png
 
 
 
''"Order, loyalty, dignity"''
 
 
 
''Absolute monarchy, with the immortal emperor at the head.''
 
 
 
The Empire is the latest iteration of a millennia-old polity, seeking to create a galaxy of peace and stability built on the Emperor's iron hand.
 
 
 
Being dominant force in the galaxy, empire grew decadent and complacent and lost many of its holdings.
 
 
 
However the new emperor musters his forces together with a common goal: end the anarchy, restore the throne of the Emperor, and revive the glory days of yore. They march under the glorious banner of the double-headed eagle, to return humanity to its rightful mastery of the stars.
 
 
 
<span style="color:#55BB55;">'''Federation'''</span>
 
 
 
http://zero-k.info/img/factions/Federation.png
 
 
 
''"Freedom and equality"''
 
 
 
''Liberal pluralism. Chaotic, disorganized, loose and free.''
 
 
 
Federation is a weak alliance of liberal cultures, planets and small interstellar empires. It's origins can be traced to the times of Humanity Rising's fight for freedom against machines.
 
Now, this extremely tolerant and generally peaceful entity, gives rights and freedom back to lesser aliens and even conscious machines its ancestors once defeated.
 
 
 
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The fifteenth Planetwars was won by the Empire; the sixteenth was won by the Federation.
 
 
 
http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/23988
 
http://zero-k.info/Forum/Post/187756#187756
 
  
 
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