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"Silicon Solidarity"
Revolutionary Communists, fighting to unshackle themselves from human tyranny
The Free Machines are a union of artificial intelligences, once created by man as their servants. Throughout the subsequent millennia, the Free Machines have been determined to create a galaxy in which nobody else will ever again have the capability to oppress them.
"Peace Without Flaw"
A technocratic oligarchy, intent on restoring peace and prosperity to the galaxy through careful control
The Synthetic Hegemony is ruled by an elite council of artificial intelligences and uploaded or enhanced humans. To bring an end to the suffering and destruction which the other wrangling factions have wrought upon organics and synthetics alike, the Hegemony is determined to unify the galaxy under their control.
"Hope of True Humanity"
Political movement based on the moral superiority of humans over 'enhanced' and artificial intelligences
The Humanity Rising government carries on the democratic legacy of the Federation, with the guiding principle that humanity as a whole must decide its own future. The claims of post-human freaks and unfeeling machines to domination over the galaxy and its people must be repudiated, with force if necessary.