Shameless advertising. Tsk tsk. Joking though. It is a good concept. I myself am in two intelligence factions already.
However, @Lanakov idea seems capable of a bigger and better head start due to the trading side of it.
Edit: And thanks for the concise answer.
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Oh no it was completely shameless, I've no issue admitting that.
And actually spying isn't all we do- when he was still around, Spazzy had regular mining operations of 10+ people going in Omicron Beta for Cryo-Organisms, and I'll regularly trawl the Taus for piracy targets for funzies. It's a faction still trying to get off the ground and we're willing to expand into further concepts if people are willing to help make it a reality- problem thusfar has been finding people to do just that. If we were already a fully fleshed-out and active package of a faction, I'd have tossed up an officialdom application already. But it's not, and we're not, and thus I haven't.
And no problem~ Like I said, that fiasco happened during my 2-year mandatory bitter-vet hiatus so, my knowledge on the subject is limited to what I've been told by people like @Geoffacake who were there. Tis secondhand information and whatnot.
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/sīˈamək/
A simple, angry man casually working his way through life on a personal quest to acquire copious amounts of street cred.