Unofficial factions in relation to official factions

[Jihadjoe]

I am not going to relate this post to a specific event, however I just need to get a comunity concencus. I may talk about the event that inspired me to ask this question later.

We all know that system owning official factions have hegemony over non system owning official faction (if they're from the same group... eg outcasts)

However, how do those factions then relate to unofficial factions?

Most unofficial factions choose to answer to orders issued by official factions from the same group, however some don't. Now, that is fine if their roleplay is somewhat out of the ordinary in some way (breakaway group etc) but is it ok just as a matter of course?

Also, is it ok for an unofficial faction to answer to one official faction and not another?

Please, if you know about this particular occurence could you avoid talking directly about it. All I want here is some kind of clarification on the subject not an epic flamefest. Cheers guys.

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