Gaians and Corsairs

[farmerman]

Ok, I was thinking of this a bit, and I made a complete list of how I thought Gaian diplomacy should go, if it were completely up to me, which it isn't. There is also one major caveat though: official factions may not be exactly how the "overall" version of the npc factions are. For instance with the Gaians here: Personally I think they'd be neutral with the Hogosha due to some overlaps and the potential that exists. The NLH, however, has previously had agreements with the Black Dragons and such.

Anyway, here are my thoughts with a slight explanation for most:

Allied:
Green Front activists

Friendly:
Junkers (supply Islay, clean up junk)
Farmers Alliance (anti-synth foods, large overlap of interests)

Neutral (don't care, usually for distance reasons)
Unioners (far away)
Dragons (far away, interests don't touch each other)
Liberty Rogues (foreign criminals)
Xenos (exploding people elsewhere)
LPI, LSF, LN, RM, RSP (in charge of places we generally don't go)

Neutral (like the idea but little, if any, contact)
LWB (Planet Stuttgart's environment was seriously hurt)
Red Hessians (Blast the corporate miners)
Bundschuh (similar backgrounds, little contact, differing goals)
Order (nomads are bad, but they're not around us very much)

Neutral (literally neutral)
ALG (cleaning up is good)
Lane Hackers (very little overlap in any matters)
Hogosha (potential business allies)
Zoners (they keep to themselves and don't mess things up much)
Ageira (useful technology, don't mind if they don't disturb us directly)
Cryer (scientists, often at CRI, thus easy to relate to, so long as they aren't horribly disturbing Gaia)
GC (generally just cause, but alliances and cardamine usage are bad, plus not a huge area overlap - mostly an ignore sort of group)

Unfriendly
IMG (more responsible than corporate miners, still to be watched though)
Gateway (deals with IMG, not BMM, or the BAF like Bowex does - secondary target to the others)
Mollys (some mutual overlap, violence only when they're directly impeding Gaian goals)
Corsairs (some overlap, interest in artifacts, but they're jerks who blow stuff up - friendliness considered when they clean up their act)
Universal, Republican (shippers not directly working with BAF, not much concern, still an irritant)
DSE (useful like Ageira, but more prone to show up and potentially cause issue)
IC (financing too many things we'd dislike)
Kishiro (terraforming in Okinawa)
GMG (Okinawa)
Samura (distributing alien organisms for dubious reasons)
KNF, KSP (some useful aspects, but still allowing destructive actions, ie Planet Junyo, Kishiro/Samura's activities)

Hostile
Bowex (connections with BMM and BAF)
Daumann (BMM-esque miners, but less contact)
Kruger (BMM-esque miners, but less contact)
BHG (they like to get paid to shoot us)
Outcasts (all sorts of problems)
Synth Foods (their approach to food production is bad for planets)

"Explosion time" type of hostile
Planetform
OS&C
BAF
BPA
BMM
Phantoms
Nomads

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Faction info links: Samura Heavy Industries : LWB : Watchers