=BSG=/=CR= - 274 members total during the entirety of its existence to date. Currently there's maybe a dozen and a half active more or less.
No
Indies
Ever
Because it's awfully convenient at times to be in commplete charge of your own NPCs.
Quick descreyption:
Imagine an Alliance science expedition, meant o field-test a sleeper ship prtotype. The job went great, just noone suspected some Nomad suncrusher would immolate the Solar system while some ten thousand snorring scientists, soldiers, technicians and other specialists were away and building up a colony lightyears away from Earth
Now... some funky space disaster forced those peeps o move (again) after a few hundred years. They buzz out and reach Sirius, following a waypoint they found on a pwnt sleeper (The Australian one methinx).
They hit the ground(?) in Delta, then keep getting kicked around, doing errands for various parties, rarely getting properly rewarded. Sooo...
Nowdays they say F*** you, we're setting up shop in the Taus, convering it into a sovereign state and ain't intending to be noone's shoe-shiner.