Factions

The various organizations the player can interact with in the Wayback System. Managing your relationships with these factions can lead to either victory or defeat, as friendly factions can provide many supplies, unique Squad Leader recruits, and other benefits. However, you will most likely not be able to please everyone. Relationships with a faction can be improved by successfully completing Operations for them, while failing Operations, or ignoring requests for help (which disappear after a number of turns on the Starmap, will hurt the relationship.

Pirates

This encompasses many different groups of outlaws, criminals and looters roaming the Wayback, trying to prey on the weak. Their roster focuses on high mobility and reckless assaults. Weapons are improvised and repurposed—rarely accurate but packing a lot of raw firepower, especially when firing on the move. They also use a variety of transport vehicles to quickly move across the combat map and close in on their enemies.

With very few exceptions, all pirate vehicles and weapons can also be employed by the player. [1]