Shouldn't we wait until Prom has his fluff all sorted out before we start making our own fluff, that's probably going to contradict with what Prom has?

A region where all space-faring technology inexplicably fails.
Maybe a superior race could have their homeworld in the centre, and they use the rest to destroy the ships of any possible invaders.

whoops sorry. Last time i looked it wasn't there, must be a recent edit.

Anyways here's some Non canon fan fiction here (making it up as i go along):

The GSF. A proposed UN style collective of races throughout the Galaxy, Brung up early in Humanity's galactic expansion.
It didn't go well, some issues faced were communication and interpreters, hostile relations between races, general dislike of the Human race and Xenophobia.
The proposition for a united galaxy was eventually scrapped in favour of the smaller alliance with the various peaceful extraterrestrial races. What we now know as the Orion Spur Amalgam.

The last part should be correct.

A single Mu-Ilaak battleship lies in the Great Dread.

Same for the Dead Zone.

Rather than a living system (that you'd expect to expand) or an artificial one (which could eventually be overcome and/or exploited), the Great Dread could be an area that is simply dangerous to travel in; possibly some ancient superweapon leaving behind tears in space or radiation or nanobots or whatever.

Well, how about making up fluff for fan-made factions? This should be interesting.

Yes under one condition,
1) the faction should (more or less) have its position on the map
as well as
2) a reason why it came to the planet currently known as "You are here".


Good discussions this is why I posted this Topic and
all ideas given will eventually either mold to fit with Proms design of the cc world or fall out.
Random ideas shouldn't hurt.
Only excite


Sounds very practical, great design
I will sum up all the practical ideas... um once we have enough of them too sum up and add it to the OP.

The great dread should be an evolving swarm of planet eating nanobots born of experiments that float through space and, when working as a colony can take different forms and posses corpses while being nigh invincible(they can replace the brains and mussels from a dead cmf, for instance, same goes for a robot but with motors and replace thecpu.) they can form "brains" that are neural networks. if a nanobot system is killed, it is really only separated and can rebuild at a later time. only fire, powerful weapons (bombs), and electricity can really kill them. That would be one unique faction.

That could make a backstory for Zombies. But they already have some fluff i think.

(All Vanillia Factions described; will update later with mod Factions)

The United Space Coalition (USC), often simply referred to as the "Coalition", is an alliance between the many human colonies spread throughout the universe. The Coalition's main command center is located on planet Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. The Coalition has a massive cache of funds that is steadily growing by the day due to the reliability and relatively fair cost of their clone soldiers. While not the most powerful faction in terms of sheer destructive potential, the Coalition is easily the best organized and Coalition soldiers are a standard in many armies, and a supplement in others. High-ranking Coalition members include the disembodied brains of the founders and many of the colonial leaders who created the first human colonies. The Coalition also have a medium-sized quadrupedal tank known informally as the Coalition Dreadnaught; while it has not been officially deployed into combat, artist depictions render it as a large, armored mech somewhat akin to the Dummies' Dreadnaught, but more agile and not as ungainly in it's footing. It is armed with a Coalition Gatling Gun under the "chin" of the mech. (Special note: There are rumors of a secret portion of the Coalition known as the "Browncoats", elite soldiers said to be clones of Spetsnaz members, which would explain their seemingly Russian affiliation for clothing. They are said to be much stronger physically than standard Coalition soldiers, but are also marked by some as failures because secret tests report that their lack of exterior armor makes them weaker overall than the Coalition Heavy soldier.) Their most powerful unit is the Coalition Punisher (read on more in the Dummies' section), and they also have a mobile artillery mech dubbed the Cannon Dreadnaught, useful for long-distance anti-air and anti-armor operations, but with limited use against infantry due to the slow fire rate and small ammo loadout of 3 shells before obligatory reload. For transport, the Coalition commonly rents out the Techion Mk. 1 Dropship and Mk. 1/2 Rockets, but they also have their own "super-heavy" dropship, the Bethesda, a very powerful transport craft armed with two automated turrets.

The Techion, also informally called the "Whitebots" for their white color schemes, are a huge army of aliens that are physically weak in their true forms but extremely intelligent, and they excel at making robots ranging from mining drones to brain mechas. Techion Commanders are a terrifying sight on the battlefield, disembodied brains located on top of a heavily armored bi-pedal mecha, armed with dual chainguns on the mecha's hands and an anti-air missile launcher located on the right shoulder of the mecha. Standard Techion soldiers are bipedal robots, roughly human-sized, that have been reported to wield firearms ranging from long-barreled battle rifles to combat lasers. The Techion are well known for their dropships and rockets, some of the first ever used in interplanetary combat, and they offer their Mark 1 Dropship and Mark 1 & 2 Rockets through the Tradestar catalog, though it is rumored that they have more advanced transport vehicles which are solely used by their army.

The Ronin are a group of rag-tag militia spread throughout the universe. Some are organized into large groups, but many are simply small amounts of citizens or soldiers who rebel against their superiors and try to forge a life on their own. Named after the term used to describe ancient Japanese samurai who abandoned the honorable code they were required to follow, the Ronin are by name assumed to be bandits and thieves, but some have shown themselves to be more altruist-oriented rather than selfish, fighting overly oppressive governments and abusive soldiers for the sake of civilians too weak to do their own fighting. The Ronin's arsenal is outdated, but some of their weapons are quite effective against modern opposition; for instance, they've been seen wielding high-caliber pistols, such as the .50 caliber Desert Eagle, or the Colt Single Action Army revolver, commonly called the Peacemaker. The two arguably deadliest weapons in the Ronin's arsenal are custom made miniguns called "YAK4700"s, and the bazooka they commonly use for anti-armor and anti-air operations.

The Dummy Federation, obviously so dubbed due to their resemblance to crash test dummies, are a group of robots that seem to be fairly intelligent, as they've made energy weapons, transport craft, and mechs from what most people assume is scrap. For a long time, the Dummies' arsenal was limited to the standard Dummy soldier, a fairly resilient and cheap alternative to Coalition or Techion troops, outfitted with energy blasters or laser cannons, and the Dreadnaught, a quadrupedal mech armed with a high-caliber light machine gun. The standard Dummies are said to be some of the best soldiers around for their cheap cost, as they are very resilient and do not bleed, but the Dreadnaught has received criticism from many; while tough and useful for suppressive fire, it has several weakspots, such as its unarmored legs or fragile machine gun, and it is limited to aiming within an about 60 degree angle, so it cannot combat enemies that are in the air or on a high vantage point. As such, it is best suited for guarding narrow hallways, but the cost may convince many to simply put in the automated Dummy Turret, nothing more than an auto-targeting light machine gun guarded by two metal plates. Recently, a mad scientist known by the moniker of "LowestFormOfWit" created a bipedal brain mech called the Behemoth for the Dummies that proved to be extremely tough and was armed with several high-tech weapons including a super-sized shotgun and a rocket fist. The Coalition were quick to reverse-engineer the technology used by the Behemoth to make their own variant, the Coalition Punisher. While superior to the Behemoth in terms of weapons' variety and armor strength, many questioned the legality and morality behind such shadowy development, but the Punisher still sold well among the Coalition forces; it became a standard for many disembodied brain commanders.

That was LFoW, not Duh. You might want to fix that.

This leads to interesting implications about Darkstorm, a Japanese military tech company from Earth, and Unitec, which is essentially a corporate Coalition. While their military is superior, it is only a small part of their range, as they also sell baseball bats. Maybe their leisure range extends farther?

Also, if we're going for vanilla descriptions, you might want to cut out about half of what you said or add something about the Bethesda, the single most useful heavy vehicle in the Coalition's arsenal.

>That was LFoW, not Duh. You might want to fix that.

Hurf, my mistake. Don't know why I thought it was Duh ("Duh" for "Dummy"?)

@Bethesda Complaint: Myeh. There was also the Cannon Dreadnaught which was supposedly Coalition-oriented, now that I think about it.
@Darkstorm/UniTec: I see both of those as being somewhat akin to PMCs whereas the Coalition is something like the official Earth space force. Plus, UniTec works with aliens (Zealots), so they're obviously not too narrow in their views of alliances and whatnot, and I figure it would be wrong to limit them as a part of the Coalition.

Not really. Because by then the ideas they've read and liked will have been ingrained into their minds and become associated with the factions. Then when Prom releases his version of the fluff that totally contradicts with the ideals and values of the factions, people will fly into a rage.

Not to say you can't make fluff, I'd just recommend staying away from the Vanilla factions. Stick with making up backstories for mod factions until Prom has all his fluff sorted out. Then you can expand on his fluff.

But Prom could always use our fluff if he doesn't want to come up with his own fluff.