Let's start off with an admission: "race" and "faction" are not interchangeable, but in SARP, they're intertwined. No one has tried to make a faction without creating a new species, or at least a racial offshoot unassociated with any other faction's immediate history
(Arieg's old deleted faction).
So in that sense, this is a first.
But if we follow the
faction creation guide, it's clear that this still doesn't rise to the level of a
faction, whether or not you consider the smaller, malnourished humans there a racial offshoot or not.
I think this submission meets the initial questions the guide asks. It appeals to players uninterested in the more established military-themed RP and has some interesting elements.
However, each time I read and reread the submission and its associated CCG, I get the feeling this is more of a plot upgrade and advertisement than it is an actual faction, let alone a major one. And it's an unfinished one at that.
The plot for it is proposed, not approved. Its main government leader also is unapproved. The faction article itself is very thin β even if we only compare it to a
company's wiki.
There's no mention of its own technology, culture or real history beyond the vagueness of the original planet submission. That vagueness was fine for what it was for, but now it's being used to build an entire faction?
That doesn't pass the "lacking detail" on the Submission Review. There needs to be more if we're considering making this an actual real faction.
I don't know if it counts for a government/company either. Again, it builds off what the planet has already, which was already overthrown in the plot. It practically was a setting piece β a good one, but not enough to justify a full faction. There's no flag, sure, but what about a government document? Agencies? A submitted military?
The
Elysians have a much larger faction article, and while they have history on their side, not all of that was RP'd. It simply was written out and detailed. We don't have that here with this submission.
By the Submission Review, this does not pass muster. However, I think it can β if we change it from a faction to an organization. I'd still like to see more than "we're making it up as we go!", but at least as an organization we could get the ball rolling.
This submission is pending.