USTA：
The USTA, or United Sol Trade Alliance, is a coalition that formed during the Cataclysm. It was originally formed between the old Earth conglomerate states, the North Eurasian Socialist Republic (NESR), and the East Asian Megastate (EAM). The NESR was one of the largest superpowers in the world, having risen to power from the ashes of the USSR nearly a hundred years before it, ready to start a second Cold War with the EAM.
For such an alliance to arise between these factions was quite surprising, given their opposing roles in bringing about the Cataclysm, leading to rampant speculation and conspiracy theories.
The most fanciful of such theories being that the Cataclysm and the subsequent evacuation of Earth was entirely planned, as a way to force the human race out of their paradise prison, to force humanity to become stronger, more resilient, and now capable of resisting astronomical extinction.
Another more likely possibility includes the fact that the extremely nationalistic memebers of all these factions likely died out following the Cataclysm. Most of what remained perhaps saw the terrible folly of this disaster and vowed to never let it happen again. And thus, bitter enemies bent on annihilating each other were now close allies, ready to turn a new page in human history.
Regardless of how such an alliance could form, those nations were soon joined by many more nations eager to evacuate, and the burgeoning USTA soon become much more than its original founding nations, and soon the only identity that remained was the alliance.
The USTA was the first faction to evacuate straight to the outer solar system. While the Republic of Free People was dumping their people on Luna, Mars, and the asteroid belt, the USTA was taking years and years to dump their people on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, sometimes keeping refugees stuck inside their colony ships for years. Other factions soon followed their lead, rushing for the resource rich fields of ice and methane of Uranus and Neptune.
Over the course of hundreds of years, the USTA has held an aggressive colonization and resource eploitation policy, strip mining all the asteroids and moons it can, and then dumping colonists to the furthest reaches of the solar system, as far out as Eris and Haumea. Despite their utter worthless strategic nature, the Kuiper Belt belongs completely to the USTA, as no other faction has been foolish enough to exploit such bodies. In addition, their reach extends as far inward as several orbital stations around Mercury, and enjoys an omnipresence across the entire asteroid belt.
To this day, they remain the largest faction in the Solar System by GDP, and celestial claims.
USTA，或太阳系贸易联盟，是一个在大灾变中，形成联盟。它原本是旧地球集团国家之间形成，北欧亚社会主义共和国（在），与东亚大国（EAM）。周边是一个在世界上最大的超级大国，拥有了权力从USSR近一百年前它的灰烬，准备开始第二冷战和EAM。
因为这些派系之间的结盟是非常令人惊讶的，因为他们在促成大灾难中扮演了相反的角色，导致了猖獗的投机和阴谋论。
这些理论中最奇特的是，地球的大灾难和随后的撤离是完全计划的，作为一种迫使人类走出天堂监狱的方式，迫使人类变得更强、更有弹性，现在能够抵抗天文灭绝。
另一个可能性更大的包括，所有这些派别可能灭绝的灾难后的极端民族主义的成员。剩下的大部分可能都看到了这场灾难的可怕愚蠢，并发誓决不让它再次发生。因此，敌人一心想消灭对方现在是亲密的盟友，准备翻开新的一页，人类历史上。
不管如何，这样的联盟可以形成，这些国家很快就被许多国家争相撤离的加入，以及新兴的网球协会很快变得比原来的国，很快，剩下唯一的身份是联盟。
美国网球协会是撤离直太阳系外第一阵营。而自由的人民共和国倾销他们的人在Luna，Mars，和小行星带，美国网球协会是以多年抛弃他们的人在Jupiter和萨图恩的月亮，有时保持难民滞留在其殖民地的船只年。其他派系很快跟随他们的步伐，冲向资源丰富的冰场和天王星和海王星的甲烷。
在数百年的历程，美国网球协会举行了一场侵略殖民和资源开采政策，条带开采所有的小行星和卫星就可以了，然后把殖民者到遥远的太阳系，尽厄里斯和妊神星。尽管他们毫无价值的战略性质，柯伊伯带完全属于太阳系贸易联盟，因为没有其他派系有愚蠢到利用这样的机构。此外，他们的触角延伸到水星轨道站内向一些，并享受整个小行星带的无所不在。
直到今天，他们仍然是太阳能系统中最大的一个国家。
【我英语还可以，但没有时间去翻译。】

IR：
The appearance of the Iroquois Resurgence faction was a surprise to all of the human race. Roughly eighty years after the Cataclysm, after most of the factions had settled down across the solar system, the Iroquois Resurgence suddenly announced their existence, a recent offshoot of the USTA, declaring independence from their parent faction. At the point of secession, they had control of several moons of Neptune, and a few asteroids in the belt.
The USTA responded with threats of destruction immediately (as soon as light could carry their message, at least), but at the time, no one had invested in a space miltiary hardware. The IR-USTA war was the first all war set entirely in space, and it set the stage for all future space warfare. The USTA, using their combined experience of hundreds of years of naval, air, and ground battles, rapidly discovered that nearly everything they were used to was completely obsolete. Specifically, the logistics of maintaining a space war were several orders of magnitude more difficult to manage than ground wars. The first war was punctuated by warships getting their propellant tanks punctured, their ships stranded, out of delta-v, aluminum tombs in orbit across the solar system, and the very rare combat engagement.
In the end, the USTA gave up their war, and instead have devoted the following years to simple trade sanctions as retaliation. To this day, the Iroquois Resurgence remains a small but significant faction, owning various small moons and asteroids across the entire solar system.
易洛魁复兴派的出现是全人类一个惊喜。大灾变后大约八十年后，大部分的派系已经解决了整个太阳系，易洛魁人中兴突然宣布他们的存在，该协会最近的一个分支，从他们的父母派宣布独立。在分离的时候，他们控制了海王星的几个卫星，以及一些小行星带。
USTA回应威胁破坏立即（尽快光至少可以携带他们的消息），但在当时，没有人有投资空间发起的硬件。的ir-usta战争第一战完全的空间，并设置阶段为所有未来的太空战。美国网球协会，利用他们的海军、空军的几百年的经验相结合，和地面的战斗，很快发现几乎所有他们分别是完全过时的。具体而言，维持空间战的后勤比地面战争更难管理几个数量级。第一次战争被军舰获得推进剂坦克击穿，他们的船只搁浅，出的速度增量，铝墓轨道穿越太阳系，和非常罕见的交战。
最后，USTA放弃战争，而是致力于以下简单的贸易制裁来报复。这一天，易洛魁人的复苏仍然是一个小而重要的派系，拥有各种小卫星和小行星的整个太阳系。

LE：
The Liberty Exchange is a loose confederation of independent moons and asteroids dedicated towards maintaining a free and neutral trade alliance. Unlike the United Sol Trade Alliance (USTA), which is an entity formed out of political ties rather than economic ties, the Liberty Exchange are actually a trade alliance.
It is composed of hundreds of major and minor corporations. The Liberty Exchange have been around for a long time as a loose collective of scattered firms, but have only recently considered themselves an official coalition.
With an almost fanatical devotion to capitalism, and a profound indifference to military warfare, they have managed to stay neutral in every conflict since the Cataclysm. However, critics are quick to point out that they have had a crucial role in funding and supplying arms to any and all sides of every conflict indiscriminately. For the sake of capitalism, of course.
Others have also observed that they try to avoid helping out one side too heavily in a bid to prolong conflicts. Conflicts which end too rapidly are not as profitable to them. They also have a pointed dislike of nuclear weapons, and have always voiced opposition against treaties that allow them to be used on terrestial bodies, likely because they end conflicts too quickly.
Interestingly enough, they were the first faction to outright reject a centralized currency, opting to only recognize cryptocurrencies: only offshoots of old Earth's Bitcoins would be accepted as legal tender. Using their tremendous economic leverage, their early adoption of all of these cryptocurrencies forced out government-backed currencies from the solar markets.
In keeping with their strong dislike of centralization, the Liberty Exchange has set up a sort of checks-and-balances between corporations, where the majority of member corporations will gradually weaken any other member corporation which grows too powerful. In this way, no single corporation has been able to achieve a monopoly on any market in the solar system, despite the lack of any central government oversight. It's an unstable equilibrium, where power is carefully shared between a smattering of corporations, but it has been in place for decades without failure.
The Liberty Exchange tend to traffic in all possible commerce, though their primary focus is on construction of terrestial cities and space stations. Arguably, their eagerness to delve in all manner of commerce, or at least refuse to restrict any types of commerce, has led them to being the primary trafficker of slavery and prostitution in the solar system.
'Here for the cash, not the cargo' is their motto, reflecting their so called capitalistic neutrality.
Their presence is scattered across the entire solar system, occupying mostly small moons and asteroids, as well as jointly controlling many smaller 'neutral zones' on many of the larger moons and planets. They have no central headquarters, being a confederation of corporations, although their largest claim is the center of commerce of the Jovian system, Memphis Facula City, on Ganymede.
自由交易所是一个松散的独立卫星和小行星联盟，致力于维护一个自由中立的贸易联盟。不像美国的贸易联盟（协会）的溶胶，这是一个实体，形成了政治关系而非经济关系，自由交换实际上是一个贸易联盟。
它由数百个主要和次要的公司组成。自由交易所作为松散的公司松散的集体已经存在了很长一段时间，但最近才认为自己是一个正式的联盟。
他们对资本主义近乎狂热的献身精神，对军事战争极为漠不关心，自灾难以来，他们在每一场冲突中都保持中立。然而，批评者很快指出，他们在向每一次冲突的任何一方提供资金和提供武器方面发挥了关键作用。当然，为了资本主义。
另一些人也观察到，他们试图避免过分干涉对方，以延长冲突。结束得太快的冲突对他们来说不是有利可图的。他们还指出，对核武器，并一直表示反对条约，允许他们用在地面的尸体，可能是因为他们结束冲突的太快。
有趣的是，他们完全拒绝统一货币的第一阵营，选择只承认cryptocurrencies：只有老地球的比特币的分支将被作为法定货币。利用其巨大的经济杠杆，其早期采用所有这些cryptocurrencies逼出来的政府支持的货币从太阳能市场。
由于他们对中央集权的强烈厌恶，自由交易所在公司之间建立起了一种制衡关系，大多数成员公司将逐渐削弱那些实力过于强大的其他成员公司。这样，尽管没有中央政府的监督，但没有一家公司能够垄断太阳系的任何市场。这是一个不稳定的平衡，其中电源仔细一点企业之间共享，但它已经几十年没有失败的地方。
自由交换往往在所有可能的商业交通，虽然他们的主要精力集中在建设无线城市和空间站。可以说，他们渴望深入各种商务，或至少不限制任何类型的商业，导致他们在太阳能系统的奴役和卖淫的主要贸易商。
“这里的现金，而不是货物”是他们的座右铭，反映了他们所谓的资本主义中立。
它们的存在分散在整个太阳系中，主要占据小卫星和小行星，并共同控制许多较大的卫星和行星上的许多较小的“中性地带”。他们没有中央总部，作为一个联合企业，虽然他们最大的要求是对木星系统的商业中心孟菲斯市，光斑，木卫三。

NP：
Arguably the only faction to retain a single, national identity from Earth, Nippon Prime is the spacefaring evolution of the nation of Japan from Earth, and is the only faction to traces its formation to pre-Cataclysm history. Nippon Prime originally started as a right wing political party of pre-Cataclysm Japan, regularly calling for the militarization of the country, due to rising tensions with the UKPP (Unified Korean Peninsular Protectorate). The political party had substantial backing from the country's military industrial complex, it's robotics and cybernetics industries, and most of all, it's space industry.
When the Cataclysm happened, Nippon Prime was already well established in the solar system, with small research colonies dotting the solar system, from the moons of Uranus to the moons of Saturn, to several asteroids. And when key members Japanese leadership, including the president, evacuated Earth, their rocket trying to catch the Japanese skyhook disintegrated after launch in one of the only accidental failures of Nippon Prime's nearly spotless record of perfect launches.
The loss of key elements of the Japanese government vastly increased the political control Nippon Prime had. In the first democratic election after that disaster, Nippon Prime gained control of the presidency and a majority in the legislature. Over time, playing on fears of human extinction, promising strength and survival, Nippon Prime dissolved the democratic government and implemented a monarchy. They have maintained a strong presence across the solar system ever since.
Nippon Prime has major claims in the Uranus system and the Saturn system, and holds close ties to the USTA, being the primary trading partner to the USTA. They hold a few claims in the inner solar system, but that presence is rather minor compared to other factions there. As the years have passed since the first space war between the USTA and the IR, Nippon Prime has engaged in numerous successful military campaigns across the solar system, slowly subsuming smaller factions either through threat of destruction or through destruction itself.
They are led by the Eternal Empress Kinoshita Asami, who has apparently led Nippon Prime since it's days back on Earth, over 200 years ago. It is unclear whether Nippon Prime has developed a method of life extension that is vastly more effective than anything in existence on the market, or if Kinoshita has simply been cloned numerous times and a new Empress is unfrozen and grown to replace the old one every time the last one gets old or dies, or if the Empress is simply an extremely convincing android doppleganger created to replace the real Empress who would have died a long time ago.