Type: Mad scientists / Nihilistic cult Leader:Dr. Malik Vein Origin: Once a top-secret scientific division. After a failed experiment merging consciousness with AI, they lost faith in reality. They rejected humanity, emotion, and structure. Now they serve only the void — seeking to erase all purpose and order.
I once had a faction idea (I had a few but this is the original one), years ago back when Founders were added and there was no syndicate etc and they were trying to take off pun intended with the Ravens
I can’t remember what the name was or if I ever even got that far, but basically it was a group of people dressing up as clowns (or at least doing the face make-up) and the idea was that they were even beyond Lunatics in terms of insanity, straight up jump pad launchers, Daze-like modules, things that make no sense like a bouncing cabin, exploding self destructing wheels that damage the enemy and also your own build, more suicide weapons like the lance etc.
And they could also be expanded upon and have a wide array of parts, because the idea was that they’d go around stealing tech from various factions and then jury rigging it to kinda work so you could have things like imagine a bunch of clown-lunatics stole a high tech Dawns Children energy weapon and somehow got it to work and do something against all odds with basically hitting it with a hammer until it works. Or stealing some military weapon system from the Steppenwolves and then jury rigging it to work, but it’s calibrated all wrong and basically high tech military misile system is now just spewing rockets randomly like a malfunctioning piece of equipment that has taken too many bonks because Bobsky the Mechanic clown thought it would be funny to hit it with a sledgehammer until some paneling fell off and then spilled something onto the control board, and Lamsky the explosive expert clown thought it’s be funny to modify the missiles by making them way 2explosive4thegun and just cramming in extra explosive material and wrapping it all up with duct tape. Maybe a legendary Lancelot that’s just a repurposed Gasgen on a stick
Me and the boys after we stole some doom and fortune ammunition and we’re going to make wheels out of them that explode by themselves for cheap giggles
Talking of factions not by general part theme alone but aesthetics, I also toyed around with an idea of a turbo-goth faction, where all the parts are ridiculously “fancy” and everyone in it basically wears nothing but black leather, does the whole KISS-style face paint and basically pretends to be vampires, drinks blood and so on. Basic highschool goth kid stuff but turned to the max
Structural and decoration parts would be very neat, yet awkward to build with. A 100% style over functionality kind of a faction, massive gothic parts with very little attachment points and so on. Rather than small parts like fenders etc, most of their parts would be massive chunky parts, like Horo, Saya, Sikoro and so on. Even something like a fender part would be like 3 wide and 12 long and have a lot of extra on it and riddled with goth styling
as an added extra, some of the already existing decoration parts would fit with the aesthetics od this faction, like the lanterns and a few headlights
“Embrace the void. Let all meaning burn.”
