Pirates
Trade, repairs, salvage, or a job with a crew. Independence leaves room to make your own arrangements, but no central authority guarantees that the next deal will feed you.
Inside the faction → ← Official WikiPowers of the Void Who owns
Who owns
your desire?
The Order would silence it. PleasureTech would sell it back to you. Pirates would rather decide for themselves.
These are not neat blocks on a map. Their reach follows people, routes, contracts, and the choices that keep a crew together.
Same needs.
Different terms.
Work, pleasure, care, and the right to refuse. The differences become clearer when the question is an ordinary part of somebody’s day.
You need a living.
Order of Abstinence
Education and service can offer a profession and a place in a durable institution. The danger comes when the obligation matters more than the person who agreed to it.
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Hedonists
Corporate employment can come with useful infrastructure and access to services. Leaving becomes harder when the employer also supplies the necessities of daily life.
Inside the faction →You want an evening of your own.
Pirates
A film, a noisy performance, a meal, or chosen company need not justify themselves. Freedom of taste is the attraction; a safe venue and trustworthy company are separate questions.
Inside the faction →Order of Abstinence
Imperial music, stories, and ceremonies still exist. Art that celebrates duty has room to flourish; experiences that encourage appetite or attachment face suspicion.
Inside the faction →Hedonists
Entertainment and intimacy can be tailored to personal taste. The experience may be wonderful, while the provider’s influence over that taste is much harder to see.
Inside the faction →Someone offers to change you.
Pirates
The pirate ideal leaves the decision with you. Fjela chose to have her implant removed by Sabrina; that trust between people is not a guarantee of care in every free port.
Inside the faction →Order of Abstinence
The Order presents correction as release from desires that control you. When authority decides which feelings are acceptable, treatment can take away the ability to choose.
Inside the faction →Hedonists
Medicine and customization can deliver a change someone genuinely wants. Under debt or dependency, the same promise can become another party’s power over a body or identity.
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Desire belongs to the person who feels it.Pirates
Independent captains, escaped subjects, smugglers, and crews who would rather take their chances than let someone else decide who they should be.
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Freedom begins when desire no longer commands you.Order of Abstinence
An imperial spiritual and political authority that treats pleasure as dependence, discipline as liberation, and the ungoverned self as something in need of correction.
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Happiness can be designed. The question is who holds the contract.Hedonists
PleasureTech Industries™ builds its power around bodies, experiences, and the people who want them. “Hedonists” is the everyday name for those connected to its world.
Explore the faction →Different people. Shared names.
A faction does not tell you everything about a person. Origins, loyalties, and life aboard the crew can be far more complicated.
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