Milan, Italy, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: A silver hex field, with no ordinary, and a plum mechanical peacock charge.
Apparel house founded by Gerardino "Dino" Santoro, spanning the whole garment supply chain: textile synthesis, manufacturing, design, branding, and retail. Every human in settled space wears Dino Santoro products, whether they know it or not.
Skyhaven, Salvation, Prima
Patch: A crimson hex field, with no ordinary, and a gold mechanical dragon's-head charge.
Dragonscale Safety Technology produces the environment suits and armour systems used across hazardous industrial settings, civilian infrastructure, and corporate security. Its equipment is the baseline for safety and survivability everywhere, from sealed maintenance facilities to conflict-prone corporate zones.
Geneva, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: A blue square field, with no ordinary, and a charge of a circle where the bottom half is filled in sand.
Political movement advocating for the primacy of Earth citizenship and the preservation of Earther privileges in UN governance. Membership drawn primarily from Earth's approximately 150 million families - the wealthiest population in human history, where even the poorest residents hold assets measured in billions.
Roarkestown, Salvation, Prima
Patch: An olive hex field, with no ordinary, and a yellow mechanical skunk charge.
Grendel Skunkworks is a heavy-engineering corporation focused on the reconstruction and long-term maintenance of Grendels. The company does not manufacture complete Grendels; it specialises in refurbishing existing chassis and producing compatible subsystems, including armour components, actuator assemblies, hydraulic structures, and standardised hardpoints.
None (decentralised)
Patch: A purple square field, with no ordinary, and a gold mechanical ouroboros charge.
Loose confederacy of independent criminal chapters originating in the Vasken system. Each chapter operates autonomously within its territory under a Boss, with Brothers as full members. No central leadership exists; disputes resolve through inter-chapter councils or violence. Hermandad does not perceive itself as criminal; members view themselves as a legitimate brotherhood providing for their community.
Crucible Dome, Ironhold (Vasken II)
Patch: A purple heater field, with no ordinary, and a gold mechanical donkey charge.
Resistance faction formed around Viceroy Ricardo Salazar, the Concordance-appointed governor of Vasken who refused to flee when the Sons of Thule activated. Salazar was an exiled Earth aristocrat who had built something on Vasken and would not cede it.
Yokohama, Japan, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: An orange hex field, with no ordinary, and a blue anchor charge.
Interstellar industrial conglomerate. Its main business is the manufacture of 5D Translation Generators and high-tonnage vessel hulls, with revenue coming through the direct sale and servicing of spacecraft.
Kalmon Kinematics Campus, Lacus Somniorum, Lunar Near Side
Patch: A silver hex field, with no ordinary, and an indigo golem's-head charge.
Kalmon Kinematics produces the standardised humanoid Golems, supplying the chassis, head modules, and servomechanisms used across industrial, domestic, and service sectors. Its lunar campus at Lacus Somniorum hosts a large-scale servofabrication complex, making KK a central pillar of inter-settlement automation.
Patriot, Indiana, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: A sand hex field, with a crimson bend ordinary, and a gold mechanical eagle's-head charge.
Patriot Armoury manufactures human weapon systems. While it presents itself as an independent, publicly traded arms producer, its strategic direction is controlled by Ikari Heavy Industries through concealed ownership structures, aligning its output with IHI's wider industrial and logistical objectives.
Roarkestown, Salvation (Prima III)
Patch: A grey heater field, with no ordinary, and an orange cog charge.
Resistance movement formed in the early days of the Reunification Wars when the Sons of Thule activated across colonial space. Founded by Rohan Cheng, a Roarkestown factory worker who organised the city's industrial workforce into a fighting force after those in authority fled.
None (franchise model)
Patch: None recorded.
Quick Bits Crew. A franchise criminal network operating across settled space. Each chapter runs independently, paying a cut upward for access to fencing networks, smuggling routes, and territorial recognition. QBC takes anyone willing to work. Exit is simple: stop working, stop earning.
Roarkestown, Salvation (Prima System)
Patch: A grey heater field, with no ordinary, and a crimson mechanical hound's-head charge.
Centralised bounty hunting organisation founded in the industrial heart of Prima. Rangers take contracts posted by UN authorities and local governments for individuals wanted dead or alive.
Unknown
Patch: A silver square field, with no ordinary, and a gold key charge.
Saxum Clavatum ("The Keystone") is a secret society predating the Collapse, with origins in pre-spaceflight antiquity.
None (Thule Prime destroyed 3110)
Patch: A grey square field, with no ordinary, and a silver triple-lambda charge.
Fascist raider state built on fabricated mythology combining misinterpreted Norse, Rus, Germanic, and Spartan historical elements. Society is modelled on ancient Sparta: a warrior caste supported entirely by slave labour. Sons of Thule do not work. They train, they fight, they raid.
Earth (Sol System)
Patch: A silver round field, with no ordinary, and a gold fractal-star charge.
Founded in 2115 as a republic of sovereign city-states. Governed through the Articles of Concordance, which were never reformed.
Distributed (divisional garrisons across colonial systems)
Patch: A sand heater field, with no ordinary, and a black dagger erect through a horseshoe charge.
Largest private military company in human space. Maintains approximately 14,000 personnel organised into seven divisions, with one division garrisoned in each colonial system. Sol system excluded from operations by standing agreement.
Paradise City, Elysium (Nexa II)
Patch: A rose heater field, with no ordinary, and a silver diamond charge.
Originally the Elysium Outfit - the organisation that ran Nexa's entertainment economy. Not a criminal enterprise - on Elysium, vice is commerce. The Outfit controlled the casinos, resorts, and services that were the planet's entire economy.
Assault Carrier New Nassau (mobile)
Patch: A sand square field, with no ordinary, and an orange chalice charge.
Pirate organisation originating from Reunification War veterans. Operates from the assault carrier "New Nassau", a mobile base captured during the conflict. Governed by the Congress of Captains, a republican body where each vessel captain holds equal vote. No central commander; strategic decisions require majority consensus.
New York, United States, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver ship's-bell charge.
United Nations Combat Legionnaires, Assault and Interdiction Mechanised Expeditionary Detachment. Primary operations involve anti-piracy actions, counter-boarding operations, shipboard security, hostile vessel interdiction, and maintaining order aboard UN and contracted civilian vessels. UNCLAIMED draws heavily from individuals seeking redemption, escape from their past, or accepting assignment as alternative to incarceration. Legionnaires who complete their service earn full UN citizenship and have records expunged.
Classified
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver mechanical unicorn's-head charge.
United Nations Interstellar Covert Operations and Reconnaissance Network. Primary operations involve intelligence gathering, counter-intelligence, covert operations, and strategic reconnaissance across all settled systems. Maintains networks of informants, conducts surveillance operations, performs threat assessment, and executes classified missions as directed by the UN Security Council.
New York, United States, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver chess-rook charge.
United Nations Infantry Fortifications and Integrated Emplacement Defence. Primary operations involve garrisoning colonial settlements, establishing defensive fortifications, and providing integrated defensive capabilities through combined arms warfare. Personnel are primarily reservists activated for tours of garrison duty, similar to National Guard or Territorial Army models.
New York, United States, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver scales charge.
United Nations Interstellar Law Enforcement. The Gendarmerie. Paramilitary police force answering directly to the UN Senate, with jurisdiction across all settled systems.
New York, United States, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver fulcrum charge.
United Nations Infrastructure Quality and Universal Engineering. Primary operations involve establishing and enforcing universal engineering standards for all construction, infrastructure development, and utility systems across settled space. Responsible for quality assurance, safety protocols, and technical specifications for habitats, life support, power generation, water treatment, and all critical infrastructure.
New York, United States, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver delta-and-rings charge.
United Nations Space Command and Operations Management. Primary operations involve command and operation of all UN military vessels from Frigates to capital ships. Responsible for ship-to-ship combat, orbital defence, fleet coordination, naval logistics, and strategic space operations. Maintains the largest concentration of military firepower in settled space.
Classified
Patch: An azure round field, with no ordinary, and a silver skull-and-spear charge.
United Nations Special Engagement, Extraction and Neutralisation. Primary operations involve surgical strikes against high-value tactical targets, hostage rescue, intelligence gathering through direct action, rendition of enemy leadership, and neutralisation of critical threats. Missions are typically classified and conducted with full plausible deniability. Operators commonly refer to themselves as "Ghosts".
None (decentralised)
Patch: A red square field, with no ordinary, and a black fist-and-chain charge.
Decentralised socialist movement operating across all systems with significant worker populations. Membership estimated in the millions. UWC cells seize individual manufacturing facilities from IHI and its subsidiaries, establishing worker ownership under the principle "Workers keep what we make".
Shanghai, China, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: A black hex field, with no ordinary, and a green Bohr-model lithium atom charge.
Xu Applied Physics manufactures ground vehicles and auxiliary craft. The corporation began as a research laboratory in Shanghai, where in 2314 it developed the Higgs-Compensator, the device that makes anti-gravity propulsion possible.
Singapore, Earth (Sol System)
Patch: A grey hex field, with no ordinary, and a charge of three brown wavy lines.
Zephyr Services runs interstellar freight and courier operations. In the absence of faster-than-light communication, physical transport of data, documents, packages, and cargo remains the only way to move information and goods between star systems.