Firefly-esque it is!  So your chosen workspaces will go on the ship in one of the four general locations on the ship.<br/><br/>We're kind of jumping ahead a bit, straight to<em>designing</em>the factions before formally establishing how many there are in the first place.  Since you all seem okay with a more complicated, less black-and-white sort of setup, might as well call it:<br/><br/>Five in all.  One faction per player, plus yours truly.  I will go last, so as to fill any gaps we've left.<br/><br/>And speaking of jumping ahead...Kimmy, what you're thinking would fit under a category that's in Far Beyond Humanity: an Alien species that is a Faction into itself.   :-)