Go ahead and do very quick (and brief) writeups--a name and about three or four word description so that we can tell them apart should do the trick.  :-)<br/><br/>I suspect there will be quite a few all-girl orgies going on around here even without the PCs being involved.<br/><br/>ETA...new faction!  TESLA.  It's probably an acronym, but nobody knows what it stands for.  These are the sector equivalent of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.  Weird Science with body armor, blasters, and suspiciously heavily armed ships.  They do research.  They do field research.  They sometimes descend on otherwise quiet little xenoarchaeology sites and cart everything away to be studied by top specialists.  Their press releases are notoriously tight-lipped.<br/><br/>Goals: Discover!  Experiment!  Study! DO SCIENCE!<br/>Positive attitudes: curious and usually helpful, generous with funding, trying to prevent an apocalypse or three<br/>Negative attitudes: all take and no give, creepy and mysterious, arrogant nerds