Unrequited Love

Of the thousands of factions, there was a small portion which was not ruled by an entity which was able to gifts to its strongest followers. A few of those factions, for example, were the draconic dynasty.. as well as the mercenary faction, and the merchant faction.

While these three factions did not have any elites, their numbers made up for the generally lower power of its members. In fact, many of the powerful warriors which were denied a gift in the other factions, would end up being employed by the mercenary, merchant, and other factions formed by power and money, and focused on the the pursuit of power and money.

These factions were usually not allowed to join the competition for unexplored territories, so whenever there was a planet left drifting through space all by itself, these second class factions would fight for it.. As the other factions had no use to them. One example of this, was the city in the asteroid which Daniel, Aeron, and Xargy had been to a month earlier.