Heretic Vanguard

----The Heretic Vanguard have been changed into a fully functioning faction with an economic and military infrastructure. This faction is an Anti-xeno faction and hate all races except for their own, the Argon. They are in a Civil War with the Argon government because of the Argon government's protection of Terrans, who they feel are the enemy. After the Xenon incident where Xenon flooded through the gates into Omicron Lyrae and the rest of the galaxy, the Heretic Vanguard faction, along with many Argon defectors, fled into Maelstrom and began rapidly fortifying their sector of Maelstrom. With considerable resources from unknown contributors they were able to quickly create a military and economy to stand up to the might of the Argon government whom lost much of their military might against the Xenon.

Xenon

The Xenon have been changed somewhat to represent a pseudo-faction. There is now a Xenon start where you play as a new Xenon synthetic lifeform. The Xenon now have their very own UNIQUE shipyard as well as a giant WARP station. Xenon use basic raw resources to produce their ships. Warp stations are built in order to warp in Xenon fleets for invasion purposes. The Xenon will now actively seek out areas of space to invade and if left completely unchecked, may end up destroying everything!