minor factions

I couldn't find any information on this, so I thought I'd ask here. I just colonized a new system, my second one, and the game put in a seemingly random minor faction instead of what my squadron is aligned to. Is this a bug, or was the problem perhaps that the system would have ended up with...

o7 Commanders. With Power Play 2 launched, I'm considering my path forward as a Commander, Squadron Leader, and PMF founder. So I have questions which may have overlapping answers. I've searched around, but much of the existing information pertained to the old PP system, and I'm assuming is...

Good afternoon commanders. Our recent faction submission was approved and our player faction Asterion has been placed in the Partii system. If any commanders are out there flying near the system and want to pick up some influence missions for Asterion, that would be much appreciated...

The following suggestion is designed to cost minimal effort (minor backend coding and no additional ingame assets of any kind) but massively improve the experience of minor faction and squadron play and purpose. The short description is basically extending some power-play-like mechanics to minor...