Rifts between factions... caused by the usual "the factions turn political in their adult age", or by outside forces? The first is more likely, but for drama, an enemy is better. So maybe some unnamed enemy (we shall say nothing about that mysterious secret chinese asteroid base, doing god knows what) exacerbating the normal tensions of a nation growing up?
I have been playing for an idea of a minor faction/maybe prank group for my avatar, and I think I will go and write it up, because this gives me ideas.
What I had planned in short, until i get the proper writeup done: Oscar is one of the people which believe than Handwavium works with imagination and dreams, and that's why dane bureaucrats have such a hard time handwaving things. But as the Great Five grow up, they face the risk of getting complacent and bureaucratic themselves.
So one of Oscar friends, which had the same idea, gathered a few buddies, and they decided to create a society to help minor factions -as many of then as they can. Those are to build a safety net: If the Federation crawls into complacency and boring mediocrity, maybe the Honor Harrington guys will take the torch and start exploring and building epic space stations in their place.
This would not be a completely serious secret group at the beginning (the creator would be the same guy who had the idea to build the prank space station Kickassia), but as things go worse, they would start to take their fancy ideas more seriously.
I have been playing for an idea of a minor faction/maybe prank group for my avatar, and I think I will go and write it up, because this gives me ideas.
What I had planned in short, until i get the proper writeup done: Oscar is one of the people which believe than Handwavium works with imagination and dreams, and that's why dane bureaucrats have such a hard time handwaving things. But as the Great Five grow up, they face the risk of getting complacent and bureaucratic themselves.
So one of Oscar friends, which had the same idea, gathered a few buddies, and they decided to create a society to help minor factions -as many of then as they can. Those are to build a safety net: If the Federation crawls into complacency and boring mediocrity, maybe the Honor Harrington guys will take the torch and start exploring and building epic space stations in their place.
This would not be a completely serious secret group at the beginning (the creator would be the same guy who had the idea to build the prank space station Kickassia), but as things go worse, they would start to take their fancy ideas more seriously.