The Autonomous Diaspora

The Autonomous Diaspora is a collective of like-minded (or at least similarly-minded) "space-steader" groups that engage in voluntary association with one another. Mostly made up of refugees and outcasts from the sector's more authoritarian entities, the primary goal of the Diaspora is self-sufficiency outside of oppressive frameworks. Their secondary goal is to argue about the exact meaning of their primary goal.

Structure

Individual Diasporan groups are self-governing, and often diverge wildly in structure and ideology beyond a lack of traditional hierarchy. Typically a group will have a decisionmaking council made up of representatives responsible for relaying issues and seeking resolutions, though whether these representatives are elected or volunteered depends on the group. Smaller groups may eschew this entirely, and handle all matters via community consensus.

Assets

Diasporan groups make do with technology considered "obsolete" by most other factions, repairing and reusing as much as possible and manufacturing in situ what they cannot. Ships and structures tend to look older, more weathered, or completely broken down, though their occupants insist otherwise. The single greatest asset to any Diasporan group is whatever ship they arrived to their present location in, whether it be a massive colony ship or a modest freighter. The difficulty of starting a community on an alien world is lessened significantly when one has a second home in orbit with amenities that will take decades to set up planetside, and in the event of catastrophe the group can simply evacuate and look for a new home. Once a community is permanently established, these ships will often be rebuilt into space stations.

Foreign Relations

Diasporans are often ignored or treated as a tolerable nuisance by other entities, though they can be commonly found doing grunt work on contract - as laborers, mercenaries, or even bounty hunters. Dealing with their communities is often seen as "unnecessarily difficult" and it is rare to find a group in some kind of voluntary long-term arrangement with outsiders.

Type

Social, Group

Alternative Names

Spacers, "Space Truckers"

Demonym

Diasporan

Government System

Anarchy

Economic System

Barter system

Currency