派系

安塔雷斯倡协

当“灭星者”陨石被发现时，火星上的早期常驻基地才刚刚取得一点成效。在还没完全实现自给自足的时候，这个年轻的殖民基地就必须要做出艰难的决定——继续改造火星使其宜居并接受一切可能由地球完全毁灭带来的各种后果，或更改规划为传薪计划做出贡献。居民们对此争执不下，最终导致了安塔雷斯倡协（Antares Initiative）的独立并决定采用一种成本低廉的方式抵达新家园。由于科技水平较为基础因此在火星上物尽其用。他们是最先启程离开的，且乘坐的是多艘小型自动化飞船。由于其欠于标准的推进系统，他们最终反而较晚到达新家园。

伽斯蒂尤-伊藤商业

派系：伽斯蒂尤-伊藤商业

伽斯蒂尤-伊藤商业（Castillo-Ito Mercantile）是世界领先的机器人自动化科技公司：伊藤机器人集团，与伽斯蒂尤集团——版图涉及矿业、能源、运输和金融产品等类别的跨国股份公司——商业合并后的产物。此公司的净资产值轻易超过了多个欧洲国家的总和。他们很早就加入了传薪计划并在一开始就有清晰的战略规划。他们选取位于重要战略位置的关键行星，组装多批可靠的世代飞船，这些飞船最终全部成功地抵达并着陆于4个临近恒星系中的行星上。坐拥重要资源的产地，他们计划施展自己的雄心壮志并成为新世界中一股主要势力。

Exodus Council

After initial attempts on part of various nation-states to get programs to build generation ships off the ground, it quickly became apparent that private entities were a lot faster in achieving this goal. In fear of losing control over the process, well-connected politicians and other individuals of influence used their networks to force any company that planned on leaving for the new worlds to join the newly founded Exodus Council which oversaw the allocation of surveyed systems to interested parties. The original bidding system designed for this purpose later turned into the omnipresent APEX system used for everything related to transnational and later trans-planetary trade and commerce. As the Exodus Council made money with more or less every transaction related to the exodus project, they came to enormous financial resources. Combined with the intelligence at their disposal they were able to launch generation ships themselves. They were by far the fastest and most advanced models sent out and despite leaving relatively late, were among the first to reach the new systems. They picked a single well-located star system along very likely trade routes to all other factions to found their colony. Instead of colonizing the system’s planets they transformed their colony ships into one big space station known as Cibola Station.

因希特集团

在传薪计划之前，南美洲已经成为了世界的菜篮子，而在这片大洲上的国家和集团准备在新世界中融为一体。在因希特银行，一家由农业和生物科技公司控股的集团，的主导下，他们选择了一种集约化的方案：建造一艘巨大、自给自足、带有更多温室和牲畜运载能力的世代飞船，这艘飞船比其它任何派系的设计都要更加巨大。为了满足这巨大的资源需求，他们推动其政府国有化了几乎所有矿业公司。他们殖民的目标是一颗被称为普罗密托（Promitor）的异常肥沃的行星。

NEO章程探索

NCE是最早一家宇宙空间采矿公司。欧洲君主国授予的特许状允许他们利用地球和小行星带之间的已命名的近地天体。当传薪计划曝光后，他们已经有了开始建造大型世代飞船的一切必需基础设施。为了实现这一目标，他们捕获了一颗小行星，将其挖空并使用开采出来的矿物生产了必需的系统。所有这些行动都与地球相对独立，但是NCE仍然选择参与APEX系统以获取仅在地球上才能获取的基金和部件。在他们抵达富矿恒星系后，他们将世代飞船停泊在一艘行星的环绕轨道上并在另一颗行星上用小型飞船完成了着陆。