User blog comment:Nults McKagan/RP Idea: Faction Roleplay/@comment-24770123-20130811041010/@comment-4093783-20130811233940

My current thought is to remove the incorporation of Spanish/French factions/sub-factions completely and allow pirates to make up their own back stories for themselves.

Ex: A guild called the "Spanish Pirates" could talk about how they all came from Spain and serve under the Spanish government as privateers, but at the end of the day, everybody is either Pirate or EITC. No Spanish, no French, etc.