Faction

The term "faction," in its original meaning, refers to a game-defined collection of NPC characters who all share an affiliation with an in-game race, government, or organization. By completing quests and killing NPC's, players can affect their standing with a particular faction, which can cause members of that faction to treat the player differently. Of course, "faction" is now primarily used as a reference to the two primary Star Wars factions: the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance. These are the only two factions that a player can actively join and announce their affiliation with.

To view your standing with the game's factions, open your Character Sheet to the Factions tab. Your standing with each listed faction will be a number ranging from 5000 to -5000; this number represents how NPC's will react to you. The lower the number, the more hostile NPC's of that faction will be towards you. The higher the number, the more they consider you to be an ally. To raise or your Faction standings with any faction group, you must kill that faction's enemies.

Very high standing with a faction will cause that faction's NPC's to treat you passively, even if they are normally aggressive (red). Very low standing will cause most NPC's to attack you on sight, even if they are normally passive.

Most NPC's belonging to a faction's enemy will attack that faction's NPC's on sight. If an NPC sees you attacking a faction enemy, it will usually assist you in your fight.

Factional allies will assist an NPC of a faction if they seem one engaged in a fight.

Rebel
Enemies: Imperial

Imperial
Enemies: Rebel

Aa'kuans
Found on: Talus Enemies: Binayre Pirates, Fed Dub, Liberation Party

These anarchists believe that all living beings have the right to govern themselves and that no authority (specifically, no government) should invade anyones's individual space. Their doctrines, though extreme, find many followers on fiercely independent Corellia. Aa'kuans take their name from the old Corellian term aa'kua, "respect" (literally "respecting space").

SWG Lore from the loading screen

Afarathu
Enemies: CorSec

Alkhara
Enemies: Tusken Raider

Bandit
Enemies: Townsperson

Beldonna's League
Enemies: Followers of Lord Nyax, Lost Aqualish Regiment

Binayre Pirates
Enemies: Aakuans, CorSec, FedDub

Bloodrazor
Enemies: Canyon Corsair, Nym

Borvo
Enemies: Gungan, Jabba, Trade Federation

Canyon Corsair
Enemies: Bloodrazor, Nym

Cobral
Enemies: Restuss Brigade

Corellian Swoop Gang
Enemies: Smashball Thug

CorSec
Enemies: Arafathu, Followers of Lord Nyax, Monumenter, Rogue CorSec, Lost Aqualish Regiment Allies: Beldonna's League

Dantari Raiders
Enemies: Kunga Tribe, Mokk, Janta Tribe

Desert Demon
Enemies: Swoop

Donkuwah Tribe
Enemies: Gondula Tribe, Panshee Tribe

Drall
Enemies: CorSec, Fed Dub

Endor Marauder
Enemies: Gondula Tribe, Panshee Tribe

Fed Dub
Enemies: Binayre Pirates, Drall, Liberation Party, Lost Aqualish Regiment

Flail Cutthroat
Enemies: Hidden Daggers

Followers of Lord Nyax
Enemies: Beldonna's League, CorSec

Garyn
Enemies: Restuss Brigade

Gondula Tribe
Enemies: Donkuwah Tribe, Korga, Pubam, Endor Marauder Allies: Panshee Tribe

Gungan
Enemies: Borvo, Plasma Thief, Swamp Rat

Hidden Daggers
Enemies: Beldonna's League, CorSec, Flail Cutthroat Allies: Rogue CorSec

Hutt
Enemies: CorSec, Imperial, Naboo Security Force, Narmle Police Forces, Nym,

Jabba
Enemies: Borvo, Valarian

Janta Tribe
Enemies: Kunga Tribe, Dantari Raiders

Jawa
Enemies: Tusken Raider

Kobola
Enemies: Narmle Police Forces, Spice Collective

Korga
Enemies: Gondula Tribe, Panshee Tribe

Kunga Tribe
Enemies: Dantari Raiders, Mokk

Liberation Party
Enemies: CorSec, Fed Dub

Lok Mercenaries
Enemies: Bloodrazor, Canyon Corsair

Lost Aqualish Regiment
Found on: Talus Enemies: Beldonna's League, CorSec, Fed Dub

Ancestors of the aqualish warriors were secretly positioned on Talus during the Aqualish-Corellian War centuries ago, but were forgotten when the war ended. Believing that the war would one day begin anew, the Talus Aqualish have kept their base hidden fromeveryone, especially the human settlers on Talus.

SWG Lore from the loading screen

Meatlump
Enemies: Beldonna's League, CorSec, Rogue CorSec

Mokk
Enemies: Dantari Raiders, Janta Tribe

Monumenter
Enemies: Beldonna's League, CorSec

Naboo
Enemies: Borvo

Naboo Pirate
Enemies: Naboo Security Force

Naboo Security Force
Enemies: Borvo, Naboo Pirate, Plasma Thief, Swamp Rat, Trade Federation

Naboo Police Forces
Enemies: Korbola, Spice Brigade Allies: Restuss Brigade

Nightsister
Enemies: Imperial, Singing Mountain Clan

Nym
Enemies: Bloodrazor, Canyon Corsair

Olag Grek
Enemies: Beldonna's League, CorSec

Panshee Tribe
Enemies: Donkuwah Tribe, Endor Marauder, Korga, Pubam Allies: Gondula Tribe

Plasma Thief
Enemies: Gungan

Pubam
Enemies: Gondula Tribe, Panshee Tribe

Restuss Brigade
Enemies: Cobral, Garyn Allies: Narmle Police Forces

Rogue CorSec
Enemies: CorSec Allies: Hidden Daggers

Rorgungan
Enemies: Spice Collective

Sif
Enemies: Imperial, Rebel Allies: Hutt

Singing Mountain Clan
Enemies: Nightsister

Sith Shadow
Enemies: Aurilia Villager Allies: Imperial, Rebel

Sith Shadow Assassin
Enemies: Aurilia Villager Allies: Imperial, Rebel

Smashball Thug
Enemies: Corellian Swoop Gang, CorSec

Spice Collective
Enemies: Narmle Police Forces, Kobola, Rorgungan

Spider Clan
Enemies: Singing Mountain Clan

Swamp Rat
Enemies: Gungan

Swoop
Enemies: Desert Demon

Thug
Enemies: Townsperson

Townsperson
Enemies: Bandit, Thug Allies: Imperial, Rebel

Trade Federation
Enemies: Borvo, Naboo Security Force

Tusken Raider
Enemies: Alkhara, Jawa

Valarian
Enemies: Jabba