[warning - what follows is a very nerdy rant]
I'm still confused as to whether this is a full on space empire or just a local faction we're dealing with here. Who sends the Emperor of dozens of planets to colonize a rimworld? That vast distance between our rimworlds and everything else was part of the charm of rimworld for me. You're truly all alone and have been completely abandoned in a strange and hard universe, where all semblance of society and structure is trillions of miles away and it's up to you to make both of those things on your own. No one can help you, there is no meaning or purpose to your time on the rim but what you make of it, whether that includes escaping to that vast beyond and finding hyperbliss on a glitterworld, wreaking brutal havock on your neighbors, or something else: anything else you can imagine because the setting is so free. It's true freedom, a faction striking out by itself to survive in what is really a tormented sci fi hellscape half the ...