Thx RavenX, the more diversification the better I'd say. 

Well, never seen a movie adopting it, but regarding the books it is a very own Sci-Fi Cherryh universe. Link about in first post.  

Update:

- added Majat Hive faction (known to be within Alliance shpere of influence)

- added FG, BG, Portraits, Logos, custom setup jpg

Sooner then later I'm reaching the end of oxygen breathing races. Still not sure weather to just bring the methan-breathing factions fast as synthetics or to go for deeper modding to get those methan worlds in the game. I guess I will do synthetics and update them later. Still count on Stardock to bring extreme world starting factions with DLC.

Skukkuk --> Maybe you create another custom race? I miss the race Asgard from the TV show - Stargate. http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Asgard This is a great race My favorite . And great to be complementary with your created races. 

Would you be interested in creating Asgard race? I'd be grateful

Oo thank you very much

Well, as I'm using graphics and also logos from this side too, this may happen. Feel free to change over for your personal comfort. 

Update:

- added T'ca, Chi and Knnn as methane breathing factions

- currently methane-breathers do use synthetic setup as placeholder

- I'd really recommand to have those 3 methane factions in 1 team for better experience

- as tribute to author's original creation you may avoid any interactions with chaotic Knnn or crazy Chi  

- as soon as something like gas planets are playable, those factions get reworked

- as the graphics blew up my webspace I decided to rework the whole graphics for smaller packets

- to avoid naming convention issues I copied and renamed all factions

Update:

With Opt-In Version 1.1 I added factions in

a Workshop Collection. (Link in first post)

Thx to all backers, graphic uploaders and last but not least you players. My faction-mod has more then +3000 hits...quite nice to see and good motivation for bringing some more stuff. Most likely I start a new project or simply add new single factions since Alliance-Union universe has nearly reached the end from what the author has offered. At least I have to wait for Stardock or other modders to bring game mechanism for better integration of methane-breathers or starting a complete conversation with balanced diplomatic structures regarding author's design. First announced DLC might offer ability to create custom maps... 

At current I have a ticket running at Stardock regarding multiplayer usability. It is a bit weird, as I could play 'some' of my factions in MP, while others got me hangup while transfering custom faction data. For sure I get hangup if I try to integrate more then one modded custom factions. All factions work on singleplayer, no problem. 

Probably I have to delete and re-install complete game as I'm in from Founders Edition and it might have kept old code snippets which may cause it. Also I was informed about, that if you have MP-savegames from before 1.03 which are restored from Steam cloud synchronisation, it may cause the problem. At least Stardock does a good job with patching and upgrading, so they'll surely adress this issue sometimes. Just a bit annoying to me, that I'm not able to setup a complete Alliance-Union MP-game.

Did anybody else encounter problems starting MP with my modded custom factions? 

Update:

- added Caliban Unification (somehow splitt faction of Cyteen Union)

- added FG, BG, Portraits, Logos, custom setup jpg

- decided to switch from manual download toward Workshop

If you might get a little bit more specific, I probably could help. 

All graphics are in PNG, the only jpg are the manual download added ones, but not needed, pictures included in first post. 

Don't know about any html, sry. If you upgrade game toward version 1.10 you could load all factions with GC3 Steam workshop directly. 

Admiral, the Alliance Union factions are not mods. They need to be d/l to your faction folder, not in your mod folder. They work fine for me in the faction folder