User blog comment:Jesse Abbott/WWR: Iron Wolves/@comment-26403572-20160217012818/@comment-27813041-20160217042947

Im glad that you liked it. I would love the opportunity to write for or be licensed by Pixonic. That is only a question of whether or not theyd want me too.

You bring up a good point about the factions and robot origins. When I wrote Iron Wolves none of the workshop 'bots had been released but they had been announced so I was trying to elude to their arrival. Also when I started writing I was not aware of any official factions and only discovered the 5 listed recently. By chance, and as part of my inspiration I noticed that the older robots appeared to be Russian, German, and America/British so I was assuming they were antiques from and ancient world war.

So despite my lack of information up front I think that my suggestion of three factions: 1. Independent Lunar Cities 2. Protectorate of Mercury 3. Confederacy (?) of Mars still work if considering the factions that Pixonic lists as an explanation of origins and not current political factions.

That said, I would happily work out the differences with Pixonic if they are interested in further developing the backstory and universe of WWR. For now I will treat the five Pixonic factions as recent history and use my three for stories. This is partly for simplicity for me and also to simply explain why any, player, group, clan or faction seems to have access to all robots and weapons. Additionally I have no idea how much thought Pixonic has put into their factions or if they have further plans for fleshing them out. So it is easier for me to treat them as recent history and not as immediately relevant to my stories.