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**Goonrathi** - what could be said of these rag-tag empire of individuals? Usually nothing good. With the discipline of an army of cats crossing a field full of tinfoil, the Goonrathi contains thousands of unique cultures, none of which are very relevant because we decided to lump them all in one faction, with one set of ships.

Goonrathi ships tend to be worn down with loving care. New ships are rare because the faction only has one functioning space foundry, and due to an extremely odd typo policy dictates all new ships must be completely peed upon by a specialist team of “Christener Pissiners”. Understandably, there is quite a backlog of ships to receive this time-honored traditional treatment before it is launched into space and immediately hijacked by a culture of cat folk, who call themselves the “Pee-Grabs”.

After the P-Grabs are bored with hijacking a ship (usually by nap-time) they ditch it for mere-microcredits to a reputable (ha!) starship dealer, who, after getting the incredible stink off of it inside and out, put it up on the free market either wholesale or, if the smell is particularly bad, broken down into parts that are then further “Febreezed”. This has gone on for centuries and no one has really questioned it, other than to shrug and say “at least it's not like the Stimpire!”

As a result, Goonrathi ships are usually a hodgepodge of parts. Fortunately, parts from different models are deliberately made interchangeable in order to boost sales while waiting for the aforementioned brand new ships to come off the line. As a result each Goonrathi take great pains to keep their ship in good working order - no matter what. This has led to a culture of “stealing anything not nailed down to a ship, including the ship”, with the justification that if the other party did not want their poo poo stolen, they shouldn't have made it stealable in the first place.

Goonrathi, in short, are huge assholes.