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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf
Aren't the Patrol just the police arm of the Diverse Federation of Nice Guys, like Star Trek's Starfleet, rather than being a faction in their own right?
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I think in Gurps Space "faction" just means "generic organization"*. I will have to look that up.
The OFS in Harrington is definitely a political contender in it's own right and are also not nice guys. But they also qualify as a Patrol, kind of like a municipal police subverted by the mob on an extranormous scale.
*I guess not looking that up. The book just uses "organizations". However I think that is what the OP is getting at anyway.