This thread needs some OC.
Anybody here ever play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri? It actually has a very robust system for making custom factions. A while back I decided on a lark to make a faction based simultaneously on fatasses and this board.
https://gofile.io/d/p5kbOn
Dunno how balanced it is, but it should at least feel somewhat flavorful. SMAC's graphics are a huge pain to work with, but I think I generally did alright (though the "monument" graphics might be a little screwy, I'm not sure how to fix them). Technically this is still a WIP, I'm not sold on the faction icon or even having BoBerry be the face of it, but eh, good enough I suppose.
Also if any of Heather's hounds are snooping around, I made certain the portrait was from one of BoBerry's set preview images, 216 specifically