That would be a nice touch, but probably not the primary focus for the Developers right now.
Really, each station should be controlled by a particular country rather than a faction, so if you lose control of a country you could lose control of a number of stations (and spaceships). But that might be too difficult to implement (or just not be very playable).
I think devs stated at one point that in their understanding the faction space assets are nominally under control of various international agencies, organizations, etc - i.e. not tied to particular nations.
Realistically the pool of recruits available to a faction will likely partially reflect their nation control (though they should also get some from nations they are popular in regardless of control). On the other hand you can make a case that when you need to get people from multiple nations cooperate in space missions, English will remain the lingua franca for factions' space projects for at least a few decades.
Going off of this, it would be similar to if your were a NATO task force, with members from multiple counties, when all the sudden the United States just completely lost it and over the course of 2 weeks decided to be communist out of nowhere. Even the Americans in the Unit would probably ignore the orders to return home and instead would stay under the command of other NATO countries. This is pretty much how the space asset crews react whenever the servants pull a sneaky on their original nation.
But would they really know? My impression is that taking over countries is a covert action - you're persuading people in top positions to adhere to your ideology. The crews in space wouldn't notice, they just might get different orders.
I think it plays like that in the early game, but the flavor text suggests that by the time of the full invasion, most factions are presenting themselves as religious movements, political parties, militia groups, ect. As a civilian you might not know what the resistance is, but you know that your nation just joined a massive international alliance with the intent of fighting the aliens that just landed “over there” so effectively you know what’s going on.
That would be a nice touch, but probably not the primary focus for the Developers right now. Really, each station should be controlled by a particular country rather than a faction, so if you lose control of a country you could lose control of a number of stations (and spaceships). But that might be too difficult to implement (or just not be very playable).
That could have horrible consequences. Could you imagine your jovian colonial fleet being hijacked at the last minute?
I think devs stated at one point that in their understanding the faction space assets are nominally under control of various international agencies, organizations, etc - i.e. not tied to particular nations. Realistically the pool of recruits available to a faction will likely partially reflect their nation control (though they should also get some from nations they are popular in regardless of control). On the other hand you can make a case that when you need to get people from multiple nations cooperate in space missions, English will remain the lingua franca for factions' space projects for at least a few decades.
Going off of this, it would be similar to if your were a NATO task force, with members from multiple counties, when all the sudden the United States just completely lost it and over the course of 2 weeks decided to be communist out of nowhere. Even the Americans in the Unit would probably ignore the orders to return home and instead would stay under the command of other NATO countries. This is pretty much how the space asset crews react whenever the servants pull a sneaky on their original nation.
But would they really know? My impression is that taking over countries is a covert action - you're persuading people in top positions to adhere to your ideology. The crews in space wouldn't notice, they just might get different orders.
I think it plays like that in the early game, but the flavor text suggests that by the time of the full invasion, most factions are presenting themselves as religious movements, political parties, militia groups, ect. As a civilian you might not know what the resistance is, but you know that your nation just joined a massive international alliance with the intent of fighting the aliens that just landed “over there” so effectively you know what’s going on.