Right so i noticed some new people crate factions but there's a few problems, I'm only going to point out the main things to look out for but this can defiantly be expanded on
A: Ship's
To start off your faction of course you NEED ship's, you should at least have small strike crafts (Fighter's, Bomber's, Gun ship's, or Interceptors) Escort ships (Frigate, and/or Corvettes,) and a War ship (Destroyers, Cruisers, Maybe a Battle ship)
To fix this its quite simple, find a general design style you like and try to imp implement that into all of your ships, just don't do wall's or square ships cause those are boring as hell and are a sing of laziness. But you don't have to have all your ships fallow one design style, you can easily have them fallow a paint style.
As long as you do that you should be fine. Just no mater what DO NOT STEAL that gose for both player made and in-game built because A: you a ass hole if you grab some random persons ship and use it at your own (also is technically illegal due to copyright laws) and B: you will be hated by the building communities. This also goes for editing them. If you have been given permission to use a ship and that person openly says it is fine, This also goes for asking people to make ships for you, when you make ships yourself you are putting your artistic style into it showing that it is unique to your faction
B: Lore
You of course need some sort of lore this is just as if not more important then the ships (but you still NEED ships) Your lore is what gives your faction reasons, rather that be to make peace or war. It will also determine who your friends and enemy are, how you go about different RP scenario's, and of course you Faction's Name
To fix this well simple, you can go for the generic " After X years we have finally created FTL drives" or the repetitive "After Rebelling bla bla bla bla" or you can come up with something original just have fun with it but not too much cause that may lead to being OP and nobody wants that
C: Faction Name
This is a issue i have noticed specifically with @MoonCommander @ShadowCrafter
with @MoonCommander Faction the "The Galactic Force" it's a very bland name and with there being no writen lore yet it would suggest that there are a police or militerazied police force withing a pr-existing faction, that my be the case but once again there missing the two most important things
with @ShadowCrafter the "The Federation of United Systems" its a bit confusing cause a Federation is
"a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs." but he has United in the name indicating that these systems have united under one ruler.
To fix this naming issue you first need to understand your lore that you set up for your faction.
If you have a more Democratic faction words like Republic, Democratic, etc. If you have something like a group of organizations, companies, peoples names like Conglomerate, Union, Syndicate, etc. If your faction is a Dictatorship names like Empire, Imperium, Monarchy would be good. But those are common and overused, and depending on your faction you can go into more depth for example if you faction is focused on Technologies names like Technocratic. If your faction is Spiritualist names like, Kingdoms, Enlightend, Holy. For a Hive mind or Machine race words like, Assembly.
Long story short, Be creative, hell search up things like "Other names for Federation" and go from there, also make sure you understand what that word implies other then saying yea Empire of the Dead sounds cool but your a democracy. Also you should always come up with original names i really shouldent have to say this but i guess thats a new issue.