((The two definitions fitting of the word faction in our current frame of mind...))Faction:
1. A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.
2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
You choose to be a neutral and wish to remain out of the conflict, and honestly I had the same hopes as well. However events have lead us to a state where we are being persecuted by a group of people. So we can either be true pacifist and take the punches, the abuse, sit unresponding while we are forced into choosing a side, or we can make our aggressor take their fight back where it belongs.
I fight for my right to remain a neutral, I don't expect everyone to pick up a weapon and join that fight... but you should realise that the efforts we are making really are to work for peace and put us back into a position of being neutral again.
(( While the definition seems not to work it does fit what Neutrals are... in both definitions...
If we were truly unaffiliated and fell under one banner the title 'Neutral' then we wouldn't have Orgs., wouldn't be allowed into PvP or use of Towers... these are thing a faction would recieve... Neutrals are to be side-line sitters, observers taking no action in either side of the conflict. However with these abilities we have choices as Neutrals: be faction bias supporting either Omni or Clan or try to support ourselves as our own seperate group of people... becuase we have these choices and options while remaining 'Neutrals' this makes us a faction, a thrid party, a thrid group of people... the word for us may be 'Neutrals' but that by no means applies to the definition to our ability to defend ourselves, but simply our feelings to the Omni/Clan war.
I don't choose to support either side in their conflict, I want us to be a free group of people. I also wouldn't mind if FC nerfed our faction abilities and made us the real 'neutrals' we were meant to be.))