Received a request via email about removing factions from the list. It seems to work okay, so I’ll give it a wider audience. It’s basically the same as the “(group name)” hex edit, using an ini file to set the names rather than hacking common.dll directly. Story factions (as they are known in the code) seem to handle empathy a little differently, so it might not quite work right if you only want to remove it from the list.
Edit: Actually, I think all it’s doing is ignoring the story factions when determining affiliations.