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Factions are teams in Ingress. The two factions are the EnlightenedEnlightened Logo and Resistance Resistance Logo, who constantly fight each other for control over Portals and MU.

Faction Change

See also: Recurse

Faction Change (FC) is an act of changing one's present faction to the opposite side.

There are two ways to change one's faction:

  • When an agent reaches Level 16 (40M AP), they can request Recursion, with the possibility to change factions.
  • Agents can also request a Faction Change (FC) by email from Niantic; requests may not be approved if there is no sufficient justification. Unlike Recurse, all agent's owned items and entities will be destroyed, and their inventory is cleared; the agent will start again as L1full with 0 AP.[1] However, Agent's username, stats and badges remain.[2] Even though Niantic officially states that only one FC is allowed per player, there have been rare exceptions to this rule.

Factions

There are two factions with contrary beliefs about Exotic Matter (XM), its intended and possible applications and about the Shapers and their motives that are fighting over the control of Portals as the primary source of Exotic Matter (XM) and Mind Units (MU) in form of Control Fields:

The EnlightenedEnlightened Logo: The Enlightened seek harness the power of Exotic Matter to evolve mankind to a higher level.

The Resistance Resistance Logo: The Resistance seek to battle the forces that are attempting to use Exotic Matter to enslave humanity.

The EnlightenedEnlightened Logo

(short: ENL, Agents colloquially also known as frogs), represented green within the scanner were founded by Roland Jarvis, a sculptor and former member of the Niantic Project. The Template:Enlightenment favour progess and believe that the Exotic Matter (XM) could shape the future of humanity and allow it to reach its full potential.[3] They want to embrace the new possibilities that come with the Exotic Matter (XM) and think that they should be made available for everyone along with all knowledge. In their mind Exotic Matter (XM) is the path to epiphany, elevation and enlightenment.[4] While the Resistance Resistance Logo is convinced the Shapers are here for their own purposes and want to protect humanity from the Shaper influence, the EnlightenedEnlightened Logo believe that the Shapers have existed since the beginning of mankind and are the reason for mankind's progress from the Stone age into the modern era and that the Shapers are trying to help humanity evolve.


The Resistance Resistance Logo

(short: RES, Agents colloquially also known as smurfs), represented blue within the scanner are lead by ADA (full name: A Detection Algorithm), an artificial intelligence developed by Niantic Project researchers to assist in their research of Exotic Matter (XM) but which became self-aware after being exposed to the latter. The Resistance Resistance Logo favours stability and believes that the Exotic Matter (XM) is dangerous and should be contained[3] along with all knowledge. They are at best sceptical about the new possibilities that come with the Exotic Matter (XM). In their mind Exotic Matter (XM) is part of a hostile takeover of the mind and they are the only thing standing in the way.[4] While the EnlightenedEnlightened Logo are convinced that the Shapers have existed since the beginning of mankind and are the reason for mankind's progress from the Stone age into the modern era and that the Shapers are trying to help humanity evolve, the Resistance Resistance Logo believes the Shapers are here for their own purposes and want to protect humanity from the Shaper influence.

Overall the EnlightenedEnlightened Logo seek to use Exotic Matter (XM) to progress mankind along its evolutionary path through art, music, science, and education whereas the Resistance Resistance Logo aims to keep Exotic Matter (XM) in lockdown and believe it should be studied to hopefully be utilised to help evolve mankind on its own terms, preventing the Shapers from fulfilling any unknown ulterior motives they may have.

Due to the difference in perspective over the Shapers and their motives, and the appropriate utilisation of Exotic Matter (XM), the Resistance Resistance Logo and the EnlightenedEnlightened Logo exist in a perpetual state of conflict on Earth.

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