[[Suggestion] New Faction: Space Pirates]

Now I don’t mean cartoonish sailors who talk like "YARR, AVAST YE MATEYS HOIST THE MAIN SAIL" and have parrots and frilly clothes. No, I mean space bandits, thieves and murderers.

These space pirates would often be found having forcefully boarded other spaceships,

This gives us an opportunity to see friendly space stations, and these missions would usually be Exterminate.

You know how Lotus will sometimes change your objective? Pirates will change your mission too. Every so often, some unlucky bunch of pirates will get the dim-witted idea to try to take over a ship with YOU onboard, in the middle of your mission.

Your objective would usually stay the same when this happens, but it would certainly spice things up to have pirates shooting up the place in a hectic 3-way fight

Also there would be missions where you board the pirate’s ships directly, which would be rusty, scrappy metal ships. These levels could have most of the standard mission types.

These pirates would use mostly light armor, sometimes heavy, and would possibly have a few more melee units than your typical enemy group. They would come with their own new weapons too. Some of which you could buy in the store or craft. I’m still not sure what exact types of weapons they should use, but they definitely need to have some of their own weapons, though others could obviously be stolen.

Yeah, I get you. How about they ambush us when we're on our way to do missions.

Then, we fight by ourselves or using the ships!!! (the intro cutscene one.)

[Game Becoming To Much Of A "pay To Win" Type Game.]

Well, the existence of platinums already made it a Pay-To-Win game.
I'm okay with using plats to buy cosmetic items (colour/avatar) . But they should give opportunities in alerts or competitions/lucky draws for us to earn plats.