Creating a faction?

[ApoxNM]

Hi guys,

I would like to aks for some help.
To be specific, for some pointers.

If I want to take existing sectors (maybe add one or two) but create a new faction with vanilla ships,
which files will I need to change?

In general I go trough the files and try to identify how they are connected, but I am not sure how to create a completely new faction, instead of just changing sector owenrship.

Then the next question is, how do I make that faction expand and have wars?

I would very much appreciate some basic guidelines from some of you, who have already done so.

Thanks very much.

[Tassekaffe]

just a thought,
look in the dlc_pirate folder for example.its new factions wage wars and trade,so the data is all there,just need to adapt it for your own mod.... just
but what ever you do,don´t use a save you wanna keep for testing...