I think in general the factions have no real impact on the game. I wish it was more of an open world pvp thing. Where if your on patrol and wearing a class item of say Fwc there were bounties to kill off dead orbit/new monarchy players. It would only be activatec if you wore a class item so if you just wanted to farm you could just wear a non faction class item and not be tagged as an enemy. At the end of the month which ever faction won, based on top number of bounties/kills, that faction would get a boost to resources, glimmer etc. Maybe it could give us a reason to patrol more and add more of a pvp element to the game.