Factions and organizations · first: SO E1
United Free Trade Planets
In the first episode Margaret says she works for UFTP, the United Free Trade Planets, as an executive SOE1·01:07:17. Brennan says UFTP owns the Armstrong Roid Removers and a tremendous number of planets SOE1·01:11:07 SOE1·01:13:11. He says the parent company of United Free Trade Planets is Crown and Scepter, founded by the family of the original dread dictator of the Incorporated Elysian Republic SOE1·01:17:52.
United Free Trade Planets is a corporation that owns planets, and Brennan says it is a subsidiary of Crown and Scepter Limited SOE1·01:13:11 SOE6·01:19:20. In the second episode Brennan says more than half the population of Madrugada Station works for it and that the moon's monarchy was bought by UFTP some 40 or 50 cycles back SOE2·01:15:41 SOE2·01:47:21. In the fourth episode Brennan says the people in raspberry metallic suits are UFTP's private security, kill switches rather than soldiers SOE4·01:48:08 SOE4·01:48:19.
In the fifth episode Brennan says UFTP is coming after Margaret's bank accounts to freeze her out SOE5·00:42:22. In the tenth episode he says Margaret is secretly being hunted SOE10·00:45:15, and a later recap says UFTP froze her account and terminated her SOE11·00:05:29. In the twelfth episode Zortch says his home world is being hollowed out by UFTP for lithium SOE12·01:10:22.
In the fifteenth episode King Prilbus tells Margaret that UFTP is not a front for Crown and Scepter and claims it has been "ours" for some time, meaning the cerebro-slug houses SOE15·00:43:50. Lucienne Rex says she talked to the higher ups, who seemed fine with hollowing out Rubian V, and that UFTP is trying to create an artificial lithium shortage SOE15·01:06:00. Brennan's recap says UFTP was the only faction uninterested in capturing Gnosis because it stands to make more money if Gnosis dies SOE16·00:01:28. In the seventeenth episode a squadron of UFTP fighters around a central command ship waits near the Fang of Frangus, and Damien Factor asks for Margaret and demands the surrender of the Princeps Zortch SOE17·00:01:54 SOE17·00:13:08. In the last battle the UFTP flagship surrenders unconditionally SOE18·02:22:35.
By episode
SO E1: Welcome to the Spacin' Life, Buddy
- UFTP (United Free Trade Planets) — Margaret's employer; owns planets; "founded Crown and Scepter, which is the parent company of United Free Trade Planets." — 01:17:52
SO E2: Rolling Up The Hill
- UFTP (United Free Trade Planets) — runs Madrugada Station: "More than half the population here works for United Free Trade Planets" — 01:15:41; the moon's monarchy "was bought by UFTP you know, maybe 40 or 50 cycles back" — 01:47:21
SO E3: Wrecked on Rec 97
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP) — Margaret's employer; its pass is scanned by the RecPols — 01:37:26
SO E4: Every Day is Our Wurst Day
SO E5: All In the Hot Exit
SO E6: On the Run In the Martini Nebula
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP) — subsidiary of Crown and Scepter Limited — 01:19:20; "UFTP is the kind of company that's like, yeah, we're hollowing out a moon." — 00:50:51
SO E10: It's a Griivarr World After All
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP) — secretly hunting Margaret — 00:45:15
SO E11: Flee From Fantanimalland
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP) — froze Margaret's account and terminated her (recap) — 00:05:29
SO E12: Go Big or Go Home
SO E13: Battle of the Brands
SO E14: The House Always Wins
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP), Amercadian Space Brigade — hailed about the "clobbered" interns — 00:52:50
SO E15: Face to Face
SO E16: Jailbreak!
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP) — "A wholly owned subsidiary of Crown and Scepter Ltd." (recap) — 00:01:00; shock troops, guards, a Vercadian protector, workers; the Wurst is detained with mods in progress
SO E17: The Luckless, the Abandoned, and the Forsaked (Part 1)
- United Free Trade Planets (UFTP) — squadron of fighters around a central command ship; Damien Factor asks for Margaret Encino and demands the surrender of Princeps Zortch — 00:01:54, 00:13:08
SO E18: The Luckless, the Abandoned, and the Forsaked (Part 2)
- UFTP — command ship crippled by psychic repulse (speed zero, comms lost, engineering down); fighters five and four destroyed, the rest still flying ("none of the UFTP fighters go down" in one round); troopers on the Fang killed; then unconditional surrender: "with unconditional surrender" — 00:34:36, 02:22:35