Generally, it is recommended that a pirate to sabotage his/her nation faction in order to be an equal-opportunity pirate. This has adverse effects, in that said pirate is from that point unable to dock at their own nation's stations, and therefore unable to access nation-specific items or complete certain missions.

Now, if that same pirate were unaligned, he/she could work to raise their rating with each nation, while retaining the ability to pirate/attack members of all 3 nations. This is not a gripe, just a respectful suggestion...

The whole Friendly Fire thing is changing now, so this isn't really a problem for much longer.

I do agree, however, that one should have the possibility of becoming unaligned, or at least aligned with one of the lesser factions. Like Corvus Prime.

It is possible already for a guide or dev to make people unaligned. As I post, momerath is unaligned on the active player page.

MISSION TREE

Well said taker and something we are all hoping comes soon as opposed to Soon(tm) :)