The Nomads consist of three enormous ships whose inhabitants, discontented with a society controlled by huge macroeconomic blocks and by A.I., have separated themselves from it and roam through space, trading from system to system. The three ships are the Tunguska, which is dedicated to the traffic and storage of information, Corregidor, a former prison ship, offers skilled labour at a good price and the Bakunin trades in all that is exotic and illegal in whatever area, from fashion to nano-engineering. The Nomads joined the Axis of Empires to rival the Tau Empire and later the Alliance of Nations when the Axis Civil War broke out then later joined the Imperialists in the Second War.