[quote=@TehAlphaGamer]


One way of doing that could be setting these factions as they reach or pull out from Almata of they have stakes in it. It gives the idea that people are trying to escape the carnage or try and take the spoils of war for themselves to take the empire.
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So, similar to how Germany was carved up at the end of WW2? Forming spheres of influence on the remains of the imperial territories? In that case i'd say a map would be pretty handy to have, even if just a rough approximation.