Anouncement: I will be placing the first IC post in this thread on Sunday August 3rd.
After that, the two day period mentioned in the rules will start.

At the end of that two day period, anyone that has claimed a faction in the interest check but has not yet posted in the actual game thread (IC and/or OOC) will forfeit their claim and I wil open those factions again for other potential players. It will still be possible for those players to rejoin and claim their faction provided that it has not been claimed by anyone else.

(At the time of writing this post, Lone Wanderer (The Alliance of Nations) and Hyperdrive (the Zox Empire) have already posted and are therefore 'safe')