I should probably also mention this but the Center like any other prison is not a nice place, it's not like it's Metas Vs the guards. It's a lot more like Meta Vs Meta with the guards sometimes as an influencing factor. Bearing that in mind if you want to survive in the prison you almost [i]need[/i] a faction. Aside from differences of action and operation the factions essentially sort of formed out of a need to survive. The members protect each other from other faction or just random people looking to start something or steal whatever you might have. If you don't have a faction then you're either dead, or in serious peril. You have to be strong and clever to survive without a faction, you need to always be thinking one step ahead of anyone that might want to hurt you.

Knowing all that I'm going to say now that my character Gloria [i]is[/i] one of the few survivor factionless. I realize that everyone would like to be the tough badass character that can survive no matter what and if you choose to be factionless I won't say anything about it. Just try to be realistic, without a faction someone could shiv you over your morning meal and it would really be a fifty fifty whether the guards would care. Also know that Gloria hasn't gotten away with being factionless unscathed. She's got plenty of battle scars.