As of year 5500, there are 6 large salvager factions who rule Purgamentum: the Steel Teeth, the Opal Hawks, Fate's Razor, Thor's Hammer, the Reaper's Scythe, and the Spirit Eagles.

Each of these factions is run by a warlord.

These factions are almost always at war with one another over territory and new scrap shipment claims.

While the main export from Purgamentum is reclaimed materials, the lack of an organized government has made it a hub for criminals for sale of illegal products such as weapons, drugs, slaves, and stolen goods.

Slave trade and labor is common within the Purgamentum factions, typically abducting the tribal peoples of Rymeth and forcing them to work in scrap foundries or to strip wiring from wrecks and discarded electronics.

The Spirit eagles is the only faction that does not engage in slave trade, and most people judge it to be the most civilized of the factions.

Purgamentum's has silica rich powdery soil, with many rocks and meteor impact craters.

The moon has little tectonic activity.

Junk litters the area nearest the equator of the moon, while the poles remain mostly untouched.

the land at the equator is known as "the Junkyard".

While some of the best salvage is in the Junkyard, leaking nuclear waste containers make the area extremely dangerous. However, this does not stop salvage factions from fighting over it.

The Steel Teeth, Opal Hawks, and Spirit Eagles control turf in the northern hemisphere of the moon, and Fate's Razor, Thor's Hammer, and the Reaper's Scythe control turf in the south. the land between salvager camps and colonies is known as No Man's Land.

Purgamentum lacks an atmosphere, but after oxygen synthesis from soil was discovered and widely accessible, this was no issue for the moon's inhabitants.

Average temperature on Purgamentum is 42 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, and drops to -10 degrees in the "winter", when it moves behind talcent's shadow.

Each day is 6.72 hours.

The warlord of Thor's Hammer calls himself "Thor". His appearance is strikingly similar to a wanted serial killer from Roxrun, Oteshknir. No one knows his real name, as anyone who asks him is brutally killed on the spot.

Thor's Hammer specializes in the salvaging and reclamation of thorium waste from Oteshknir's nuclear reactors. While Oteshknirian energy companies find it too costly and inefficient to reclaim and reuse the waste, the salvagers use it to supply nuclear materials to black market buyers, and to fuel their makeshift nuclear reactors.

The territory of Thor's Hammer borders the dump zone of Anethan Enterprises, the massive multiplanitary coorperation based in Oteshknir. On top of thorium waste, they often find shipments of old or broken foundry equipment, office supplies, and discarded experimental tech.

Steel Teeth's warlord is a Tallian named Sh'yrah. He has decorative and intricate etchings carved into his exoskeleton, with a long strings of tally marks across his shoulders, one for every man he has killed. Not much is known about him.

The Steel Teeth faction specializes in steel reclamation.

Steel Teeth's territory is within a dump zone used by many companies from Tallum. With Tallum being a moon with extremely high iron content, much of their wasted materials are metal.

The warlord of the Reaper's scythe is a man named John Smith. The son of a sonnelian man and Oteshknirian woman, he was given an average sonnelian name. A once powerful CEO of an Anethan Enterprises subsidiary, he was arrested on fraud charges and fled the moon to purgamentum after paying bail, where he used his business and negotiating knowhow to make his way to the top of one of the six factions.

The Reaper's Scythe faction specializes in engine salvaging from both ground and spacecraft.

Anyone on Purgamentum who needs vehicle repair or from offworld who are looking to buy illegal vehicle mods buy from the Reaper's scythe.

The near monopoly this faction has on transportation makes them extremely powerful in the criminal underworld.

The Opal Hawks specialize in robotics and electronics repair.

The Opal Hawk's warlord is thought to be Vandectelian, although he never removes his helmet which masks his face. On top of that, no one has ever seen a vandectelian, making it possible he could be an entirely unknown species not even from trallena. He goes by the name Yloth

Yloth kills anyone who asks about his species or origin on the spot.

While most factions use slave labor, the Opal Hawks are notorious for their excessive use of slaves, and slave abductions from less developed Talcent worlds, notably Rymeth.

Most Pronguaska on Purgamentum are either slaves of the Opal Hawks, or escaped slaves.

Fate's Razor specializes in the salvaging of basic materials and constructing airtight buildings and facilities on Purgamentum.

Fate's Razor's warlord is an Oteshknirian named Rythen Ithnel. The only warlord with no criminal past before purgamentum, Ithnel was the sole survivor of an Oteshknirian freight ship whose engines lost power near Purgamentum and crashed on the surface, and built a faction over the decades he was stranded here.

The Spirit Eagles is a faction consisting of mostly white-collar criminals evading the police from whatever world they are from.

The Spirit Eagles warlord is a number of hijacked Lanthorian Manager robots that call themselves "CEO". How many there are is not known.

CEO keeps robots of itself spread across Spirit Eagles territory to keep order with members, and connect with them. it is always fairly easy to find a CEO when help is needed from faction leadership.

The Spirit Eagles rarely scavenge for themselves, instead using their wealth to contract mercenaries or freelance scavengers to do their work for them. Due to this, the Spirit Eagles have somewhat flourished and have formed some semblance of a society on the junk planet.

Spirit Eagles settlements typically have a few multi-story buildings where trading posts are established, which bolsters their economy. These trading posts commonly sell smuggled goods, illegal substances, stolen or scrapped weaponry, among other things.

The Spirit Eagles capital, "Fortitude" is located in a large crater in the northern hemisphere of the moon. It is well-developed and closely resembles a city on other planets. The capitol Building is a fortress containing the factions most valuable possessions, and is well guarded to prevent intrusion.