The ritualized forms of retribution justice are known as Conflicts and encompass legal forms of battle between factions in the form of Duels of Assassins, Solar Wars, Trade Wars, and more. Conflicts, both positive and negative, have a Conflict Score, measuring how the conflict is leaning. Conflict Score is typically affected by Contacts spending Influence, the player completing Conflict related Missions, and by performing Orbital Operations.
Duel of Assassins
A Duel of Assassins occurs when one Faction seeks retribution justice for actual or perceived wrongs. When a Duel is declared, a death court is formed, with either side petitioning for Death Warrants. Missions involving this conflict will often involve seeking out the enemies of the Faction and either capturing or executing them. The Conflict Score will be affected by successful missions related to the Duel, Patrolling friendly worlds and Spying over enemy worlds. Successfully influencing the Conflict will gain rep with the Faction you assisted and lose rep with their enemy.
Trade Ban
A Trade Ban occurs when Factions vie for economic dominance, attempting to cut off valuable trade routes for their enemies and bleed their coffers dry. During a Trade Ban, you will lose reputation with one of the factions involved if you sell goods to an exchange controlled by their adversaries. Furthermore, if you fly under the flag of the banned Faction, you cannot sell goods in the enemy Exchanges. You cannot further lose reputation from Trade Bans with a faction that you have less than -30 reputation with. You can avoid reputation loss if you sell goods into a Black Market instead of the official exchange. The Conflict score can be affected by completing Missions.
Trade War
Trade Wars occur when the struggle for economic control spills over into violence. Both Factions encourage privateers and pirates to harass enemy merchants and blockade their worlds. During a Trade War you can sell cargo from each Faction to their own Exchanges, but selling to any other Faction will incur rep penalties, except Independents. Conflict score can be affected by Missions, Patrolling and Blockading.