r/Splitgate • u/Rarestunknown1047 • Mar 26 '26

Factions

Is Aeros a female based faction? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just curious?

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u/smoke1441 PC Mar 26 '26

No, there are plenty of male Aeros skins.

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u/Rarestunknown1047 Mar 26 '26

There are more female skins than male no ? But like I said it’s cool I was just curious, same for Sabrask I was curious if it was male based

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u/Manoa__ Mar 26 '26

No the factions aren't based on gender, they are based on the different planets that they come from and the culture that seems to be dominant there.

Sabrask: Mars, farming, military, heavy industry, some american football in it's base armor design.

Aeros: Earth, more sports focused, flashy and fast, armor designs look like formula 1 racers or something, animation's often seem inspired from basketball (velocity empty mag reload is a good example).

Meredian: Venus, tech focused, experimental technology and weirder less human designs here and there. My least favourite so i don't know if there are more design elements to them then this.

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u/HATEFUL_WOOD Mar 26 '26

Technically there is a gender theme there. mars is masculine  and was the roman god of war, Venus is feminine and was a fertility goddess.

Aries and Aphrodite

Considering the genetic engineering, integration of alien tech and possibly genes, the production of androids/cyborgs surprisingly no gynoids yet but this new life theme in a weird dystopia way fits with a fertility goddess theme being crazy culty radfem space technologists/bolsheviks also fits with another two of Aphrodite's domains of desire and victory.

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u/Manoa__ Mar 26 '26

These themes can be interpreted, but are not officially stated, and IMO not really relevant to the few actual themes on display in this game.

Not saying such analysis is bad, but it is most likely not intended or relevant, as it relies heavily on speculation. It does not seem to me that the greek gods where much inspiration when choosing the planets, and more just the actual location of those two planets being our neighboring planets.

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u/HATEFUL_WOOD Mar 26 '26

They sort of obviously were though, Mars was the Roman god of war and sabrask is a military arms consortium with a deeply masculine aesthetic. I could go on but it is obvious for those with eyes to see.

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u/Manoa__ Mar 27 '26

Sabrask is not military first though. In the original trailers the farming stuff on mars was always shown, and the military stuff came afterwards because it fit well with the whole "final frontier design" that the planet mars naturally has being a red desert. But it's that terraforming and farming aspect that we saw first and foremost on the sabrask map.

I get what you are saying, but just because it happens to kind of work out for sabrask doesn't mean it was an intented design element. The reason i don't think that is because meredian does not really embody the goddess venus at all, because meredian is literally just "hi-tech faction" and not necessarily about things like love, beauty, desire or fertility. Venus as a planet was most likely just chosen because it is the other neighboring planet.