How Do I Join a Faction?

Welcome back!

You have to be invited to join a crew, crews form a faction.  Joining a crew that is allgned with a faction will give you that particular faction tag.

Right now it would be quietish, as most Europeans are at work/school, and America is waking up and eating breakfast.

Syntax or Recursion would usually be busier than Vector, or if there are people around on Vector, they're probably in Sneak!

Do a /who in area chat to see who is in the area with you.

You can have 3 characters on each server.  When you launch the game, have a look at the character screen, you will see blank slots where you can create them.