an icepick through the keyhole

The Unofficial Government Mental Health Warning, for starters... =;o}

I haven't dared start on the FP parallel universe that's been spun off as a separate entity from DW. That is, I bought the first of the audio stories, and quickly decided "this is both too intriguing, and spread across too many volumes in too many formats, to be admitted to my regular purchasing stream right now". And that was a couple of years ago.

That said, the spun-off FP universe is all written (or at the very least "run") by "Mad Larry" (Lawrence Miles) himself, so if you want the purest version of the author's vision of what the Faction are all about, that's probably the one to go for, and it's all available from the official Norweigian Press / FP web pages. See The Faction Store.

OTOH, if you want to know how they started out, as cunning twist on a possible potential future of the Time Lords...

Er...

My fuzzy recollection is that they get mentioned here there and everywhere, and alluded to everywhere else, and only show up a few times but those times might not make much sense without all the hints and stuff. khaosworks, can you help with anything more specific than that? I believe their first mention/appearance was in "Alien Bodies", which was a fairly early BBC EDN. AFter that it's all a bit of a blur...

[GOES BACK TO LOOK AT THE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY I LINKED TO] Oh, looks see, there's a reading list! Two, in fact. =:o}