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Lore-wise, there is and never was a single united bandit faction, the games just represent it very poorly.
Like in SoC Borov's gang is supposed to be just the biggest one of many others, in CS the Limansk bandits are unrelated to Yoga's gang, just like not all Loners are part of Valerian's group. And in CoP there's actually three different gangs - Sultan's, Shishak's and Jack's, but they're hardly any different from one another.
They should've made them more distinct or at least actually assigned them to different factions in the game files, like they did with the Renegades.