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If you want better Commissions get Lukas01's new Privateering mod. Question of Loyalty is just broken - for starters, if you commission with a faction before colonizing then you flat out aren't allowed to colonize until you rank up. When you DO rank up, you're limited to three colonies max.

If you colonize before commission, your commissioned faction takes your colonies away and then grants you governorship, but only for one or two of them. Ranking up you can buy back the right to a third colony, but your faction keeps the rest.

In exchange for this sacrifice you get, drumroll please..... a massive paycut to commission wages, an option to tell patrols of your commissioned faction who want to cargo scan you to leave you alone without spending a story point and the ability to ask for 1000 free fuel every few years. Hooray.

Get Privateering. More rewards for commissioning but you get to keep your colonies.