I'm surprised Njord (assuming you're talking about him) gave you so much trouble, he didn't seem like a very strong adversary. We got rid of him in a week...
For the most part, Redshift factions have played little to no part in developing the current faction politics, so including them would be pointless.
Njord didn't give me much problems in redshift, In fact we never really fought.
As for redshift my point is the whole point of this post is to not forget factions, Why call it a history of factions if you don't include factions.
Saying they didn't play much role in developing current faction politics is arrogant just plain arrogant. Yes they didn't play much role but that is like saying oh because they where never involved on EE they are not a real faction.
I was talking about Black knights and Lateo industries blade falcon and i forget one ahh united trade alliance and much more.
All of those factions had their own ships ranks and members. They had allies and foes and fought battles and traded but unlike NFD they didn't have a thread, And that shouldn't be the sole reason we leave these guys out.
We should try our best to get as many factions as possible on the doc so they are not forgotten. (Not the one man factions that'd be pointless)
Another idea is to make another list a "server" list and list these types of factions under that so we don't forget the servers who have been and gone and at the same time atleast list some factions who have been and gone.