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Originally Posted by RES-01 Perses Gundam
Translating those Japanese words that I understand: 
The old man with the cigar:
-Something about his profile about an "old nation". Also something about "pirates". I think the profile also says that he's "straightforward and frank"? |
A third faction seems highly likely seeing as we've already seen friction within the Federation forces in Episode Two. I'd be willing to bet a lot of money, since this is Gundam, that the head honchos of the Federation are out-to-touch old men who will not take the fact that Grodek pirated their next-generation battleship from their handpicked henchmen. The mothership + Gundam almost always is its own faction, even if it is fighting alongside the Feddies or whatever other version of them you look at in previous Gundams.
So, spending some time with some pirates doesn't seem unlikely.