i think a faction server based on empire minecraft would be awesome but instep of being in a wild place it would be in one of the towns but i a ruined state and populated with normal things for the biome its in like jungle trees in jungles.
My idea of factions is a group of people who get massive because they give new members a diamond when they join the faction and then the massive factions stomp out every other faction in existence. I hate those kinds of servers, and we already have PvP in the works.
Introducing factions could tare the Empire apart IMO. If you want to go and play in that style, go and do so on a faction style server - EMC just doesn't seem like the place for this.