We're not looking for more Imperial factions; we don't need more Imperial factions, and we don't want more Imperial factions.. We have no intention of combining forces to form a playable faction, the only instances where we combine forces is to be able to represent different groups that we otherwise couldn't, and only then when non-playable (ie for smaller Imperial groups), or when a smaller group would have reasonably held ties to a larger local group (Elrood and Eriadu, Antemeridian and Maldrood). To combine them into a separate Imperial group for the sake of being playable, especially those two, really makes no sense. If we wanted more factions, we could make them their own factions but, especially in the case of Ciutric, they don't make sense as their own groups, especially early on. They're pretty far apart, on opposite ends of the core, and were doing completely separate things at different times. Right after Endor, the Hegemony remained loyal to the Ruling Council because Sate Pestage was its direct ruler as well as the de facto leader of the Empire, and after murdering Pestage, Krennal still remained loyal to or at least took orders from both Carvin and Isard. Harrsk was effectively independent but at least kept some ties with the Ruling Council, Pestage and Isard, both diplomatic and military, though by the time of Isard, around the loss of Coruscant, he was dealing with them as more of a separate state instead of acting like they were all one big happy family. He was then absent from Thrawn's Confederation, which many other Warlord groups joined (including both the Ciutric Hegemony and Pentastar Alignment). You can most reasonably include them from the start as component parts of the Remnant, with Zero Command and Ciutric
really breaking away around the fall of Coruscant and the end of the Thrawn Campaign, and that's how we treat it in the mod. The logic that they should be their own separate faction together instead of part of the Remnant because they were both working togetherr doesn't really make sense in that each was only "working together" in that they both supported the Ruling Council longer than other independent groups did.
Ciutric's trajectory was basically Empire -> Semi-autonomous bit of the Empire -> Empire (part of Thrawn's Confederation) -> Independent -> Crushed by New Republic.
Basically, after Thrawn's Confederation broke up, the first thing the New Republic did was dismantle Ciutric. The news post for this should be going up tonight, but for the time that it was its own thing, we have a GC called Isard's Revenge where the Empire's territory in that GC is just the Ciutric Hegemony.
Just for demonstration, this is what a combined "Zero Hegemony" would look like (Zero Command in Yellow, Ciutric in Green, with pretty generous representation of their territory):
As for Wraith squadron, they will be in the mod.
