Fear not, my brothers and sisters. I have studied each empire extensively, both in their natural habitats and in the safety of their sanctuaries. Below are the conclusions of my scientific study, double fact checked by no less than 17 independent researchers.
TR
Fall in line soldier, you do what your commander tells you. Look sharp in your goggles and padded helmet; keep those boots clean! These guys follow the rules. Some people might call them lemmings of order, but I prefer to call this discipline. Sure, every now and then the lead lemming is going to run your entire group off the cliff to a spectacular death, but your boots will be clean and those pants WILL be pressed. In the field, they attack with ordered determination following the lead of their respective commanders. Their discipline can be easily seen when they are footzerging from a tower to bring their righteous wrath upon the enemy base. In fact, discipline is so strong, every TR soldier has an MCG and striker loadout in his Rexo armor, striking fear into any enemy that has his sound turned up. The cacophony of BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEPs have been known to deafen unprepared defenders to the point that the defenders are forced to massacre the footzerg in grim silence after turning in game sounds off.
Luckily, the TR commanders gave their troops lots of bullets and guns that shoot lots of bullets. This is the most effective way to make the enemy empire hide in a base and have tea while waiting for Church Spray and Pray to conclude services. In their time away from battle, TR soldiers shine their armor, shine their boots, and wait for orders while keeping conversation to a minimum.
NC
They're rebels with a cause. The cause is to be rebellious against everyone else's cause. Sometimes they rebel against their own rebellious cause. NC Commanders are often heard asking "What the **** are you guys doing?" to which his soldiers respond "We ain't gotta listen to you!". They're the honey badgers of Planetside, they don't give a shit. Oh, did I just shoot that friendly with my vanguard? I don't give a shit, you ain't my boss. Get owned by my big gun.
The NC are so obsessed with big guns that they failed to realize that training soldiers in how to hit targets with big guns was an important aspect of battle. When command discovered this, they did the next best thing - make a big suit of armor with a really big gun and a shield to protect the soldier while he spammed pellets to every corner of the base. Eventually, something will be hit. Friend or foe, it doesn't matter because they don't give a shit. In fact, they went a step further and put the biggest ass gun on top of the walking retardmobile (BFR) and made sure it was easy to aim and easy to kill with. To date, the biggest target killed by the NC was balance.
Everything's easy when you don't give a shit. And you have shields.
VS
Lasers. Flying suits of armor. Hovering shit. It doesn't get much better than this. You even got a gun that shot giant disco balls of death. These balls of death apparently were very angry when they would hit an enemy because it would lash out and own a couple more for good measure. The NC and TR couldn't handle the VS balls, so they inserted loyalists into the VS scientific ranks whose sole mission was to make the balls of the VS less angry and lashful. It took years and years of covert ball taming for the VS balls to be pacified, but the mission was accomplished. A negative side effect was that the balls discharged much quicker, which we can attribute to the years of experience honing the TR and NC ball taming technique. During this period, the TR developed their fashionable goggles. The NC, however, appeared content to simply remove their helmets.
When the VS aren't delivering their disco balls to the faces of TR and NC, they spend their free time traveling the different worlds (or continents, if you must). They play games such as Destroy the Generator and Camp the Airpad. Spawn in Maxsuits was a favorite of some outfits. The VS are a fickle group, however. Their tactics often change depending on what Interlink shows up as bright and shiny, so they may often disappear from an offensive front when the Purple warning light goes off.
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