To early to say TBH. Honestly I've been thinking it will be closer to SB/EvE where people who arent your friends or NAPed will probably all be trying to kill you, after all its a game for PvPers. But who knows.

It just depends on how the community evolves, and if they do end up going with a Rep system, in which case there may be a meaningfull Faction-based community so to speak.

We'll find out in beta I presume, which is when the RoE for
release will be first developed.