There is no "neutral" faction. What I think they mean by that is the default standard races we have now. Since the titans are tied to your subfaction, if you stay "neutral" AKA don't pick a side, you won't get a Titan.

In other words, it sounds like you start as the neutral faction, and then pick a sub faction which gives you additional benefits.

Its really ridiculous that they try to push this "oh there's now three factions per race" bull crap. I only recently found out that there actually aren't even any new factions at all, but that they are simply research choices given to each race. My suspicions are that other than the titans, the loyalists and rebels wont be very different from each other. This suspicion stems from the fact that they dared to tell the said fib.

It has always been said that you start off with the standard race, then at some point, via the research you do, you become a rebel or a loyalist.  The only way to stay as a vanilla original faction is to stop researching.  Since everyone else will still be researching, you eventually will have to continue or you will be exterminated by superior forces.  So at game start, there are only 3 factions, by the end, assuming everyone has done research, there are 6 factions.

You forgot to indicate how many players in the figure you created. Anyways, the non loyal/rebel unresearched standard faction cant be considered a faction by itself if thats what you mean.

Ill be sure to check thanks.

One instance I was referring to was right on this site. Go to gameplay, then features.  Right there!  First bullet.

What would be nice is if you did not have to join any faction tech.....that would make it nine faction routes.

I really would like to be able to choose which subfaction the AI is going to play before the game starts. It would make for more customizable single player games, which would only add to the overall Sins experience if you ask me (yes, I like playing single player games a lot aswell, besides playing online).