Thank you @blaznee. The research tree needs to be redone to easily figure out what each thing is for. Last thing I want in game to do is spend 10 minutes hovering over every item to figure out what it is. Plenty of others have made the complaint so hopefully they change that but thank you for the feeback.
The minor factions and superweapons will get a toggle I hope soon. They seem to be a non issue if you're on top of your influence but, if you want to disregard it all together or level the playing field it'd be nice to just get rid of them.