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Purity was trying to get out from under the Empire Eighty-Eight's shadow, but she was hampered by Max making sure she didn't move to another city (because he wanted her back in the Empire).If I recall correctly, Purity had been "out" for years already but just was too stupid to change her usual patterns so nobody even noticed. Night and Fog were not even PART of the Empire anyway, since they were Gesselshaft capes based in New York before they were loaned to the Empire during canon. And Crusader was still a member of the Empire despite Purity NOT being so for that long.
As for the Empire itself (bolding is mine):
Hive 5.4 said:Kaiser was different. He was one of the better known American villains with a white supremacist agenda, and people sharing his ideals were either recruited from other states or they came to him. Most didn't stay with him for too long, for whatever reason, but it still made him the Brockton Bay resident with the most raw parahuman muscle at his beck and call.
More to the point, it took less friction to break them apart, for that very same reason. Things that non-capes would laugh off were exacerbated.So, the same reason that many groups tend to stick together. Money and self-interest. This has nothing to do with capes vs. non-capes, but rather just basic human behavior. People stick together because they're friends or family, because they have a common enemy, because of a strongman holding them together, because of money, because of ideology, or a hundred other reasons. Whether they're capes or not. We see a pretty wide cross section of that in canon, which is good because it mirrors reality. The cape groups were not much different than non-cape groups except that when they break apart it may be more violent or dramatic, fueled by the space-worms.
I was counting from the beginning of canon, before Taylor joined. Note that Coil was deliberately holding the group together, dangling their wants and needs over their heads. If he'd just cut them loose one fine day and walked away, and there wasn't the canonical crisis happening, the gang would've fractured before too long. Lisa was too annoying, Regent was also too annoying, and Rachel was too prickly.Six? Skitter, Tattletale, Grue, Regent, Bitch, Imp. And yes, almost any group will have arguments. I don't think that superpowered groups break down any more or faster than non-superpowered groups. My group of friends has people come and go as the years go by just like any other group, and we DON'T have powers (that I know of). It happens. There's just a higher chance of powered conflict when powered groups break up, whether that take the form of a physical fight or Thinker melodrama.