I am rank frigging 10 with dead orbit and have yet to get the "random" drop for their Revenant armor shader, pretty much the best looking shader in the game. Instead of making us grind eternally for something that may or may not drop as a reward for being part of that faction, why not just let us buy them off of the faction vendor for a set amount of glimmer or crucible or vanguard points. At rank 5 we should be able to buy all of the faction shaders from that particular faction. Want to keep the grind going? Just add new shaders every so often at higher ranks.
Because, frankly, dead orbit has the best colors in the game. The rest look like the Joker's suit on crack.
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It should unlock after a while, rank 15 shader 1, rank 20 shader 2, rank 25 shader 3, rank 30 shader 4, rank 35 ship. You might get the shader/ship as a drop before, but they unlock to buy at those ranks. That's still a major grind, but at least you get it eventually.