To follow dead orbit since day one and be rank 18, you must definitely be a casual and barely play the game (which is a good thing don't get me wrong, shows you have a life...lol). Anyways, I'm rank 52 with dead orbit but 77 overall rank and I have 3 Revenant shaders. I have 3 ships and of course all shaders. I'm also rank 51 in new monarchy but 81 overall and also have the ship and multiples of all shaders. I've grind a lot my friend. The only faction I really didn't care much about was FWC because in my opinion has the worst looking shaders, but I recently started grinding it just because I'm already wasting XP on the 2 other factions which I don't need nothing from them. So I started FWC and I'm rank 11 and no shader yet...lol.