Sojourn

 is one of the factions in Windward.

"When the job involves locating new caches of mineral resources, recovering vessels lost at sea or anything related to far-away travel, no other organization is better suited for the task than the Sojourn. Sojourn ships are built for speed and their weapons have fantastic accuracy (at the expense of just about everything else). Assignments handed to captains affiliated with the Sojourn tend to focus on travel and exploration, as that's what their ships are generally built for. Sojourn crews gain experience from discovering new towns and can obptain Shooner and Corvette ships at a discount."

Summary
Sojourn is the explorer faction. Sojourn players start with a Diving Suit, allowing them to salvage shipwrecks, gaining resources, experience, and potentially even items by sacrificing some stone. Sojourn also gain experience from discovering new towns for the first time. Sojourn ships have faster speed and better accuracy, as well as a special Volley ability that has a longer cooldown timer but does more damage. The downside is that their ships will not be as tough up close as those of other factions, so keeping their enemies at a distance is advised (this is where the accuracy bonus comes in handy!)

Sojourn players get a 20% discount when buying a Schooner (low level fast offensive style ship), as well as a Corvette (high level version of the same).