Any notable differences between Hegemony and Diktat now? You user Pathers as an example, but they were already fairly distinct, while I feel Hege/SD fleets are almost colorswaps sometimes.
Did I mistype? If I did, I meant to say Luddic Church, not path.
As far as the Hegemony and the Diktat, there are some differences, but they're supposed to be fairly similar, what with the Diktat being directly derived from a Hegemony task force going rogue.
The main difference now is that the Hegemony has higher-quality officers, while the Diktat has more and higher quality ships (putting that fuel money to use). In practice, Hegemony ships still have good quality because of their manufacturing. The Diktat also doesn't use carriers much, while the Hegemony uses them a bit, which also means that it may end up with a Legion in one of its fleets, where the Diktat wouldn't. There are also significant differences in what hulls and weapons are available, especially on the capital side of the spectrum.
Just for fun, a comparison of a couple of randomly generated patrols:
https://imgur.com/a/SVfXmyoNote that the Hegemony one has a high quality due to nanoforges, so actually has less d-mods despite having lower doctrine quality. The Diktat may get a nanoforge on Sindria as well; haven't gotten all that sorted yet.