Welcome to Discovery! Great to see someone who'll actually introduce their faction and be willing to work with our long-standing and pre-existing RP for once... Now, I know this is an overly-long post, but please bear with me. It does contain helpful tips, and one repeated and extremely useful link.
Role play is vital! I can't stress enough how important it is. I don't care about your PvP skill; What matters is your role play. Even if you're so good that a single one of you can fight the top 127 players all at once and win, you won't get anywhere if you can't role play. I would rather have a good role player than someone who is unbeatable in PvP, personally. Now, I can't speak for anyone else, but if you don't RP, you'll gain none of my respect what-so-ever.
You should most certainly read This. It is a well-written set of helpful tips for rookies, and, sorry, but that's what you are now on Discovery. Why? Well, I'll quote the first part of that link.
Quote:*** You may have been playing Freelancer since the first day the game hit the shelves; you may have won every Freelancer Tournament that has ever been held; you may have played 10,000 hours in single-player, and 2.5 gazillion hours on every other Freelancer server that has ever been online; you may be able to blow up every single ship that you come across due to your superior tactical skills; BUT your first day on the Discovery server and forum is your FIRST day. No one here cares what you did or didn't do elsewhere, this community only cares about the common sense, maturity, and skills that you display HERE. If you want respect, then you are going to have to earn it just like everyone else here did: by playing the game on THIS server and using THIS forum. Whatever you did before you got here isn't worth 2 credits to anyone here. You will have the reputation here that you EARN here, just like the rest of us.
Now the good part. You've done something people rarely do, something that puts you far ahead of other imported factions, something that makes you unique and better. You seem to be willing to conform to the server RP, and you're asking the community's opinion first, and THAT makes all the difference in the world.
Now, I have a few pieces of advice for you, though most of them are covered by Xoria's excellent thread, which you really should read. First, don't try to make a new faction. You should at all costs join a pre-existing one. Also, RP before PvP, always. PvP is only to support RP; after all, it would be completely ooRP to have a world where the terrorists did nothing but fly around humming merrily, the pirates nicely asked you for cash, and the Navy and police bid smugglers good day as they flew by with holds full of Slaves.
Now, I will stress, read Xoria's thread. It will help you to a huge degree if you listen to it. That is really some incredible advice Xoria has there... Personally, I wish it had been around when I first joined.
Also, if you have any questions, please, PLEASE don't hesitate to ask. Also, read the server rules, once, twice, twenty time, every day, until you know them by heart.