This thread was about contacting the leader (or person in command) of an official faction, not replacing it. A faction that doesn't meet minimum activity requirements will eventually lose it's official status, and other players who wish to can take on the role at that point.
Personally I favor merging police and naval factions into one (their role being house enforcement) since players tend to use navy for police functions as is...
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
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