Quote:People get off on Inter-House conflict it's what they want to be popular you must give the people what they want not what fits in with regular boring lore that is disco now. Good Lore does not leave 2 Houses doing nothing.
Good lore also doesn't make a House do something irrational/suicidal just for the sake of in-game pews. That's what you can use pirate factions for, especially pirate factions that have fairly unique and extensive ship lines, like the Black Dragons and Red Hessians do. It seems like a major waste to give such attention to something apparently nobody really wants, even for the sake of keeping things close to Vanilla.
Gallia already as a "civil war" with the Council, but that hasn't necessarily boosted either faction significantly. We don't even HAVE an official GRN faction anymore, anyways, and they're fighting practically everybody!