on the topic though i do sometimes feel that inactive official factions need to be a little more humble in their approach to indie factions of the same ID that are drastically more active than themselves.
this is just a consistant recuring theme in the mod, official faction A is almost if not totally dead, indie faction A of the same ID comes along having crazy high activity, official faction A get mad defencive and fire all ER larges, PPC's and LRMS in one group killing the opposition and then they themselves overheat and fall back into their grave.
not saying thats what happened here, but it definitely happens too often.