It's a result of the years of previous RP and the last RP, including the FR5, that happened to the group and is ment to show the split within the original faction into two separate entities now. The original part of the previous [101st] is still around, yet under a new tag. You eventually are right with your concern about it not meshing well with the rest of DiscoveryFL, but so may do a lot of other things within the gameplay people create around here and yet on multiple occassions it can find its way back into the overall pattern. As for the diplomacy, that's what came to be over years of play and respresents the actual status of this cell, though it's, as usual, up to changes depending on what new RP is to come.
