After 22 hours since the thread was posted, after nine pages of (not solely) tears about LWB's (temporary) removal, after at least one ragequit of a vet, and after I asked no less than three times if there is anyone willing to actually play LWB I have not seen anyone coming forward saying "me", just people raging "muh sacred vanilla faction" and "removing factions is bad/stupid/cancerous/whatever" left and right. The only more or less reasonable point I found appearing here against removing the faction was that we have already enough unused guard IFFs to recycle before having to touch factions currently in use, and even that still touches only half of the reasoning behind the decision on LWB's fate.
Keep up with the tears, kids.
@Devs
Penance looks nice for now, even despite the glitches, though I hoped this time Council gets the big gun as well. Tests will continue after the hotfix.
Aspis looks nice, though the extra turret slots lacking their base makes them look a bit weird.
I haven't got time to check all the other new features yet.
