1. I respect you for admitting some flaws that you have. That's not something people on discovery usually do.
2. Well, we have factions like Oracles existing on nearly pure RP basis. Most of the time IRG had pure R&D approach for many years. Now saying that it's "boring" and "not going to work" with the current pop is weird. So I have my doubts about the initial intention of following R&D track fully. But I guess the word "R&D" in your writeup make faction look more "RP" and adds you officialdom points.
3. I fail to see how problems with the late IRG is justifying making much more weird things in IRMM. Wouldn't it better to not repeat their mistakes rather than capitalizing on those and making things much worse with "hey look they did that too".
4. "despise anyone who was not born on Malta or does not use Cardamine" and roaming caps on randoms with maniacal aggressive RP are kind of two different things.
5. You have a little bit of misconception how does science work. When it comes to a worldly-wisdom soldier can be 'smarter', but spending years and decades studying a specific discipline is something else. That's a life path, not a hobby.
6. I don't see how opened recruitment is fixing lore, but that's good I guess.
7. I appreciate your subjective assessments on who's dead and who's not. But it's not making it your approach towards other factions any better, like how you 'vanished' the Ghosts. Legion is facing some activity fall, but declaring them dead is just a poor attitude. Legion is having a strict and dedicated RP direction that it's holding for years. And well, I would prefer that over 'it's alive' Frankenstein that is built from 101st lore pieces among many other things.
And I don't care much who exactly did post that meme, it's just another thing in your writeup looks hypocritic for me and that's all.