Guys, I don't question the role of AWs protecting traders and Zoner NPC's, cleaning Theta of pirates, etc. I never did.
I question their claim to control Omicron Theta after they move to their new home system. They are not neutral, they ally with other factions, they are hostile and war against other factions, the fight pirates, they fight bounty hunters. They simply don't act like a pure zoner faction. This is a fact.
And therefore I think they can't control a vanilla 'zoner' system which is not their home system, like the other 'pure' factions can (like RM,SF,SA,KNF).
And by controlling a system I mean declaring their own rules in that system and supervising them.