Guard Factions

[Bugma]

I play on the Discovery US Server, not the main server which usually has about 180 people on it at once. Why? First of all, I joined that particular server because my dad plays on it, and second, I've played on the Crossfire server in the past, and didn't enjoy trying to fight other players with a ping that was well over 100 (my ping for the official discovery server is about ~160, and my ping on the Crossfire server was usually ~180 at best). My ping for the server I'm on now is only about ~50 at best, which I find very suitable for dog fighting. The only problem is that there is usually almost nobody on the server (maybe 30 people on a busy day) and therefore there is almost no RP. I've only seen a total of 12 other players on my screen since I started playing there, and I was only hailed and engaged in RP once.

Since RP is very rare on this server, pretty much the only thing left to do is buy a good ship and beat up on the poor little NPCs with their Daggers and Falcons and what have you. It's either that, or mine, or trade. However, I decided that it would be more fun if I bought a capital ship from one guard faction, and went to an opposing house and beat up on the NPCs over there. Yes, I know this isn't really good for RP, but as I said, RP on this server between me and other players is beyond rare. And this is where my question comes in to play.

My vessel of choice would be either a Kusari Dreadnought or a Kusari Battleship, because they just look so sexy. However, I didn't realize until last night that I'm hostile with the Kusari Naval Forces Guard. I was flying the Rhineland SHF when I jumped into Hiroshima, only to be attacked on sight. That ship with it's 250 bots and batts is the only reason that I survived the trip into the hostile territory (that and I was out of range of the Battleship stationed near the jump hole). This saddened me, because I knew that it would take quite a bit of work to become friendly with this particular faction. I haven't explored the other guard systems yet, but because I'm friendly with pretty much all of the houses (except for Bretonia, which I haven't visited yet) I doubt I'll be friendly to any of the naval guard factions anywhere.

So my question is this: what is the best and or fastest way to improve my reputation with the naval guard factions of the different houses? Or can I only do this with one house? Also, are the turning rates the same for all of the house battleships, or are they different?