secondly, RP is what you make it. I had some of the best RP in om47 with a guy from SPORE, and that ended in Edinburgh with a Gaian accepting a plant nodule inside his brain.
so, yeah, ask not what RP can do for you, ask what you can do for RP.
a united federation of planets is never gonna happen here. Disco is fairly strict about canonical stuff like that (apart from building a house that's impossible to get into, and that you can't take a ship out of, but nevermind). If you want 'strict' i'd go for the RM rather than LN, and you'll also have the advantage of less lolwuts