I can only say its very sad that some official factions have sanctioned and banned players and have no problem, despite being detrimental to the server and trolling and oorping around, while a vanilla faction, very important to the lore of at least 2 houses, is given no privilege on a situation like this. A 'salvage operation' was started when some members realized that the faction was abandoned by its leadership. It's not a completely new faction, it was born from the old one.
Oh, and by the way: there shouldn't even be a faction activity check until the new tracker is working properly... Using some external tracking system, that is mytical at best to most disco players doesn't pass up any confidence on the decisions made based on it.