Dusty is right and it was repeated for many many times already in all those "what do with <some faction> activity.
All you need is someone who will be willing to invest his time, imagination (some is mandatory to haz) and will be charismatic enough and with ballz and stuff to bring it on. Once faction is on da wheels of fun people will start to jump in, untill that it's a dead space.
The current situation is a stone thrown into the current leader's garden the most. Or we can keep pretending it's shipline's, lore's, neighboring faction's fault.