i guess its kinda positive to have an active challenger for the rank of official faction. - whichever proves to be more suited gets the crown - which appears to be quite fair.
better than to get it - and sit on it for no reasons than cause you came first anyway ( generally speaking - not related to the involved factions here )
when the admins proposed that concept - that was exactly the idea i guess - to add upstarts and newcomers to actually re-ignite established factions ... or loose them if they fail to recover from sleep. - or if they are not inactive - they may just be obsolete - if it turns out that the other one simply does a better job - even if they practicly do the same thing.
it is a valid question to wonder about the long term goals though. they are too vague - the precise goals only describe your short term goals. - i see little that i would instantly identify as "outcast" there - it could be anything from generic pirate faction to even corsairs, junkers or i don t know... LSF.
it just says "become important" - sort of. that might need a bit more work so that the goals are clearly identifyable as outcasts. so they display "what being outcast" means.
ps.: only houses are houses - there are no semi houses. not even hessians, corsairs or outcasts come even remotely close to the power of a house - or a broken down house even - like bretonia.. they are flydirt compared to the power and infrastructure of those.