Well, I'm a part of the "people" so I'll express my own stances.
First of all - AI is a strange faction. Borderline out of place in fact and thus it's very hard to say what I'm to expect. AI have some power gamed lore entrees and I see people trying to RP that way. My own expectations are lying somewhere in nomad trial kind of RP. Some people going around on SHF drones RPing as they are surveying drones or something. Faction is small and going out on skynet style cruiser war is something that I can't understand and won't.
The best solution is to delete the faction along with docking ring to one of the Kappa's planets, just leave one with Leeds-like landing beacon without capital ship moor - this will represent a small zoner colony on that planet w\o capital ships taking on and off.