FR2 allows leader and second in command to order indies around as long as it's canon, barely anything. FR4 allows you to restrict events to officials only, but there are barely any events lately, the recent sanction was oof a kind I haven't seen in years, and yet the FR did not save the event from getting ruined. FR5 allows officials to rephack an individual, but that takes way more effort to submit properly and way more time to be reviewed and carried out than circumventing the rephack.
That's all. On paper? Yes, we can control indies. In excercise? You are kidding, right?
As I see it, and I may be mistaken, the 1st or 2nd in command could have ordered those indies to stop docking on hessian bases. That would be a perfectly canon lore thing to ask. If the indies had refused, they could have asked to have their IDs changed and set hostile to IC. That would have solved the problem, if both official factions had really wished to solve the situation like this. But, it appears that the official factions chose not to solve it like this, and continue the course of RP that they took. It was their choice.
So I may ask again...
What more power do you want, exactly?
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