Pirates and Rheinland

[Blodo]

.. why can't the Unioners? Hamburg, Bering, Hudson, these systems are all pretty empty except for the loads of traders passing by. Is there any interest at all in a Unioner faction? I know there was the Workers Front long ago, but that sort of died out due to lack of interest. Now the Xeno Alliance is on the rise, and the Unioners are basically just that except a way down south with less military protection (face it, NY is full of caps, Hamburg and even New Berlin isn't, in fact the RM rarely fight in caps at all) and even more fat and tasty traders to hit. Then there is the fact that they actually can work with the other pirates and raid Berlin, which always has someone in it as well. Did I mention there is no capspamming?

LWB.. well, LWB are like an extension of the Hessians. The Red Hessians farmers division. Doesn't make it any less awesome, they have all of Stuttgart to raid and of course New Berlin. And the Omegas. In fact Unioners have Frankfurt and Sigma-13 as well. So why isn't anyone making a faction?

Rheinland would be epic if all the pirate factions were represented. It would mean more activity, which means even more people, which means... great RP. Me and Kress had this idea of a sort of council of Rheinland pirates. Imagine the standoffs, the coordination, the possible in house conflicts. How cool would that be?

TL;DR why isn't there any Unioner or LWB factions (or even indies) around?