Firstly, this post comes as a surprise to us, I think it's common courtesy to speak with the respective official faction first, listen to what they have to say and then post a request or do whatever you think is best.
Most factions on this server have a set of "archenemies" which they are able to hunt Sirius-wide. With a staggering 8 years of history between the two factions, we have one of the longest and most animose rivalries in the history of DiscoveryGC.
Also the claim that LH ID can attack IND without a demand is untrue and incorrect. In any case we are always interested if you wish to contact us as we will listen to your ideas and concerns as well as seek out a common solution.
(edit) Clarification: By current ID restrictions a Lane Hacker can only pirate IND transports anywhere in the Sirius and BUT NOT attack them on sight as it can only treat as combat targets transports hauling gate and lane parts.
-snip'd- (no consent from the individual you were talking with to post the Skype logs.)
There isn't even a leader listed for your faction, who am I supposed to get in touch with?
When I am told that LH members are watching us post in base registration threads and stationing ships accordingly, I have concern about abuse. After the way the way we have been treated by IC and the OC, and now that the OC have brought the LH into it, I think we have valid reason for concern and since I don't know who to contact and have been told "If they LH wants to talk to you it will contact you." I don't really have high expectations.
Aside from any of that, if you want a strong rival faction, so that you do have something to rp with, placing ships around Sirius to grief us isn't really the way to help assist with making the faction strong again. If what you want is to stop IND from being able to get on its feet again, that's what this line in the ID is for. We have a few players right now, but we are trying to get more. The quickest way to stop that from happening is to focus disproportionate attention on us. We want to get strong again so we can fight against you, but at the moment, we have no tools to defend ourselves from you. We can't use strong transports, we don't have enough members yet to use heavy escort and we can't place a bounty. The LH ID treats us by the rules like an official faction, but we have none of the rights or protections of official factions. We are legitimately concerned about abuse.
But as I said in the last post, clearly we should have no expectations. We will be held to all of our old vulnerabilities with none of the benefits. It's ok, we can deal with it. But expect to get everything back in retribution 10 fold should we regain our official status and actually stand on equal footing again.
Edit: Also I think you are wrong about the engagement rules.. I was told that "Can attack" in the ID line means you can treat any ship of that ID as a combat target not needing a demand.
