I have a serious question here, aside from all the faction flaming.
Now that the Liberty Navy is all one entity, will the independent systems get patrolled? I mean really, Cortez and Magellan are dangerous. Guarnteed you will have the lanes drop on you at least once through there if you do a trading run. I even saw an OPG guy there once, but that probably should not happen.
Now, if anyone cares, here is my opinion on Navy indies.
It does not mean a member of the military is working for themselves. That would be really stupid because they would need to be a merc to work like that, and they are members of the military. Just because they do not want to join a player faction and follow their every word does not mean they are oorp idiots or capwhores ( don't get me wrong, some people are like that. Someone had a good quote about how those type of indies far outweigh the good. Did I just make a case against myself? oh well.)