@Prometheus that is wrong, very wrong, and completely missing the mechanic lawfuls should represent.
You described the lawful playstyle of dead factions that only reactionary log to shoot hostiles - but the lawful job is to patrol, catch smugglers AND hostiles, be the first loggers the pvpers have a chance to log against. They are meant to drive activity, the patrolling percentage is between 20-50 pct of why navies are in the game, those successful ones anyways (depending on house mechanics of course - liberty close to 50% as you just log and play and there's stuff to do, rheinland maybe 25 and Gallia around 10 as even artifacts hauling are legal there and there's little random law breaking to catch outside of hostiles)