There is definitely not enough deviation to warrant a separate IFF and ID here - there was the ridiculous argument that "ALG took side in civil war" that is completely void because they were re integrated in, there is no civil war.
ALG are not Junkers, in vanilla their reps were set negarive affinity to unlawfuls only - this is simply staff misconception of seeing ALG as the dead one that was doing stupid oorp things like shooting [RM] with their battlecruiser well after the civil war ended - the only slight deviation is that you didn't put pirate outside of House space ID lines, but like all corporations you would both work together while being Economic rivals.
This is simply staff bias, nothing more - they could have accepted while keeping the pirate outside of House space lines in/denying that (very minor and almost unused outside of events when you have allies line anyways) part. Instead they deny a very straightforward request and accept a dead faction? This is terrible news for the future Discovery, when someone will want to take a fresh slightly different perspective from people on staff they will just get automatically denied now and are actively discouraged from even trying to go official.
