Hi Dieter - First, I'm PM-ing you the faction info we've developed so you can see perhaps a fuller story and rationale behind the Federalists.
Well, this sort of pulls half the rug out from under us, but not fully. Our group is (theoretically) a coalition of political leaders, workers and labor advocates, scholars, and former government pilots, all with different, but allied, interests:
1. We work for full democracy in Bretonia based in a federal system of government (hence the name)
2. We therefore seek the dismantling of the monarchy, but also the military industrial complex that supports it.
3. We seek to bring down BMM as it currently operates, with neglect for its own employees and the environment of Bretonian space, and also in exclusive service to the Crown.
4. Points 2 and 3 mean that we strike at BMM trade, which is currently in process. This includes trade interdiction but even nonviolent persuasion of traders to stop doing business with BMM (and yes, this has happened). (We don't like Bowex either, but at this point there's not a pressing need to strike at them.)
Basically, we're a combination of Bundschuh and Unioners, only Bretonian. Our operations are primarily political rather than combat (though there is inevitably combat), and we also have a trade wing for revenue.
I'm not entirely sure about being absorbed, since we're not primarily about combat. Also, the governmental changes would have to be far more extensive than you've suggested here for the Federalists to agree to disband.
Speaking for myself, let me first wish you luck with BAF - we'll do whatever we can as a group and as individuals to support you. Second, I'd be open to other ideas and plans to change things, but I don't know that I'm ready to give up on the Feds yet, especially now with Molly players being mostly inactive.