I will wait for Salem to post a few things here about that.
Here is my point of view:
After our discussion about JG's future, Salem left JG leadership in the hands of Dalilama and me; to pursue a new assassin guild. We both are mature adults and we realized that this is just a game and not worth messing our friendship (I have known the crazy dude for about 5 years now).
...for those who remember, going pure zoners just killed our gameplay and I believed going pure assassins would have done the same (what Sky was suggesting). I stood hard and fast to our merc rp providing escorting duty to our ships and other ships when things were slow (I am a part of the council of JG elders). My idealogy was to carry out assassin work under no name ships so fingers could not be pointed back to us. The discussion we had might have been heated, but the passion we both have for our guild may have been to blame.
..We parted ways....
Any how I still fly my JG ships, I am a pure merc. I help all who need help for a price. I don't know what the future holds for JG, but as long as I am playing freelancer, I will play as JG. just to show our numbers.
...and Sky... I miss you in the game man....
PEACE
P.S. I did not approach MM for assimilation. we were both new and I offered partnership where each faction would create a few players of the other faction. It didnt pan out, but we still cooperated on things together.