So you condemn any trading faction that isn't directly affiliated to an NPC faction? I don't agree with that.
And I can honestly promise they won't be some neutral group. Pirates already don't like them. Mine tenderly refers to them as "whine-px". Let their RP grow. Don't cut it down before it has even started just because it isn't an NPC aligned faction. There's nothing wrong with an independant (from the NPC factions) trading org. If you think there is, that's your opinion, but it has no constructive use for this idea.