You are all yappering on like little children for god sake.
Balthazzar did not do this in an attempt to get a leadership role, but instead to save the Harvesters from being knocked off the official list and lose their ships and ID.
He did out of want to keep the faction going.
All of you talk about how other harvesters are higher up than him but yet they did nothing. They seem to have just stood idly by when Del issued the warning about inactive Official factions. You aren't worthy of your 'leadership' when you can't even be bothered to try keep the faction intact.
So instead of crying about how this is all just a powergrab, maybe try and help things as well.
Oh and waiting for Scornstar to appear back and solve EVERYTHING is quite simply infantile. He isn't your parent and if that's how this faction does things, it probably doesn't deserve it's Official status. Judging by the general lack of help from the 'higher ranking' harvesters as well, the Harvesters probably won't end up with their official status or ships/ids anyway.