Actually Id hoped that much of the above could be interrelated
Malexa as a Mandalore comes to power, assassinating the Dhawherd, Ranovlas power base. (I got good story idea for that : leave that with me; trust me)
Part of the reason for the change is that Billy (me) and Diane (Malexa) disagree with Ranov strongly on RM and Gallia. We want to hunt them, he doesnt. We want to get involved in Gallia, he doesnt. Once the Dhawherd are killed, Ranovla flees into (hopefully temporary) exile.
Shortly after the changeover, we start hunting RM. BAF is very alarmed, and basically says Look, old chap, we cant have you dragging us into another war. Unofficially, of course we favour Libertys side, but we must keep up appearances. And getting involved in Gallia? You can still work for us, but maybe more on the sly. Can you make your centre of operations somewhere other than New London? Coronado is nice, I hear..
I dont see us changing the faction name, in spite of starwarsness, based on the feedback.
The Dhawherd are currently numbered, ie Dhawherd Solus literally means Stealth 5. (I think) We could just call the new ships MM~Solus. Literally, a Mandalorian scout/attack ship. Even more whacky, maybe we could get AI ID for them? Automated attack robot ships? Ooohh