Well as someone with an affiliation to this faction with my miner, I feel the need to defend Firestorm's ideas here.
The thing I find discouraging is that a lot of people simply accuse him of wanting the "battleship power" from the start instead of joining an established chain of command. If he wanted to do that why would he spend the time creating the faction bio and then defending it here ?
I see a lot of potential behind what hes doing and a willingness to modify it to better fit his and his allies RP goals which is more then some people can say.
I too am testing TDF. Endor_Phinn affiliates with them well because as a miner and a businessman his bio has him funding covert and overt military actions against outcasts, That being said, the faction is new and still being worked out and will likely have to change alot for the next revision of disco.
In the meantime, until they've either worn out their welcome or integrated into the system, Ill be trying my best to continue RPing Endor, and I KNOW 100% that no one here can critisize that characters RP. I just hope the rest of the system is willing to allow the rest of TDF to play their roll and succeed or fail on merit other then slap them off as "yet another IMG faction".