AW Is a Mercenary Army for Hire, it is not realistic for a group of mercenaries to establish an operating base. Look at real life, "mercenary" corporations just have an office in an existing building or city, not a military base with a full staff doing patrols.
The AW Name does not fit into Freelancer as a whole. It fits into this server simply because the clan plays here and RP's it. On other servers it's like "Ok, so we have a neutral mercenary army, that noone can hire? WTH?"
NPC's that represent a neutral mercenary army make no sense. Reason being is that what are they going to guard? Theres no point.
From a more OOC perspective, why give a faction an NPC faction just based on age of the faction? The problem is simply that they are not willing to pursue other RP options. Yes I understand that they have their RP.. but it is constantly evolving. Why not evolve it into something that will give them a bit more freedom instead of being so well tied into the zoners? Simply purchase safe haven on a Zoner base, like what's already been done with the system purchase. Theres no need for a mercenary faction to have a swarm of NPCs and an actual faction listing.