As a current alive and active player who is a self professed gallente RPer (not under this name however), i have to say there is one very specific reason pure Gallentean RP is harder to do than others:
- We are defined by how we are different from others, we re not like the caldari, we are not like the amarr, we are not like the minmatar.
So that ends up with , so what really are we? and that has not been answered.
In fact the Intaki Assembly, the Jin-Mei overlord wars, the Mannar, they are all part of the Federation but described as "different" parts of it. I've been asking for an infodump on caldari society, religion and customs for a long time.....i think its the least described society there is, albeit we have plenty of description on their goverment structure.
In terms of history i can put the following list:
-Coreli Corporation, my first RP corp, went Serpentis
-Ixion Defence Systems, much like Quantum Cats today, very light RP, much pvp, nice group of guys, not sure if they are still active.
-Phoenix Wing, similar as above, eventually dissolved and members joined veto, nice guys.
-Lutin Group, my own corp, more carebearing less pvp, aimed to be a partner of the big NPC corps, burned me.
-The Durandal Organization, paramilitary if im not mistaken, lost their CEO, became inactive
-Strix Armaments and Defence, most recognized Gallente RP corp, created the Villore Accords, spearheaded the retake of occupied systems, directors were burned, nice guys.
-Eleutherian Guard, Seri's corp
-Quantum Syndicates, moderate stance, very light RP, pvp centric (although im working to slowly raise the RP presence and activity).
I'm sure there is at least 2 or 3 other pure gallente RP corps that i'm missing, but those are the ones i can remember from the top of my head.
Also, we once had the Rue Lounge chat channel, project sponsored by Kaleigh Doyle, a place to gather and RP as a bloc, it was moderately succesful, but as in any democracy people have different opinions and sometimes its hard to cooperate under a single banner.
For me there is a single unifying aspect for the Federation, the love for freedom and personal liberties, all other are secondary. In terms of megacorps, business and moralities, i'm sure we are in many ways equal or at least very similar to caldari culture....except perhaps for employees which may not be considered "assets", as they have laws that protect them better than i would expect than within Caldari Jurisdiction.
It's perhaps this lack of a strong bond that does not allow to form a larger and more uniform bloc of pure gallente RPers. Or maybe is perhaps we need a strong corp in the first place