STRIX died because I didn't adapt it in the way I felt it should have, and because "pro-Fed" tends to become far too generalist as regards organizational focus and objectives. You achieve nothing if everyone wants to be precious and do their own things.
Pyre Falcon today, is the result of what I believed STRIX should have been then. Its present success and viability only justifies in my mind that I was correct in my thinking, that a narrow focus with a specific outlook is better than being inclusive.
In my opinion you could not make this work under a pro-fed angle, because of a severe lack of bodies willing to make that work. IMHO one of the reasons your current corp with it's narrow focus worked so well was a vastly larger pool of bodies to recruit from, as pro-state RP is the "group" with the least trouble finding players.
As it stands, you have become part of the long list of people who went Fed->something else. There is nothing wrong with that as no-one can dictate what you play as or for or whatever, but it's still a sad state of affairs how the list of people who have abandoned fed RP for whatever else is more entertaining. There are ex-Fed pirates of all stripes, your older toon went Angel IIRC, there are ex-Fed State-supporters, you toon was this for a while too IIRC, there are ex-Fed Sansha, and plenty of people who have left active pro-Fed RP to do their own things, and I'm technically one of them.
My point still stands. In a tread asking who is left in RP only the Amarr, Caldari, Minmatar and a mix of pretty much anything else will raise their hands, The Feds are clinically dead and have been for a while now, and as far as I'm concerned this is a shame. It's just that I don't know what to even begin to do with it.
Not sure if we'd count for that, but ANSH goings on in Placid are building up, and the IPI are still doing things
Technically you don't. ANSH are Serpentis IIRC and IPI are Intaki separatists :3