Honestly KES was the single thing that unified the entire 5th timeline. Never before had so many people all agreed in the destruction of a force @[1969:@Prudence] @[2377:@Commissar Brett]
Jokes aside, it was a faction revolving around a Force Group, A Security Force, and a Navy. It was panned pretty harshly after a deal with the Hutts went through the floor and the group was basically bankrupted.
Negotiations afterwards went so poorly that they became the enemy of several main factions and several indies, accumulating in two major attacks on them, the second of which destroyed the faction.
Oh, that people did. For a number of reasons. For one, KES where legendary at being very poor negotiators, which caused them a lot of problems. Their faction also lacked direction, having two large divisions with different leadership devoted to different things.
What was first mocking for their plight turned to anger after the OOC Shitstorm of Engineering a Takeover, the first large battle, and OOC people began looking for ways to take them down. It got very messy for everyone.