This is probably gonna sound a lot more aggressive/flamy then I intend, but didn't you come back, restart CR, randomly disappear for a month or so without prior notice, leaving Leanson to rebuild the foundation and gather members himself, then come back to bask in the glory of someone else's work for a bit? Or at least that's the perspective I got.
You didn't rebuild the faction all on your own, you had help. The problem is that you seem to view them all as underlings rather than equals, making it impossible to 'dispute' your opinion.
A faction is a collection of players, and you can't claim ownership of players. Ships? Sure, but only the ones you made yourself, other players make ships for the faction, not for 1 individual. You should get a blueprints of stations that you worked on significantly, but not ingame unless you also collected all the resources yourself, since resources collected by others belong to the faction, a collection of players that worked together.
Plus Leanson changed the internal structure I hear, meaning the only things you can really claim is the name, your ships, your station work, and your loyal members (whom have already followed you I heard).
I probably went a tangent, oh well.