Just a tip,
Be4 the wipe, I had experience two times that i bought a new base, move my stuff in, log out, and login another day, discover things got stolen.
Was sure there were no betrayal or someone followed any of me or my members.
And GM helped to fixed the problem, since we discovered that there are others not in the faction able to see the base on the world map.
So put Mercs, just don't assume it is safe.