I see, tip to my hat for your effort and I wish you all the best. Hopefully more multi-game communities will find ED as a game that they want to play together and bring rise to the need for built-in clan support.
Respectfully - FD themselves see no need for built-in corp/clan/guild/whatever support. It simply doesn't fit in with the game. You are either Alliance, Empire, Independent, or Federal. Any other group rising itself up to challenge the existing powers will simply be crushed by them.
Part of me really wants to see you try it though, a massed army of guild Anacondas (32) taking on an power Fleet (∞) would be interesting!
How serious will you take the actual flying, .e.g, do you enforce NATO air brevity and will you fly in typical flight formations?