Conceptually, I'm up for it.
But what exact source did you have in mind, Zack? The Lament can produce pretty much any armaments in the spacer's back catalog once it's up and running, but it will obviously take a while to outfit such a sheer number of vessels on its own. It would be marginally slower for a random travelling tramp mothership, mind, since that has its own fleet to look after.
On the other hand, contacting one of the bigger sub-factions that have currently arisen would probably be a conflict of interest, since they are kind of insular. Contacting a mercenary group is a potentially troublesome, but viable, third option.
Ironically, this is the opposite of the problem that Yamatai had; Being a headless state, there is no one person that you can just phone up and talk to.