Are we going to get faction equippables and consumables?
Eventually, yes! These are part of ML and are scheduled to be added in the future. It remains to be seen whether we will tweak the items and/or system, as obtaining silver is significantly easier here with everyone having 4 accounts and being allowed to multiclient. Players have suggested making them equippable only in Felucca, for example, which is something we could consider. We are definitely not planning on adding these artifacts and making them trivial to obtain, causing the original artifacts to become worthless.
Can we get a more specific timeline for implementation of faction arties?
Maybe a year? Maybe a couple months? Or we just don't know yet it could be up to 20 years and still vary even at that...?