Satoshi was either jacking everyone off with his projections of a centralized system in which case it was a clever use of resources, or he meant what he's (supposedly) said in which case he's was kind of ignorant. One way or another I cannot help but look forward to actually showing people why decentralization is associated with robustness rather than trying to explain it to a bunch of semi-tards. Especially if MP and co are doing the heavy lifting.
So how much hashing power are you going to have on your new alt? Do you have any plans for changing the difficulty retarget shortly after the hardfork?
Some genuine advice to help you in your efforts.... perhaps your efforts would be better spent at convincing the mining pools operators and mining clients from this upgrade or buying up over 5% of hashing power? At minimum design those "pogos" so they can be upgraded if needed in case the hard fork goes through(I know, you don't believe it is going to happen.... but you should always plan for these "black swan " events)