Teams can build their own Factory with separate research. By default the rocket silo can not be build by players but there is one randomly spawned in the world
the spawn points are saved by player names so you would have to change that.
in general i would recommentd to keep the initial first savegame as a backup.
yes a new map would clear all saved spawn points.
by default every player has a individual team when spawned far/near but after you spawned you can in the "T" menu select to allow new players to join your team and spawn point. these player have then to select your spawn point and not far/near
after a player has spawned there is no way to change his team.