Not every faction needs a their own ships people. If you do that, you kill the Freelancer feeling that Discovery has. Right now it seems like every ship that doesn't look like complete crap gets put in as long as there's an opening. That's bad.
Now, an Outcast/BW gunboat is something we really need. People are always complaining about how the Outcasts get a whole bunch of ships. We really shouldn't. When we get our own gunboat we'll have absolutely no reason (except for a few cases where RP depends on it) to use ships other than our own.
And FYI to everyone, I sent plans for a GB to AoM to have modeled. I don't really want a competition or anything, it's just that I really don't care for Eppy's design because it looks nothing like any of the vanilla Outcast/BW ships and I would much rather see the ship I envisioned be put in.