Couldn't GMG ask devs to take a look at the gasclouds instead, rather than make GMG into yet another bland faction with a bloated shipline?
Or use civ (BW?) tech if a gunboat is really so needed?
Please don't taint the awesomeness of the GMG NPC faction.
Limitations spur creativity where abundance doesn't. I think that's a fundamental truth that kids these days have a super hard time wrapping their minds around.