I assure you that GMG caught by KNF flying with a Blood Dragon Gunboat would have quite the repercussions.
Cut the crap will you? Junkers and GMG have about the same level of need for a GB, if anything the territorial GMG have a greater need for it, mostly because of the area they operate in (hint: Gas Pockets), as a [KNF] the amount of time I had to pullback from bombing Outcast caps with several bombers in Sigma-13 is overly high, and then call for a cap support. GMG have to face this constantly, but no cap support since they have none.
Forgive me for not being completely familiar with current GMG activities, but I'm going to assume GMG does the majority of their work in the Sigmas? Venturing out to sell their gas? The main issue appears to be gas pockets outside of house space where anyone who gives a damn about what GMG are flying shouldn't be? At one point the GMG were ready to go to war with the KNF, I'm curious as to why they're so careful now about upsetting them.
Junkers and GMG are apples and oranges.
Why not make the gas pockets do massive amounts of shield damage? Assuming the pockets don't detonate torps, a constantly shieldless gunboat would be a sitting duck.