Ships are a great presentation of character. For example you couldn't have the battleship Harmony without the Lane Hacker Bomber Harmony. K'hara without big, enigmatic Marduks, Vagrants without scary transphasic jumpy quids. Golanski without a bizzare krieg nephilim. Unioners without the GLORIOUS ARBEITER ONE MAN BATTLESHIP EAGLE, Liberty Navy without the buttcruiser, Bretonia without the doom prawns, Gallia without la baguette gun, democratic Gallia without the orange roid-abusing eunuch Valor, Crayter without Battlestar galactica viper imports. Mon'Starr probably wouldn't remain remembered (despite glorious RP) without the gunboat missile terrorist cruiser that people try to re-SRP every so often. Tundra is the fun-dra. Kusari is brave Samurai wearing man-skirts.
Bombastic ships are character building. Every faction deserves a to have a special flagship, but every faction should have to work for it. They make people go "woah" and encourage people to RP. Best of all, they all stick by the balance system. Uniqueness should be encouraged if it fits in the universe.
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)