Well the idea of a refurbished RH Bomber available to the pirate factions sounds cool there are a couple issues; if the stats are different, pirates would simply go with the more "kabroken" version of it. Unless rules where made to regulate what ships can be flown with what ID, that is.
Also the refurbished ships will need to be coded into the game as a seperate ship. Now I don't know if this is true, but I got the feeling there is a limit to the number of ships that can be jammed into the Freelancer code. Am I wrong with this assumption?
Additionally, if refurbished versions of non-vanilla ships are to be added, the creators permission would be required before any changes except loadout and stats can be made. And honestly, wouldn't a refurbed Liberty Gunboat have a more rusted/run down skin?
Now I do not support the idea of regulating ship choices by ID, that was just an example. This is just a few observations amde by a guy who wants to get off work now.