Well true indeed. I forgot that Corsairs were too poor to have a technology to match the Outcasts. Yet, I wouldn't say that Outcasts don't need a gunboat. They need that ship in my opinion to get rid of the Rogue gunboat. Anyway, better forget not that Unioners needed a single ship more than you did, having nearly the entire classes of ships. And Unioners are totally neutral at the moment since they had a radical diplomatic evolution by the hand of Igiss. I still think that they should have at least a VHF of their own.
On the uncharted lagoons of anguish, I sail with a canoe made of my sins.