Well, I am going to understand both sides some. In general the zoner shipline is a bit weird. Representing a peaceful and likely we are neutral to the most factions on the one side, but having ingame ships that are weaponary nailed to the maxium on the other side is by their stats is some strange.
The models by itself i think aren't the best...it's just my personal feeling but i still think about round and feligrin shapes just by the word zoners. These new ones looks far to much angular. Just my personal opinion. The current aquilon model is an example of how i think a zoner ship should look like.
What I totally don't understand it that there wasn't a prior permission of the officials. I think that's one of the reason to have officials to give off faction-content to a highly competent group of people.