Zoners made their gunboat, and then designed an offensive one. A ship ment for 100% for killing fighters and bombers. Of course they had no need for such a ship and shared the design with the Order. The Order solely produces the ship and no one else. I forgot if we also had in mind that the designs were given to the Order, but back when I wrote up the infocards for the Order ships etc. I talked with Jinx about the Hathor and we agreed upon the more defensive-offensive variants. Zoners keep the defensive one and the Order gets the offensive one.
The ship is supposed to show a partnership between the two factions. There were other ships in design to show similarities between the Order and the Zoners to show that they were in fact allies and trustworthy enough to make such a transaction.
Anyways, in regards to getting one, use diplomatic means, quite a few are flying under the Zoner tag right now. Although I still don't understand why Zoners would want a ship that was designed for nothing except killing fighters and bombers. That was the idea behind the Hathor after all. A slaughtering machine with it's mind set only on killing.