Why not.. a gunboat can be used as a civilian exploration vessel, it will travel betteween worlds and you realy need some serius weapons in the case you find any agressive alien form of life "nomads". Dont forget that the civilian ID you can just use until some level, than you need to change your ID, its just used as a transition ID, and if you buy certain civilian ships as an Stork - CT-73 Civilian Advanced Train, you canot use the civilian ID anymore your level will up to 70.
As you can see no civilian ID can fly a Civilian Stork train, nobody can realy keep playing as an civilian forever, when in the game says that the ship is civilian it means that it is unfactionalized, every body can buy without problems did you got that? we should start to use the term generic then, it's just a word.
The Mandalore's Office Signed, Mandalorian Alor'ad: Vau.Bendak, Mandalorian Mercenaries. Slaver: Cpt Fernandez, on board of -SE-Arabian.Nights, Slavery Enterprise Corp.