Civi

Ships that do not carry externally mounted weapons. That does NOT mean they don’t carry weapons that can be fired at other ships. It just means they are not mounted externally. There is at least one known A.I. controlled mercenary ship in private sector space that is technically a civi class ship, though it would net an OHS 5 if the weapons it mounts inside its mostly unpressurized hull were mounted outside instead. If they were mounted externally, of course, it couldn’t legally be owned and piloted by an A.I., since A.I.’s are not legally allowed to pilot anything but civi ships. But since this particular mercenary stays exclusively in private sector space, the GCSC isn’t willing to start the arduous legislative process to change the law over a single ship that doesn’t ever take contracts against them.