Monke ships/designs change along with the time period of the quest; changing from uglier colors to green during the "golden age" of exploration, before turning dark during the genocides, getting lighter, and now currently they are chrome (because the players traded -1% Materials for it) and to give them a unique look in the current era. I wouldn't mind them having a set color pallet (like that blue) since some other factions in space also have more set color pallets. I'm still open to new battleship designs for the Hegemony though, since I'm not really happy with the one I've got thus far; but the Frigates and Cruiser designs are unchangable at this point and iconic.