As I am playing as Terran/United Empire, my Exploration ship wire frame looks like this:

...eventhough the shiphull I'm using in this case is for a Vodyani. What I'd like it to be is this:

Is that something that can be changed?

Hello,

Not spoiling or anything, but you should wait until the Release Update. With custom factions and stuff. Where we restructured and added some data to allow for this sort of things to be done easily.

Just sayin'

Works for me :) Just wanted to know if it was something that we could change in the future. Looking forward to the Release Update!