Thanks for the 10/10.
I downloaded and applied your most recent link (post prior to this one) and made the changes manually to the gw_ms_shop.lua because I am tricky like that. Imagine my sadness when Tor still rejected my poor sweet Ramadanta.
But don't fret my coding hero, I was in noob tester error. I loaded back to the save when I was flying Astarte (ugh no more please!) and bought a fresh new Ramadanta and voila Tor apparently likes her now!
My assumption is that the save game where I was piloting the original Ramadanta still had buggy code and by loading a prior save and buying a new one, fresh code was applied.
Also, I had to re-apply the "optional" missile mod files to get my pretties back. I am curious why it is still considered an optional and not coded directly into the main mod since it is listed on the main page as being a core feature.
Anyway, problem solved, good going good sir!