Damn, who knew art could get so technical!? I've got a greater appreciation for just how much thought and planning goes into video game art and how it can very much be tied into various other systems that make up the game. You really crammed a lot of thoughts and details in this blog and I'm looking forward to future create-a-ship posts!
Now, I do think it is still too close to the Venture, though. They have the same armor and about the same speed - the Venture even has 20 more OP and from what I took from the blog post the Venture's out-of-combat stats are going to much superior. About the only thing I can tell that this ship has over the Venture is 2000 more hull, 1-2 extra flight decks and sacrifices several medium mounts for a bunch of smalls (but with -20 OP compared the venture, yikes!) ... not very compelling at the moment! I pray it has a Burn Speed of 8 and at least winds up with either more armor or more OP, perhaps both!
EDIT: Oh, just realized that its 12000 hull was a result of the Blast Doors hullmod so it doesn't even have that over the Venture - plus it has 2000 less flux capacity. D: