damage on the spining ring won't move along the ring (so it will look a bit strange)
I haven't actually seen any damage appear on the ring itself. It may be due to the fact that the entire ring is a decorative weapon, but it's never shown any actual damage. The rest of the ship will, which is pretty much what I wanted anyways.
As for the AI, it doesn't actually have any turrets! Its only weapon is the squadron of 50 Gecko drones it can deploy, but they are forced not to roam, they remain in a tight orbit so they are strictly for defense. And their AI is instanced per drone, so there's really no issues there either.
It's pretty cool ship. However what will be its role in the fleet? We got the Gila Monster as carrier/point-defense platform and the Sandstorm as a Brawler. I am thinking of some kind of freighter/tanker hybrid because of the tanks fuels/crates strapped to it. But then what's that big circle-bridge thingy?
Good questions, and fair to ask. The role of ship isn't a strategic one beyond the above-average storage capacity it has. Freighter/Tanker combo is probably most accurate, although it also has a Repair Gantry. But the reason for why that is, and what the circle-bridge
really is has to do with the lore of the faction.
It's meant to be a really old ship that's been repaired again and again, and fitted with whatever spare parts that happened to be lying around. The rotating ring is actually the remains of an ancient pre-travel-drive space station, that was essentially rigged with engines after the fact so that it could move about. The artificial gravity only works on certain areas of the ship, but on the station itself gravity is supplied the old-fashioned way: centripetal force. Hence the spinning. And the size of the thing? Well it's larger than most current ships, but far smaller than a modern space station. The station itself has also been subject to abuse, and is patched together as well.
She's the Nomad mothership, if memory serves. She doesn't actually have what you could consider a fleet role, rather she is essentially just a city in space.
Got it in one.