The new Michigan looks awesome - though I'll miss having three large guns right up front where I can get full benefit of their range. Lots of medium slots for particle cannons, though, yay!
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Finally got to play around with the new Dragon class cruiser - wasn't until level 43 that I got one delivered to the station (at which point I immediately realized "Oh, hey, they have some of these in the random missions, don't they?"). The turret arcs are... odd, and, at least with the guns I've installed, cause the AI to try and broadside things instead of actually pointing its front at the target. Also had some issues with the central medium turrets (equipped by default with smart rockets) not firing at targets in front of the dragon at all, despite being just barely capable of doing so. Adjusting the turrets to have a bit more overlap to the front fixed both issues.
The large hardpoint looks like it's out of position - I'm guessing it just never got re-adjusted after you swapped from two hardpoints to one? Of course, if you're planning on installing a built-in weapon of some sort here, then it hardly matters if it's off a bit now.
The choice of small ballistic slots with flak cannons also seems odd, given that the XLE has both of the best small energy point defense guns in the game. It works; just... seems odd.
As for armament... I know you've said the charged boltguns / boltcannons are a temporary placeholder, but I feel they're a particularly poor choice for this hull - they're very flux-hungry, and the poor dragon barely has the dissipation to support a single such weapon, nevermind six of them. Replacing those with 408mm shrapnel cannons backed by a mix of 50mm dual cannon and 125mm battlecannon results in a vastly more effective design. (I actually prefer shotgun drivers, but thought it made more sense to use guns made by the XLE's allies.) If you then also replace the microlaser arrays with beamers, you have enough ordnance points left over to add an integrated targeting unit, the XLE's signature insulated engine assembly, and one flux capacitor.