
I only just now realized in this playthrough that I could build in Skin of Heka, and it is
so so worth it. Sure, let me have Wish.com Safety Overrides for my battlecruiser on top of my AWESEM to make it even better. Lookit that flux ratio. This build spews a waterfall of green and blue in every direction at once and might as well have Burst Assault Lasers for how little it cares about fighters or frigates trying to surround it. The Hungering Furnace still gets the job done, but it has a Needler-sized magazine instead of a mounted HMG drum magazine so it might take up to fifteen seconds to Stop A Train instead of the six it took pre-nerf. It might be worth taking off the small PD to add Accelerated Shields, but I don't care for the look of empty slots unless absolutely necessary (if I was going to fight the Mess) and this does fine. I could solo Thousand Eyes with this build if it were actually possible to solo him with anything. There was one fight that I couldn't beat alone with this build. In this playthrough I had added the Luddic Enhancement mod, so when I was fighting the Gentle Fleet, their unique Train would not give me a one on one fight, he'd always have a couple of those IEDs (delightfully unfair, by the way) flank me as he opened up with his full firepower.
I experimented with various combinations of Kilns or using all blue or all green, but this particular combination was the most effective I've found at consistently putting out firepower in multiple directions if needed and keeping the shields down on whatever's directly in front so that the Hungering Furnaces can finish it off. There may be more effective combinations, I didn't even really experiment with Tachyon Lances or Remnant Tech this go round. I did miss the old overpowered Furnace explosion when I was going up against Sema-Tawy Station, that thing is a BEAST.