I actually laughed when I saw this because of how bonkers (in a good way!) it is. I am very curious what the DP cost will be because while it is a chonky boi, the shieldless nature and weird vulnerability to small arms might not make it any better/worse than a standard battleship.
If I am parsing the gif correctly, the LiDAR beams hit a target and then give the front four Large ballistics extra range and rate of fire. It doesn’t appear to affect the other Larges on the sides. I wonder if it also affects flux cost like AAF because if not, that just causes it to flux out.
As for the armor, my guess is a base 3000 or so with the special hullmod nerfing the minimum damage amount to 75% rather than 85%. Smaller caliber weapons will still do minimum damage for a long time but they’ll be slightly more effective overall. I’m not sure how that will mesh with skills but if this thing was treated like an Max Armor Onslaught, taking it down will be ridiculously hard, malus to armor or no.
Another thing that excites me is that the factions are getting more distinctive. Hegemony has XIV, Tri-Tach has all the high tech toys, Persean League has the new Pegusus, the Church has the Invictus, Pirates have their scrap capitals…Lion Guard Battleship anyone?