Happy to hear is there anything missing in the lineup?
I don't know since I haven't played a 0.98 mod run yet.
Maybe a really chonky capital reminiscent of the Apogee? Idk...E:
xD I whipped up a rough sketch, as one can see: My artistic sense cannot even compete with an oyster.

Name?
Worldseeker or Planetseeker or Plane Seeker, idk
Starhopper or Star Hopper
Discoverer or Discovery
Scientist
Philosopher or Philosophos
Cartographer or Carto
Mapmaker
Starcharter or Star Charter
-> Or the name could be an explorers name, maybe a Chinese/Indian/Iranian explorers name, idk. <-
Grandlab or Grand Lab(oratory)
Observatory
Planetarium
Observation
Philopolis or Sopho(s)polis, idk
Archimedes
Bargaze (reference to looking at Galaxies with a bar possibly in the center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_galaxy#Bars )
Horizon
Firmament, wait, I think some modded ship has this one already...
Hope
System?
Material Beam
Holds up to 10 enemies within 800su for 1s, overloads enemy fighters and missiles, minor effects on enemy capitals and cruisers.
Maybe this one has a protrusion in the middle of the 4 mediums of the ship...
Auto targets the 10 closest targets...
Or
AFPM or AFPMS or AFMS
Auxilliary Flux Pressure Missile System (MLRS)
Fires 6 missiles at the selected target, damage depends on enemy Hardflux level.
Missiles are robust and fast but have limited tracking, each missile deals 3 Energy damage per 1% enemy Hardflux, rounded up.
Somewhere one or two such missile batteries are needed on the ship? I think...
Or
Makeshift Drone Attack or something
Deploys 5 heavily shielded drones to soak up damage, drones slowly move towards nearby enemy ships and explode on contact dealing 300 energy damage.
O.o misuse of scientific/exploration drones...
Or the old Reserve Deployment...
the usual Apo/Ody mods
CH reduces storage/supply but otherwise no penalty
Good shields, lots of Flux cap, good Flux dis, mobility and speed almost as bad Ons,
high DP, fuel and storage are somewhere around half Atlas/Prometheus, also decent max crew size, adequate OP at best unless the DP is even higher I guess.
EE: The sausage tube thingy top left is a placeholder for the bridge.

E3: Plane... Planet... Stargaze class sounds... idk.

Observer? Labheart?