I can easily see an animated plasma beam or electrical arcs spanning between the two metal points in the center of that ship.
That was exactly what I had in mind. I'll have to post the Shamash and the special weapons explanations this evening; I had guests over somewhat unexpectedly and I didn't have time to do a write up last night.
Edit: Alrighty, still got a bit of cleanup to do (neither of these ships are popping quite yet) but I'm close I think. The Shamash I thought could use a slightly different color schema due to being a phase ship but I'm not so sure about it. I remembered, way back when I first did the Charybdis, someone did a few swaps of the colors and one of the ended up with a nice bluish color on the exposed greeblies.
And the work image of the Shamash, still with the original underlaiment coloration, for comparisons sake.
Okay, so special weapons talk, will be coming in a little while. Gotta do the write up but I have to run around for a bit first.