Easily one of the most effective, efficient and versatile designs out there.

The missiles and drones on this thing especially are just ridiculously effective at cheesing just about any campaign mission that calls for just about anything to be destroyed.

Realistically, cost relies on factors like precision, thermal margins (e.g., running within 0.5 K of meltdown or tolerating +500 K), and equipment tolerance. The 63 million figure fits campaign restrictions, those calculations depend more on solar system resource availability than precise extraction or manufacturing economics. Jupiter's abundant materials might lower costs, yet the fuel needed to escape its gravity often outweighs those gains. 'Cost' calculations lack depth in areas like mineral extraction and the challenges of ultra-precise component production via batch processing and 'binning,' which can undermine affordability.

It's interesting to theorize how an interplanetary empire capable of building four 200mc battlecruisers under near-peer conditions might maximize its industrial potential for warship performance by leveraging manufacturing scale (multiple copies of a single design) and minimal logistical bottlenecks.

A detailed write-up on the statistics and performance metrics, as well as the focus on the maximization of performance to the cost measurements set in the campaign (cost imitations meant to portray what could be feasible to maintain for an interplanetary civilization in one solar system given a relatively equal counter faction) does result in some smart designs.


This is an excellent example of a mod, as it has a level of kindness (actually describing part of the process, the logic, for the design, instead of half-baked imaginary backstory lore or nothing at all) (and a real focus on making sure it's got enough performance maximization to be "clever" in a sense.

This thing is so OP. It performs as 200 MC battlecruiser with price of destroyer.