Thanks, I always forget that engineers take up 5 slots.
Yeah, it's still a rough first draft. I think I want to put missile on it as well (because what is the Yamato or SDF without a billion zillion missiles spiraling through space?), which creates an interesting quandary as well: You start with a full magazine of advanced, powerful missiles. But you have no way to replenish them. As you use them up, you'll wind up restocking with really crappy human-made missiles. Actually makes you consider how to ration your firepower somewhat.
As far as speed, do note that it's also hyper-capable. So in the outer reaches of a system (or even the inner reaches for M-class stars), it can haul ass.
Yeah, I might drop the harvesters off the main ship and house refuelling drones instead (especially since they can be commercial ships and thus maintenance-free).
FC issue: Noted. Won't save that much space, but I guess every little bit helps. I haven't decided what to do about the maintenance issue yet. Part of the whole concept for the scenario was the idea of "you have a super-hi-tech alien dreadnaught. Which you have no idea how half the stuff works, so if something really truly breaks, you can't fix it." Diminishing returns and all that.
Ths BFS is intended to give the human some breathing space to carve out a sphere and then fight a desperate war to push back the alien NPRs before finally succumbing either in battle or to age and entropy. It's not intended to last.