Getting a cruiser like this is quite possibly a one time opportunity... however, I see one drawback.<br/><br/>With no guns, it makes a great big floating piggy bank for whatever pirate decides to claim it.  It's a huge, slow, target... and with only 2 ships to guard her, (both that focus on speed rather than firepower) It would be a huge liability as well.<br/><br/>If you take the capital ship, we need to figure out how to get it armed ASAP... or we'll lose it.  And armed properly...  If we just fit it with a prow weapon, it'll get out maneuvered and taken anyway... it needs either some really long range weapons, or ones that can shoot in any direction to keep it from being pirate bait.  Sure we can protect it some with our fast ships, but it would almost be like protecting an orbital defense platform, given the differences in our speeds to its.