Long post ahead.
I know this is kinda late, but a few years back when I was actively playing Cosmoteer, I made this:
By the way, all vanilla.
I put this into the Community mod that was discontinued along with some other originals and modifications I made to Bounty Hunter ships; this is the only "Capital" ship I have ever made, as I really like to stick to small to medium size designs and swarm tactics.
The core idea behind this was to make a big ship using repetitions of blocks of the same or similar function. I also really hated electro bolts taking out my engines, so I put them inside of the ship so my mobility won't get taken out mid-fight. As it turns out, not so great of an idea; ship moves fine, but kinda weirdly so in a hovercraft-esque way (this was back in like, version 9 or 10?)
This ship is also a bona-fide missile spammer, and the way it fires sometimes made me think of the spider lily, so I took a part of the Latin name of it, and royally fucked it by mispelling it. Good times.
Posting now as I am considering coming back to the game and playing it again for a bit; it's 2022 and there's not a lot of good games out there that I'm interested in :/