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As far as I know the most forward firepower that can be fit into the normal 100x100 build grid is from a missile U.
Previously, the follow was my most powerful ship,
However, due to improvements in crew task prioritization I've created new missile blocks that appear to have higher missile output without crew becoming confused or increasing chain explosions too much.
The following ship appears to have no difficulty defeating the above ship,
(Okay, I did increase chain explosions a bit but I think it is tolerable.)
So if you want you can try to beat this ship.
(No mods and only other restriction is that your ship needs to fit in the normal 100x100 build grid.)
Since @Dalas120 was able to beat the above ship with a dedicated heavy point defense ship here is a revised version that should be somewhat more difficult to hard counter.
I originally wanted to use ion beams but they didn't have enough range so I settled for using large cannons.
I've also added some electro-bolt banks to help with disabling point defenses.