No, it doesn't. A cruiser is almost never a command ship in a large navy; it does not have the sort of central role an FS universe destroyer has. Until the end of WWII, battleships were the flagships of major world navies, until they were usurped by carriers. An FS destroyer combines both carrier and battleship into one vessel. There really is no real-life equivalent to crazy one-off projects like the
Hades or
Colossus except for some of the Third Reich's wacky "wunderwaffen" ideas, and the Shivans have such a massive industrial advantage over the GTVA that there's no real point of comparison for them. They can pretty much build anything they want in whatever quantity they want.
Anyway, less argument, more pictures. I just decided on a new model for the
Raiden, since the Scooby Doo model I was using was ridiculously large. Once I run its bump map through Crazybump to make a normal map it will probably look even better:
