If you want a cruiser that can (kind of) take care of itself in all situations, the Hyperion is your best bet.
Not really. The SBlues have a five second faster charge, which is still 40 seconds between firing, and hardly if any damage boost compared to the sgreen.
SBlues have almost double the sustained DPS which is a reasonably substantial improvement over the SGreen.
Plus a substantial range improvement.
My point is that, with or without SGreens, the most important thing for a lone Aeolus to have if it runs into a hostile warship is its subspace drive.
Implying that it isn't already.
Seriously, SGreens suck. They're absolutely trash pieces of **** that you cannot understate how much they utterly fail at doing sustained damage. You could do more with a single SUBACH.
If you replaced the SGreens with ULTRA-AAA's it'll actually do
MORE sustained DPS vs capships at the same range!
The only thing SGreens have going for them is that you can finish off Corvettes and Destroyers with it.
And those warships have so much HP that your burst damage will never get anything done due to your absolutely abyssmal, horrid, refire time of three quarters of a minute of doing absolutely jack ****.