A ship featuring the friendly weapon. Nice. Freudian.
No, I don't think it's ENTIRELY that obvious, but I get the sense that even if it were skinned well something subconscious would make me cringe every time it got shot in a dogfight...
I don't particularly like it anyway, so there goes your first argument. There's no reason for that lower... appendage to be there, it's way too big and chunky to serva any purpose, and it's ugly as all hell. And without it, that ship's a slightly modified Loki from the front and even less inspiring from the side- pointy little semiellipses?