How it started: I wanted to design a cool looking spaceship, and wanted to make something as elegant and terrifying as a soaring eagle with two menacing talons sticking out in front and a forked tail at the back. How it's going: When I had only designed the engines and weapons systems it still looked kinda ok, but then I had to add processing and it got a bit of a middle aged appearance, and then I realized I needed to place the rocket turrets further to the front, and I ended up with something more like a gingerbread man than a soaring eagle. But I guess it's mine -- and at least it's not rectangular
Processing is inspired by u/InsideSubstance1285's "universal asteroid processor", which essentially uses a bunch of crushers that are circuit controlled to select a useful recipe based on conditions: if there's too much of one roid type, reprocess it, and it there's too little of a resource, select the appropriate processing recipe. Collected and reprocessed roids go to the top loop (with collectors outputting to the belt only if total number of roids <X) and processed resources go the bottom loop which goes to the fuel and ammo factory.
Power is a simple 100MW fusion reactor. The unbarreling plant and solar panels can be replaced by more cargo bays as soon as fusion is started and there's enough fluid in the tank (1k seems to be plenty). It takes a while to start up at first as the solar panels only barely provide enough power for the inserters, so for building it it would probably be best to start with the fusion power (and possibly laser turrets if not on nauvis) and then build the rest. Engine fuel control was inspired by the Clipper design by u/rmouse with a simple clock and fuels pump for 25 out of 60 ticks.
Weapons are straightforward, lasers shoot at small, guns at medium, and rockets at large asteroids. Four laser guns at the side without targeting restrictions take care of roids coming from the side when in orbit. The four (uncommon) collectors seem plenty. The processing is a bit tight, especially the single rocket plant - maybe I should try to squeeze in a second somehow?
[PS at least after some careful nudging chatGPT admitted that "Ah yes, looking at it from a bird perspective, it definitely reminds me of a bird of prey - particularly an eagle or hawk with its wings fully spread!" - lol ]