I'm liking it more than I did the Tico derived design.
This is just a question, but without the gas turbines, why do you still have such large intake areas?
Don't know, shall edit some of them out!
I think you've also got room for Mk 71s in place of the Mk 45s (but mod them for a longer barrel), and possibly some larger SPY-1 faces (although that's only a maybe).
Shall just play a bit game first than I shall edit the drawing.
As you might notice, I do edit directly to the drawing. So when I save my edited drawing on my computer, the drawing in here will automatically be updated. (The Power of Dropbox!) BTW. If you think it's necessary you can split the topic since this cruiser start to be different than the original one!