Build Study | Bottennapp #2 | Space Engineers

What is the role of the ship? Form often follows function as rule #1; but there is always room for the rule of cool.

Please critique my ship - Bottennapp
https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/comments/1ksz8uh/please_critique_my_ship/#lightbox

Bottennapp: "I was going for like a heavy industry/refinery with survival/home base properties and be able to protect itself and just kept going..."