Some of my ideas and questions

[Suicide Junkie]

You can't make weapons an inherent ability of a hull.
You can only use abilities as in abilities.txt.

Other than that, it should work, and be very imbalancing.
You've got your costs way too low. 10K research takes less than a year for your homeworld alone. 10K minerals is the price for a decent Dreadnaught.
Multiply your costs by at least 100 times, or nobody will ever use anything else.

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