Perhaps is it a little mean to dismiss out of hand every last aspect of the Poodle class, or whatever it was. The ship itself is laughable. For sure, it is completely out of character for the Tin Frisbee Brigade. For sure, it laughs in the face of the UF equivalent of OSHA regulations.

The actual gun the thing's carrying is a class act. It's got potential. And that would be of considerable interest to the various capital ship designing wallahs in Known Space. So what if at the moment it's mounted in the starship equivalent of a damp cigar? It doesn't have to be. And perhaps that'll be something to be looked at by those nice chaps from ZCII or Utopia Planitia?