Now that it has become clear that our ID will not be opened to allow flying other ships then CR shipline (by ID, we can only fly CR ships) - we are left with the options presented here in this thread.
While in the end, I can see this as being low priority for the dev-team, and my hope was for suggesting the least amount of work as a compromise - I just got told no on that. I don't have much hope on this, but I'm asking anyway.
We want the Zephyr back, either with its old stats, or with a stats buff.
Or, we want the Kronos re-balanced to a heavy battleship, or its model and agility tweaked to put it more in line with a medium battleship.
Or, to add two more docking modules and 200+ cargo to the Kronos, so it can function as a battle-carrier.