User, please tell me you're trolling...  If it got all those things, there'd be nothing stopping it's construction from effectively being a victory condition.

Higher Health: I agree here as it could use some more health.  Not much, but about 800-900 more hull or alternatively 3-4 more armor points would be fine by me.

Instajumping: Absolutely not.  Way too OP.

Stripping Planets: would make rear-world assault too easy and make mobile VL more OP than they already are.

Aft Guns: While they could be useful, I disagree.  MPJ means that they needn't worry about an enemy being behind them since they can just warp through them for a shot.

Homeworld: I disagree.

PJI Construction: I disagree.

Culture: I do like the idea of making it generate culture, but not as much as a Transcencia and certainly not as much as a Deliverance Engine.  Maybe 1.5 culture centers or something..

@ Volt.

Unless you are secret service, which by the very fact you commented on the capabilities of AF1 I hazard to guess you are not, You don't know if AF1 is armed or not. Those F-22's (or actually more likely F-15c's) you mentioned are there to do any ass kicking required. The VLT I see as much the same way, A ship dedicated to getting the bigwigs the frack outta dodge, and relying on their fleet to keep them safe rather than a front-line beat stick. After all aren't the VL the faction that want's to leave and get away from whatever is chasing them.If anything I'd say that the VRT should be your dreadnaught of doom, rather than the VLT. 

Not trying to start a fight, just pointing out a counter to your argument. I stresses armed above because I am sure that the aircraft has amazing countermeasures and other purely defensive systems, possibly a point defense system of some kind, but I would have a very hard time believing that it has offensive capabilities which is what is what armed usually implies.

I think The VLT is thematically about right, In a fight it should be looking to get away first (Micro Jump), If it cant get away it looks to outlast the opponents (Desperation), and call in help as soon as it can (The Phase Stabilizer ability). The Maw ability is so it can keep the resources to replace it's fleets losses quickly.. I do agree that it makes no sense that none of it's weapons are actually upgradeable with research. but if they fix that I don't mind it have bad offense, and not great defense. Desperation could use a buff, but I'm not all that knowledgeable about the math involved in the background. And I wouldn't mind a decrease on the cool down for the Stabilizer (900, 720, 600, 420 or 15 mins, 12 mins, 10 mins, 7 mins)

One thing I noticed with the Maw ability is the fact that you don't get any XP from the ships that are destroyed by the ability. Sucks seems how all the other AoEs the other titans have make for great XP harvesting.

Ok, now I know it's a lie... 

What if the VLT gained max health/armor (possibly damage as well or other abilities, perhaps an xp increase?) based on the number of planets you consume? or perhaps just have it be an inverse relation to the number of planets you own, say double all its stats, but each planet you own reduces its stats by 5-10%.

all of this would be after the capital upgrade of course.

Either of these would make it a key element to a fully mobilized VL strategy, without making it ultra powered in and of itself.

Microjump should add an AoE that damages structures and capital ships as well, or add a damage component for those things to Maw.

Desperation should become an active ability and include a debuff to enemy chance to hit.

Shorten the cooldown on Phase Stabilizer, or do away with it and bring back fleet beacon as an active ability with a short cooldown.

Maw should not negate xp that would have been gained from killing the frigs and it should target everything in the radius not just a narrow cone in front.

I think these changes would bring it up to par with the other titans.  Right now I have to protect it instead of unleashing it, really hampers VL play style.

I guess that's probably the purpose the devs had in mind..  Create a homeworld that can run away, not fight.  So basically it's a bigger Antorak.

So the other 5 factions get a titan and the VL get... to run away.  Not sure I like how that plays out.  I love the idea of going mobile, I think it's a very interesting dynamic and offers a very unique play experience.  I'm just not sure that has to translate into a crappy titan.

So basically what we're left with is a race that after any other race would have been defeated, still gets to be a thorn in the side of the attackers.  Somewhat anti-climactic.

I'd never in my mind really considered that I basically was trying to turn it into a battleship..  Hmm..  Well, thanks for calling me on that.

In all honesty though, it really feels like a larger Antorak to me and the Antorak does it's job just fine IMO.  Once you wipe out their planets, a VL player is really probably just going to become an annoyance.  If they go completely mobile, they'll be annoying, but limited.  There really isn't a safe-zone for them to relax and repair like the other races have.  You can go to neutral gravity wells, but those aren't terribly defensible.  You can go to stars and get four orkies up, but your ships regen much slower.

I guess, maybe if the titan could effectively project an aura of "home turf?"  Being within a certain radius of the titan grants culture bonus to your ships or something once you get the mobile homeworld research and maybe make hull regen slightly faster?  Idk..  That might make it better for sustained usage and allow a player to use it as a base instead of a liability.

It does seem weak in early game - but powered up maw is a game changer.  With it and the teleport combo this titan with a supported fleet kills enemy fleets easily.  No it cannot withstand against the Tec Rebel but you can beat that one with bombers since it's meant to be more of a super duper killing machines.  I agree that focus fire should be available and I agree that there should be a smaller downtime for the warp gate.  Other than that maybe adding some rockets to this would be nice.

I think adding some kind of culture production to the VLT makes a certain amount of sense, after all you'll never ever get the in-culture bonus while playing as the VL's unless you completely ignore their most significant ability.

Also, I like the idea of making Desperation an AOE that buffs surrounding friendly ships. It wouldnt be hard to do and it fits very well lore wise. Obviously the effects for ships other than the VLT would be reduced.

After some more play time and thinking, here are the things I think the VLT needs:

1. Give MPJ a % boost to turn speed after the titan completes the jump. I think Volt mentioned he has tested this and I think its both reasonable and useful.

2. Make Desperation an AOE that gives a reduced version of the effect to all friendly ships within a radius. Similar to Targeting Uplink on the Akkan, though obviously much better. Makes the titan more appealing and fits lore-wise.

3. Reduce cooldown on Spawn Phase Stabilizer. This horse has been beaten to death so its pretty obvious this needs to change.

4. Give the Maw a DoT on Capital Ships but not Titans. They would be immune to the gravitational effect but would take some reasonable amount of damage from it.

5. The VL's pretty much require a capital ship heavy fleet to play the game while making the most of their unique abilities. This means that the VLT will probably not reach level 6 any time soon. Since it's both central to VL gameplay, and quite squishy in and of it self, I would suggest adding an effect to Desperation that gives it a % increase in EXP gained. Maybe 2% extra exp gained at level 1, increasing the total % by 2 or 3 for each level. 

6. Slightly buff the wave cannons and change the weapon type to the type that is affected by the VL's Wave damage upgrades.