You rather missed the point there, defence ships tend to be built to cover holes, not reinforce what you have, an FR/DE alliance will have its ETDs building brokers for def.
An FR based xan, or zik is not gonna be hit much by CR.
Anyway this battle over a marginal ship like the distributor is a waste of effort. How about I focus on something rather more fundamental, why does the dagger fire before the cutlass,
a tiny amount of daggers will make zik co totally unlandable. The initiatives should be reversed.