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  I know, the very idea is EXTRA HERESY!    Nonetheless, I ask you: if any players of the BT aerospace games have converted, or were to convert, BattleTech aerospace vessels into the stats used by another game-system, what style of conversion did you/would you go for?  For the sake of illustration, I'm using the much-maligned Vincent corvette and the Davion II destroyer.

a] Stick to the original ship's design as literally and faithfully as possible, no matter how 'sub-optimal' the result would be within the new rules-set.
  (The Vincent mounts missile-tubes in the nose, with point-defence laser-mounts on its flanks; the NAC/10 turrets remain single-mount kinetic-weapons, even though under the new rules such weapons are so short-ranged they're only marginally useful.  The Davion II mounts a whole lot of KEW turrets, of all different sizes and mounting-arrangements, for a devastating close-range weapons fit; it also has a few naval lasers and a mix of different PD weapons mounted all over the place.)

b] Make mild changes, trying to make the resulting design match the 'feel' and fluff of the original as best you can while keeping it useful within the new rule-set.
  (The Vincent replaces each single NAC/10 with turrets full of naval lasers, losing raw close-range punch but gaining far-better range and anti-fighter capability, as well as bracketing-fire; its PD mounts now pack large lasers and AMS.  The Davion II changes all of its KEW mounts over to twin NAC/25-equivalents, gains some more naval lasers, and all of its PD mounts are now of a single type which combines PPCs, missiles, and AMS.)

c] Go back to a blank sheet of paper and rebuild the ship from scratch, trying to match the original's feel but starting out from the base assumptions of the new system, not of BT aerospace.
  (The Vincent now mounts nuclear missiles and NPPCs for range, penetration, punch, and bracketing-fire, becoming an independent light combatant in its own right; the defensive weapons become turrets that combine pulse-lasers, missiles, and AMS.  The Davion II gives away many of its NAC mounts for long-ranged NPPCs and/or NLs, replaces the other KEW mounts with twin-NAC/25s, and uses the 'common' PD turrets from option 'b'.)