I imagine one of the benefits of it going into the Persistent Universe is that we're going to be able to witness thousands of players fighting this thing and get data back that will help with additional balancing in the future?

Absolutely. These capital ships, they're kind of untested waters as far as gameplay goes. We've had fighters out in the universe for years. We know very well how they work. But these are much larger ships, which you're not supposed to be able to take out with an individual fighter. So having an Aurora or a Gladius just ram into the Idris and kill it would be a problem. So the players are a fairly creative bunch. There's probably going to be a lot of interesting ways to kill the Idris that will get discovered, and we can start trying to work around whatever gets discovered out there. It's going to be interesting, certainly.