nBSG Colonies get Invaded

[Esquire]

In what way are they 'excellent supplementary weapons?' Why do the Colonies need to potentially compromise their military effort by adding unfamiliar weapons to proven designs? It's not like they're going to have trouble motivating the public against genuine alien invaders, after all. Sweeping unsupported statements aren't useful.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Indeed. It's worth noting that in the series, Colonial weapons (on a fighter and starship scale) were very effective against the Cylons. Hell, we see Pegasus kill one Basestar with a full volley from her forward batteries over New Caprica. The guns on the Vipers are also perfectly capable of killing Raiders and (as we saw with the Resurrection Ship) moderately effective against larger vessels. The reasons why the Battlestars didn't win engagements more decisively more often was lack of time, limited supplies and having to protect 60 odd unarmed civilian ships.

This was after all why the Cylons went with the infiltrate and plant computer virus plan, so they wouldn't have to engage the Colonial Fleet openly.

So why bother with laser weapons then? Forget the fact that they "look cool" out-of-universe, in-universe you need a better explanation than that.

[Elheru Aran]

Yeah, seriously, Rule of Cool is *not* a legit reason in any universe, including this one, except Warhammer 40,000 and anime.

[Batman]

Especially as lasers don't look cool. In fact they don't look at all. Lasers (even visible wavelength ones) are invisible in space (heck they're largely invisible in Earth's atmosphere).