Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

> Am I missing something here?

Yes

>  Or are you contradicting yourself?

No

> If  shipping is NOT expensive (i.e. cheap) then LASERs

You mean "lasers"

> (or whatever hi-tech
> weapon is best) would not even have to be locally manufactured
(which seems
> to be the main issue).  I mean if it's cheap then WHATEVER weapon
they are
> issued can be shipped from the homeworld and the tech issue is moot

Right.	What you were missing is that *I* didn't say anything about