I dunno about this entirely, they have pretty huge surface areas, and Leviathans outsize a fair amount of ships, with only the largest capital ships dwarfing them. That's a lot of space to fit weaponry. Talyn is a fraction the size of Moya and can fit a weapon capable of damaging huge ships.
Yeah, but when they starburst energy runs all over the ship from the front to the jump tentacles or whatever.
So trying to stick some type of gunpods with power supply might damage the ship or make it harder for it to starburst.
And can't you just stuff some generators/reactors in the cargo bay? Lots of room inside a leviathan, and they're capable of altering their internal volumes because they're alive.
Well, Crichton managed to equip Moya with a force screen for protection, but gun mounts in farscape are quite huge.And the force screen was an internal mount.
Maybe they could carry fighters and marauder equivalents(basically something akin to gunboats/troop transports.)
But Moya iirc wa snow here near as huge as a PK CC or a Scarren dreadnaught.
And remember, those were purpose built warships and most of the stuff we saw in Farscape was small fry pirates and the like that inhabited the Uncharted Territories.Basicslly the Farscape equivalent of Somalia and the Empty quarter.
IMHO bolting on guns would be like sticking guns on a modern container ship or a tanker.
You might be able to get something useful against the UT's flotsom, but not against a dedicated force.
Also, consider the primary users of Leviathans.
The PKs and the Scarrens, who basically enslave them.
I don't think you want your slaves capable of shooting back, and besides usually they are escorted by dedicated ships or maybe have some prowlers or marauders in the bays.
Sure there are free leviathans, but they basically let people ride them, so it will be hard to force them to have their bodies remodeled and made ugly do that they can be armed with weapons which they despise on account of being pacifists.
There's a lot more species/groups than the peacekeepers though, and Leviathans don't seem like the most challenging things to wrangle.
Yeah, but if the leviathans break out and become angry you probably don't want them armed as stated above.
Also, most of those other groups were as bad as the PKs were.
You have the Scarrens, the Nebari, the Luxans - all pretty militaristic.
Then you have smaller fry like the Hynerians, which judging from Rigel's early demeanor and stories of his people I don't think are that much nicer.
At the least leviathans don't seem to mind defensive measures, like shields and potentially point defense weaponry.
Yeah, shields and some point defense are probably the maximum you can swing.
I guess the show just didn't really dwell too much on Leviathans despite it taking place on one. XD
Yup, I for one wanted to see a spinoff involving Talyn and maybe him getting to spread some of those advanced genes around.
They could have done it cheaply, with Lani Tupu playing a Nemo-like figure role and talking to his charge most of the time.
With some cast of ex-PKs and otherw gradually forming around him.
Hell, for all his sins he could have been sucked in through a wormhole ans dumped on Earth and them made to work with a few humans while Talyn regenerates under the Pacific somewhere close to New Zealand.
Then after 2 seasons, the Earth ark being the second they could have gone back to space.
Farscape had such a huge and interesting universe, and all we got was a soap opera with S&M gear most of the time.