Well in all honesty i'd have to go with the the thought that the laser stations recognize the viper over an attacking foe. Plus i like Steve's idea about protecting the launch tube's from attack. I mean i guess he's right. If there taken out no launching of vipers.
From a fanboy perspective the batteries are pretty close to where i propose placing them. Now there could by all means be some surface batteries above or below the landing bay's in order to keep raiders at bay while the vipers are being launched. After that all other batteries could be initiated to ward off attacking raiders.
Look at this shot. 2 different row's of laser batteries.
1. Upper row laser turrets.
2. lower row lateral lasers-which could include the pulsar cannons along the outside of the landing bays. Of course this is all hersay but does that make sense?
