User blog comment:Traditionalfire/Favorite Normandy/@comment-2130363-20120827000818/@comment-3228423-20120827012052

As much as I can agree with you that the Alliance's SR2's darker and lacking in windows to the pretty to look at drive core, I suppose it's for practical reasons. The darker lights could mean having extra power to other systems while the windows thing can be explained by one of Legion's more memorable quotes, "Windows are a structural weakness."