User blog comment:Braveangel/About planetary defenses/@comment-217683-20100423073936

Noveria is mentioned as having "orbital battle stations".

In regards to the knife-fight range bit, when did the "behind the destruction of Sovereign by packs of smaller fighters" ever occur? Sovereign was engaged at close range (certianly within 'knife-fight' range) by Alliance cruisers. Hardly any fighters were seen engaging Sovereign, just cruisers and frigates.

And once again, not installing more defenses on/around the Citadel is COMPLETELY CONSISTENT with the Citadel Council's 'head in the sand, we know it all' arrogant behavior. They had absolutely no reason to believe that there were any more defenses needed then the nebula itself, the massive fleet stationed to defend the Citadel, the massive fleets that were only minutes away via Mass Relay in other systems, and the 200,000 C-Sec personnel. The only reason that the who situation at the end of the first game was as major as it ended up being was because Sovereign managed to cut the reinforcements out of the equation in the opening stages of the battle. If it hadn't been able to do so, the situation never would have been so dire. So, given that the Council are shown to be full of themselves, satisfied that they know everything and have every situation well in hand with every eventuality prepared for, again, it doesn't seem to be a plot hole, it seems to be entirely consistent with the plot.