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Having a fighter production line on a carrier never made any sense to me. Great, you can replace lost hardware near indefinitely, but so what? You're not replacing pilots on that time scale, so what difference does it make?
Besides, battlestars are huge. Larger then a Nimitz, and those can embark around 80 aircraft all much larger then vipers and raptors. Just bring more vipers. If they've got room for a production line they've got the space for storage, even if they're in parts and need assembly.
Even the idea of mining raw materials is nuts; either the warship is lugging around mining equipment/ships or a support mining vessel is normally attached to it. If that's the case, then just do unreps of fresh birds from the same support vessel.
It only makes sense if the Battlestar can roll into a star system, wreck house then adeploy von Neumann level drones that can bootstrap up to full industrial capacity to replace losses, then move on. But given the colonials experience with the Cylons you would think that'd be a no-no.
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Writers can write whatever they like. Especially things that sound like a good idea but would be logistically impractical.
Ronald D Moore is working on the show, For All Mankind. In that show the soviet government turns its economy into a powerhouse during the 1980s and 90s after they perfect nuclear fusion as a result of harvesting helium 3 from the moon.
It would have taken a bit more than better reactors to save the Soviet Union from decades of industrial irrelevance.