The Tempest thread (confirmed 100% weaponry free)

Not trying to deny that. Point is, they usually didn't wilfully go out of their way to make those bad decisions.

There's been plenty of reasons given. However, there have been no GOOD ones. 

There wouldn't be. I would never deem it logical, practical, smart, etc to go into the unknown without a weapon. 

If the reason is "weight." Get rid of all the recreational and comfort providing nonsense and add weapons instead.

If the reason is "ship space." Same as above. Remove non-essential areas from the ship for weapons.

If the reason is "we come in peace." Hide the weapons under armor than can conceal it to look like there are no weapons, yet can be deployed when needed.

If the reason is "lack of funds." Then what are they spending these funds on to where they couldn't provide light armament to a scout vessel?

I'd also appreciate it if you didn't try to imply that arguments for not having armaments on the Tempest are "retarded".  One of those sounds worse than the other (lacking imagination vs. retarded).  

Is this still going on?

I'd have thought there could only be so much repetition of two differing arguments before... *remembers people still arguing and debating ME3 endings*

Never mind

After all these pages and the same discussion still raging on,
this is all I'm gonna do from now on in this thread.

It will go around and around, until a good in-universe explanation will be delivered (different from plot armour, I mean). Or until the lack of one will be confirmed.
Or until the next trailer.
Or until we find something more appalling to point out.

Shieat...
The horror of those times. I still remember it. Vividly. Like a bad Vietnam train.
A toast: to the old reave. Not even skrillex could do the same.
MWRMWMRWMRMWMRMWRMWRMWMRMWRMWMRWMRMWMMRWMRMWMRMWRMWRMWRM

Look everyone its quite logical, they didn't want to add weapons on board the tempest to make it lighter so it will go faster. Forget the fact that the ship has no weight at all because its in SPACE so the principles of it going faster or slower due to a heavy gun/Armour or not no longer apply.
The ezero is to decrease mass not weight because weight is massXgravity, so apparently the amount of mass then must be directly proportional to ezero used in the core to produce the mass effect field.
Since all ships have O weight and O mass, I fail to see how the addition of a heavy gun or armour makes the ship go faster unless you are chanelling energy that would normally go to weapons to the engines or perhaps they are getting extra energy due to the deficit in the ME field because its lighter and they don't have the means to transfer energy from one system to another (Wait what about the ODSY drive capable of transferring the ME field charge into useful energy?....cough)
Since the ship is probably 99% of the time in SPACE, they could have at least added the armour and it would still be as stealthy.
So really the only time it would be useful to be faster and stealthier would be within a planets gravity field and apparently the energy from something like an ODSY drive is not enough for a gun but it is enough of an energy difference for the ME field shipwide to not bother installing one to make it faster and stealthier. And the circular of logic is complete.
Also even if you are using rocket fuel and not ME fields, you have to remember that the ship doesn't weight anything because its in SPACE so you use the same amount of fuel for a certain amount of thrust because of Newtons 3rd law which was seemingly broken in our own world by the Electromagnetic drive NASA is testing in SPACE.
Oh Callo Jaffacake, you had us going. And you call yourself a salarian,

SPAAAAAACE...its a thing.

People have given you plenty of varied and perfectly valid reasons that it might make sense for the Tempest not to have weapons. The fact that you've written them all off as "it's a scout lolololol" says more about you than it does anyone else.

Second AI briefing:

"As you travel to the edges of the known galaxy, a small escort of combat pilots will defend us from any threats.  However, once we cross into dark space, we will be alone with only our kinetic barriers to shield us during our centuries-long journey."