How can civilian spacecraft be so heavily armed in most sci-fi settings?

I think I just assumed it was colonized via generational ships after Earth was “used up”.

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It’s a very tight cluster of stars, with a fuckton of planets and moons, a lot of which have been terraformed by some mass one-size-fits-all process.

eta: It explains how Miranda and the Reavers could be hidden in an unknown backwater.

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