Redesigning the Colonial Fleet after the First Cylon War

How would you redesign the Colonial Fleet after the First Cylon War, and how would it fare in the second?

Diversify its software, improve endurance, and combine battlestars with armored escorts and specialist aviation-support carriers.

The Colonial Fleet redesign begins with different computer systems so that one compromise cannot disable every ship. The real-world comparison is the desire for alternatives to Aegis, even if those alternatives perform less well. Larger battlestars would carry more supplies and operate with greater logistical independence while retaining their combined battleship-carrier role. Drach adds armored gun-and-missile escorts and specialist carriers that replenish the battlestars' fighter groups. He qualifies his proposal because his knowledge of the newer setting comes mainly from a game, and designing against a Cylon return risks using hindsight when the Colonials did not expect another war.