Well, I had figured that they had been working on developing them for a while, but were having trouble keeping various components from shorting
out/melting/exploding and in focusing the beams to a useful intensity.
Range will probably be somewhat limited as well, compared to rail/coilguns at least (seeing as how they keep going until they hit something)
I don't think B.5 has the market cornered though, I seem to recall energy weapons appearing in some of the fics that have been posted.
Part of the reason the B.5 people have been working on it is cause the Starhawk (based out of B.5) has a pair of Mellenium Falcon style quad turrents, and they
were trying to make them more than ornimental
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out/melting/exploding and in focusing the beams to a useful intensity.
Range will probably be somewhat limited as well, compared to rail/coilguns at least (seeing as how they keep going until they hit something)
I don't think B.5 has the market cornered though, I seem to recall energy weapons appearing in some of the fics that have been posted.
Part of the reason the B.5 people have been working on it is cause the Starhawk (based out of B.5) has a pair of Mellenium Falcon style quad turrents, and they
were trying to make them more than ornimental
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