Will any capital-class ship have beam weaponry, or will it be all standard Star Wars-like laser bolts?asked by Sigma957

Well, for now, we're going to have to do pew-pew, because beams are hard. I mean, beams are cool. Babylon 5, Star Trek, a lot of them have been done. There's a lot of complexity to the engine to do beam weapons.

So it could be something that we play around with and get to eventually, but I would suspect that most of them are pew-pew or different effects-looking things at the beginning. And then beam weapons, a solid beam would take a lot of energy too, wouldn't it?

Yeah, it would. It would drain that power plant right out.