To drift even further off script (and toward my expertise with lasers), you could also choose to modulate your deadly laser beam in order to send a message: either on-off keying or something more complex if you prefer.Another potential justification for firing discrete bursts is that a powerful laser heats up the air in front of it, which in turn disrupts the beam. Firing rapid bursts mitigates this.If we're going off script, a laser weapon also needn't shoot in bursts. You can explain it that way if you really want to, like the capacitors need to charge between shots. But if you've got the tech to design a death laser you might also have enough of an energy source to just sweep it across the battlefield in a single continuous beam.
Think of it as the space-age equivalent of writing a greeting on a bomb you're about to drop on the enemy...
Statistics: Posted by kazzie — 21 Aug 2024 20:26