New Order Weapons

[Blighter]

Problem with that? - without going into your stats there - It would be just that, a beam-ish weapon, it does not suffer from a low refire rate, and it would allow you to smack down fighters and bombers with incredible ease.
Aka those kinds of things that have to come in close, so the range decrease is moot.

The drain wouldn't even matter, because you'd just hold down the trigger for a coupla' seconds and if you aren't the really poorest shot the world's ever seen, you would end up hitting.

It's a weapon that comes with no risk, you've basically said it yourself.

Nice thing with a beam weapon like that is easier aiming, and energy conservation. If you fire a light mortar and it misses, you're out 1 million energy - but with a beam weapon, if you miss, you can stop the beam mid-fire so you only lose some of the energy.

You miss a "pulse", no problem.
And once you've hit, you stop. Like directly after blasting a fighter out of the sky.
No "shoot once and either hit, or waste a ton of energy".

Sure, if used against capital ships only, fine, but you just can't restrict the usage of a weapon against specific targets. You can't.
Hence why you'd see it used against other things than the intended capital ship targets, aka fighters and bombers.