Beams

"Beams" are directed energy weapons that can be mounted onto the hulls of various ships. They have three properties:

• "crew kill" value determines the number of crew the beam will kill if the shields of the target ship are down,
• "Damage" value determines the damage that the particular beam will do to the hull or shield of a ship,
• "Mine sweep" value determines the number of mines that the beam will destroy if the ship is set to Minesweep as the primary mission. It is the square of the beam's tech level.

Tech	Name	Damage	Crew Kill	Mine Sweeping	MC	Dur	Trit	Moly
1	Laser	3	10	1	1	0	1	0
1	X-Ray Laser	1	15	4	2	0	1	0
2	Plasma Bolt	10	3	9	5	2	1	0
3	Blaster	25	10	16	10	12	1	1
4	Positron Beam	29	9	25	12	12	1	5
5	Disruptor	20	30	36	13	12	1	1
6	Heavy Blaster	40	20	49	31	12	1	14
7	Phaser	35	30	64	35	12	1	30
8	Heavy Disruptor	35	50	81	36	17	1	37
10	Heavy Phaser	45	35	100	54	12	1	55

Notes

• Heavy Blasters do almost as much damage as Heavy Phasers for much less price.