Tachyon Gun

Tachyon Guns are hardpoint weapons in .

Details
A very powerful weapon, the Tachyon Gun requires an enormous power draw.

This is the strongest weapon in the game against both shields and armors of opponent ships; on the other side it drains your power reserves quickly, so you have to adopt a mixed offensive setup in practice with Photon cannons and Auto-cannons, to avoid critical stop firing or having inhibited afterburner or shields recharging slower (the top offensive ships have all light hull, your body points, so the shields are quite important for your survival once the armors are gone).

An other problem with the Tachyon Gun is its high speed because the others weapons with the same speed consume even more power limiting to few seconds your linked fire (the time you can fire continually with all weapons until you exhaust the power reserve, causing the interruption of your fire and afterburner, and the slowdown of shields recharging). Also using weapons with different speeds will double your estimated aim point in battle (and we can fire just at one of them), so you are going to miss with one weapon or the other (in particular when the target moves laterally).

For these reasons Tachyon Gun requires expert pilots to be effective, otherwise it is not recommended.