I think it's rather silly to nitpick some pseudosciences, but not others, while the characters will be controlling fully articulated human-shaped bipeds with "sticks, throttles, and foot pedals[sup][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4052994]1[/url][/sup]."

[url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool]But that's me.[/url]

Anyway I'd rather you look at it like a very slow laser than a very fast bullet. That's the practical part coming out the end of the barrel. I just wanted to explain why one laser might be more armor-piercing than another laser, and also why it can only be used at longer distances, so I [s]stole[/s] [i]borrowed[/i] some technobabble from my favorite series of Japanese science fiction novels.