[quote=@Admiralkio]
The FTL cannon is OK, though, hard-light is a no go. That is far beyond Humanity's current level of technology.
The Hegemony is rather Hellenistic, so yes. They take the best of all their colonies and put it into their government and military forces, most military however.
[/quote]I can't see how hardlight is beyond humanity's level of technology when they have FTL travel.
As I said it's basically just the manipulation of forcefields and then getting that field to spin at high-relativistic velocities.
Thus light turns into something with effective mass and sorts of a presence.
I think the only example of hardlight people know from fiction is Halo and they somehow associate it with crazy advanced Forerunner technology.
If you have either energy shields or more or less tangible forcefields then you are also capable of producing hard light.
My version is a bit more complicated but if you have plasma weapons shooting contained balls of superheated gases then hardlight projectiles are about the same difficulty.

Seriously, I see more complications for externally assisted warp travel (FTL catapults as long range kinetic kill cannons) than anything with hardlight.