Like I said, there's a big difference between slightly embellishing what a certain bit of technology can do to ensure a fight can actually happen story-wise and suddenly manifesting an immensely powerful combat ability. You could probably infer that the Computer Systems have a wide range of biological analysis tools considering it has both electric vision and the ability to detect the thickness of a material just by looking at it. However, with the exception of putting Higan in the vague area of the Pater so a battle can actually happen, it's not particularly combat applicable. 

And I only utilized it at all because I expected your creature to be underground in its lair, so without that tool Higan wouldn't have been able to see it and would have had to give up in the face of days of walking through a shitty forest that laughs at him. It's hard playing a solider character, although he's made the matter personal he's not suddenly turned into a complete incompetent, so keeping the conflict alive is difficult to reconcile with Higan's personality and characteristics. 

Also, it's pretty weird that the Pater seems so smart and cunning and yet hasn't worked out its enemy would have finite ammunition. Unless it's ran into an abundance of space aliens converting energy into projectiles I'd assume the only ranged opponents its ever faced would have finite ammo. 

Also I'm horrible for having to have the last word, sue me.