Handheld energy weapons

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Another alternative to 'hand-held' laser weapons is the 'full-body phased-array suit'; a modosophont can wear a light-emitting layer which acts as a large aperture laser. This system might not be capable of delivering a very high-powered beam, because the waste heat would inconvenience the wearer; but it could focus a significant fraction of its energy on a single small point a long way away, because the whole suit acts as an aperture for focusing purposes.

As the combat bot article suggests wearable weapons could be far more common in the terragen sphere. What looks like a stylish hat could also be an OPA capable of automatically targeting and shooting dozens of enemies in seconds.