Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160125035940/@comment-27144409-20170417175610

The only beam weapons we've seen so far are exclusive to the Atlas military, and even then they're pretty uncommon. Aside from Penny, who was a top of line secret project, they have been exclusively installed on heavy platforms.

It would be pretty hard for pirates to get their hands on that kind of firepower, and even if they did, it would probably be old and/or inefficient compared to the big airships, let alone Penny.