Melding Beam Weapons and Guns

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Originally Posted by Daigoro

If they're as different from each other as from lasers, why make Beam Weapons a separate skill?

Because guns fire solid projectiles and beams fire beams. The delineation of skills isn't an exact science (see Artillery, which covers multiple specializations that have literally nothing to do with one another apart from their game mechanical functioning).