This is something I wondered about for a while Currently SC applies recoil (mostly the new procedural recoil which I enjoy) to all energy weapons in a mostly similar way to Ballistics, although in my humble opinion alot of the recoil strengths aren't right accross the board, but that's by the by. Have a quick look at this video from about 30seconds, you can see the central cylinder of the Demeco is rotating My understanding of recoil at its most basic and layman level is that a bullet is being propelled by a tiny explosion, the recoil is the resulting opposing force from that directed energy. Now, there's some debate about what 'lasers' actually are in SC, most people call them plasma, i.e. lasers creating plasma; so a physical entity is being fired forward, and so the opposing force will make recoil. But even if that is the case, and lasers aren't pure energy in some form, we can see the Art tells a story of moving parts that isn't going to generate a back and up movement. ---- So my question is, shouldn't laser weapons like this actually suffer from a different recoil? i.e. more side to side or twisting than simply up and back like a conventional ballistic firearm? Due to moving parts spinning inside? Edit, or is there conceivably a counter weight spinning inside the weapon cancelling it out?