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The shot was one flat line that appeared at full length and faded. Nothing happened at the ship, nothing moved, and a hit looked exactly like a miss. The blade now runs out of the hull over the first 30% of the flash on a cubic ease-out, holds white-hot, then falls away, with a hum in its width, a bright cap at the leading end, a flare at the emitter, and sparks off the hull that fired it. MuzzleSparkVFX takes an optional colour so the laser throws cyan where the ordinary gun (#87) keeps its gold. The extra light is a white-hot rod down the middle at 42% of the width, deliberately not a wider halo: the note at BEAM_WIDTH_SCALE records that the drawn beam spans exactly what the beam hits, and a halo past that would put the "it visibly missed" complaint back the other way round. The damage is untouched - dealt in full, along the whole beam, on the frame of the shot. A beam that had to arrive would change how the weapon plays, which the ticket did not ask for, so the test pins it down: a target at the far end of the range must be hit before the drawn blade has visibly reached it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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