special effect

I'm making an aquarium auditorium (like in the pictures below). I thought I could place a light source inside the water, to have the light effects from the first picture in the whole room, but that doesn't really work. As you can see in the second picture. So my suggestion is to have an...

How do these work? Is the healing potential tied to the damage potential, or is it an entirely separate variable? Does it suffer "undamage" drop-off like DPS does? Does it stack with multiple lasers like DPS? Does size of the laser matter? Does fixed lasers heal more than turreted lasers? Tell me!

I run a Vulture with twin gimbaled beams, both using Thermal Vent. I'm planning on changing one of those over to Thermal Shock, as running ice cold all the time is actually a bit of hindrance (it's hard to see through the ice). I've experimented with TS in the past, and while disappointed in...

I just tried the Inertial Impact SE on my burst lasers, and I was impressed with the stats, but in the actual field they are USELESS. Well, if you can talk a T9 into sitting still as you shoot it from 100 meters away, then I suppose they are usable, but come on, this jitter is insane. If...