The plasma cannon is a great weapon, with a reasonable rate of fire but slow travelling! It can do severe damage very quickly. The Plasma is a "spray and pray" type weapon � with many people only making 1% of the plasma hit its target!

Plasma is useful in a lot of situations, but mostly for in close work because of its lack of speed. It can be successfully used like the fusion down corridors, particularly if you are after-burning as you fire � it all tends to arrive as a giant mass of fire! If firing down a corridor � slide in a circle as you fire � this makes the pattern of fire spread over a larger area and hence more likely to kill someone!

Energy demands for the Plasma are quite reasonable � and you won�t need to re-energise your ship nearly so often as with the fusion cannon.

The Black Pyro ship (available only to owners of the "Mercenary" add-on) fires amazing bursts of Plasma in pulses that are quite lethal! The Phoenix has the slowest rate of Plasma fire.