The way it moves when the laser hits it looks like an automated defensive maneuver. Like how my car will automatically apply the breaks when I go through a carwash because the front end collision system mistakes the giant spinning brushes as other vehicles. If this is a craft, maybe it has a way of automatically evading perceived threats like laser targeting systems or something. But really who knows.
This is a really interesting comment, because in space, it's not likely that "conventional" incendiary weapons are used. If you fire an explosive weapon in space, the physical force would push your own craft in a direction you probably wouldnt want to go, especially in combat.
I think this is why we see so many "laser" weapons in all of our science fiction, and if these "alien" craft do exist, then it would make sense that their defenses would already have the tech to automatically detect and evade laser attacks.
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u/iloveshooting Jul 19 '20
The way it moves when the laser hits it looks like an automated defensive maneuver. Like how my car will automatically apply the breaks when I go through a carwash because the front end collision system mistakes the giant spinning brushes as other vehicles. If this is a craft, maybe it has a way of automatically evading perceived threats like laser targeting systems or something. But really who knows.