[arthurtuxedo]

Yes, you can easily game the system and get 1,000 starting points with basically no drawbacks, but you're ignoring opportunity cost. Those thousand points could have been used for a lot of other stuff, like organic, crystalline, etc.

Also, twice the weapons for the same total damage is advantageous vs. fighters, and increases the chance of hitting with at least one of those weapons.

I agree that Telekinetic Projectors share the "way better than the other weapons" spot, but I still say Mesons slightly edge them out, all things considered.