well if u notice how the cap ships fight between themselves, the AAAf beams tend to fire at the apposing capital ships, but this is usually terran and vasudan ships, i, if not ever, see the shivan aaaf beams fire at caps. almost like ST phaser fire... the beam could be made without source code modifying, but i doubt it would target the fighters due to the type of beam a slash beam is. so maybe it could do, but why have a slash fighter beam? i mean when u get hit and ur moving, u pretty much gettin slashed cause ur moving, if it had the ability to target one point of a fighter/bomber to the other, and it would hit you, i think it would really kill you off the back due to exposure to the HP ratio from point to point... rather then a burst in one spot for a moment.