The attributes have it described as an energy weapon, but its type in the <Weapon> tag is “missile.” It isn’t really a big deal, all in all, except that it triggers the ICX and Longreach — which looks rather odd against what you would expect to be a beam weapon.

george moromisato 15 Aug 2015:

It should be possible to define a shot as a beam even though we use the "missile" param. Need to check it out.

george moromisato 16 Feb 2016:

Fixed by switching to "beam" type. Also fixed the Ringers positron lancer, which had the same problem.