User blog comment:Y0ki3GGNET/On RP, Chaos, and retaking the AIF!/@comment-27822653-20140924143012/@comment-11135771-20140924232742

Guns work fine in space, but at long ranges they are extremely easy to dodge. Lasers are greatly more effective if you can make them powerful enough.

And yes, shields can be made in BSC. They eat your percentage like crazy though, which prevents them from being OP.