When this type of Tachyon Weapon was activated, photons would appear along with it. However, the photons were not fired from the weapon's muzzle; they were generated in space when the Tachyon path was activated.
As long as a Tachyon Weapon was activated, photons would inevitably appear along its damage path, as though they had materialized from nothing.
Photons could not, of course, come from nothing. Humanity simply did not yet know exactly how these photons were born. Still, they were not entirely in the dark. According to the Weapon Research Department's report, these photons were generated after the destructive Tachyons appeared, though the interval between the two was no more than a Planck Time.
The appearance of photons diverted part of the energy that had originally belonged to the destructive Tachyons, but this phenomenon was unavoidable. Scientists speculated that it might be related to a phase transition in the universe's Electromagnetic Force, perhaps accompanied by a Weak Force phase transition as well.
Fortunately, these accompanying photons were high-energy photons and possessed killing power of their own, surpassing every Laser Weapon used before.
In other words, Tachyon Weapons did not rely solely on the destructive effects of Tachyons themselves. They also inflicted damage through high-energy lasers, making them dual-damage weapons.
This physical phenomenon also meant that whenever a Tachyon Weapon fired, it would inevitably be accompanied by a beam of light.
During experiments, the Weapon Research Department observed that the instant a Tachyon Weapon activated, it looked from the perspective of an observing detector as though a pillar of light had ignited at the muzzle. The beam was not fired outward; instead, the entire line connecting the muzzle to a point three light-years away lit up at once, like a light sword.
This gave the successfully developed Tachyon Weapon a