>>530839489
I suspect nostalgia when it comes to laser orb. It used to be the base destroyer of the gods back when barrages were pretty lousy, fabricators were much less vulnerable, strafing run hadn't been injected with steroids yet, thermites sucked dick through a straw, etc etc etc. The fate of this stratagem is power creep at its most quintessential but people still want traces of that feel when throwing down a laser meant that a glorious glassy path of liberty was about to be struck right through a shitty situation.