But it would be used in situations where it was required with certain restraints put in place to limit collateral damage. Unlike space they needed to limit the destructive power of their weapons when conducting missions in tight proximity to potential friendly forces.
They designed a shield defense similar to a suits outer shield and added the appropriate circuity to control them. They decided since the gun was not actually physically firing projectiles and missiles it did not require a solid base to handle recoil and to stabilize the firing aiming system. It was designed into a sphere with four targeting interfaces thus allowing it to engage four targets at the same time. Essentially, each of the targeting interfaces was a slightly striped down version of the robot brain and target assessment and actuation systems. With each one being fully capable of understanding tactics and best firing solutions to achieve designated mission parameters. It could even distinguish between friendly and hostile targets. It would float at whatever height it was deployed with, and the shield would protect the entire thing. It was by far the most complicated of objects to be available for deployment, other than robots but it still did not require that much energy to deploy it. They did decide to prebuild them to make it easier. Several hundred were built and stored with port addresses. The new gun was added to the interface further expanding the capabilities of the individual team members and the system as a whole.