Which I should have realized a LOOOOONG time ago -_-
Image is from one of the old GSB trailers, the 2nd one I think.
See that beam that the top Alliance cruiser’s shield deflected? O.O
High-resistance shield, low-penetration beam, the usual. I don’t follow your point of why this should be noteworthy. What about it? Thanks.
maybe its a hardpoint that connect to two turrets, or one beam behind he other that happened to fire at the same time and get deflected, they seem to get further apart a tiny tiny bit to the left, but it looks like a double beam 
That is called casuality, it is just a beam weapon mounted in a double hardpoint, fired at the same time (as every beam multi hardpoint), the only casuality is the identical deflected beam angle 
If you’re wondering about them getting closer together, there is an attribute for beam weapons that determines if multi-hardpoint shots merge or not.
there is?
what?
Quick question gets a quick and easy answer: convergence
If only everything else was so easy 
convergent beams don’t look like that 
what I’m highlighting is a (what looks like) double beam.
wait, so i just put
convergence = 1?
is it capitalized?
is it 1 or yes?
it’s 1, but it’s not a double beam, it will make beam laz0rz with multiple attached hardpoints fire with a Death Star-esque effect.
Ah, I may have misinterpreted the attribute then. It’s one that I haven’t actually tried myself. It’s suddenly sounding more interesting though.
yeh, the Swarm uses it (I forget which weapon XP)
Currently there’s no way to have a definite double beam in the game (unless you mod the beam graphics)
swarm uses it for disruptor beam, Its a very interesting effect, especially if you use thicker beams…
From what I see, the beams are slightly farther apart on the edge of the screen than where they hit the shields. It also looks like the left-side ships are Federation (hard to tell, since the only one in frame is in the middle of blowing up, but it looks like a Puma or Gazelle hull), in which case this could be a beam coming from the forward hardpoint of a Fox frigate - two turrets, really close together. At long range the two beams are very nearly parallel.
But that’s just what I see here.
Yeah, it’s the good 'ol feds. And I agree now–they are slightly farther apart. But, based on the turret location (if it was a double beam), the beams actually could be farther apart at the end. As far as I know, the beams wouldn’t change their length to meet the other beam’s end. The turret would fire, and the top beam would go a biiiit further than the bottom one.