Imagemod requests here!

[Suicide Junkie]

For lasers, you can go with a red to blue to almost invisible at different tech levels, and make the beam 1,2,3 & 4 pixels wide.

You might try sparkly particle beams. More/brighter sparkles for higher tech.

Just remember for beams, SE4 only uses about a 4 pixel radius circle around the center of the image it make the beam.