But it's also a wave guide: see these markings? (I peer at the indicated runes.)

The AI shifted aim slightly and began hammering at a second, reserve wave guide...and then at a third when the second shield collapsed as well.

There were points, carefully screened and camouflaged, where those wave guides were exposed to space.

His faithful cutters made short work of the multiplex feed system, chewing up cables and laser wave guides alike.

"Target wave guides amidships, lock, and fire," she said, the verbal order backed by a mental command uplinked through to her fighter's AI.