actually i had the crazy idea of making a weapon animation of vipers launching from the ship and firing on tagets then landing, all as one single gun weapon.
this gets a thumbs up from me, that would be crazy cool to see! you could even make three different renders of the ani, one with them shooting bullets for mass drivers, then one with lasers, and a third for missiles... could be the exact same ani with just different weapons shooting from the vipers... but then that might be a bit too much to chew eh?