User blog comment:Arbington/My Multiplayer Ideas/@comment-4672495-20120804061816/@comment-899316-20120804194650

Then I think they should have explained that the particle beams had been replicated for wider use. That would've shored up any problems with the lore. Unfortunately, no such explanation was ever given. It just seems a bit ridiculous to me that any old soldier can have a Prothean particle beam, when to our previous knowledge there were only a few in existence, and all of those were on the Normandy. I think that the M-333 would've been a better choice.