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The shot from a PPC is a plasma cloud of protons and as such it will have an intense electrostatic field around it. If multiple PPC shots are simultaniously fired, the charged clouds will interact and strongly repel each other, causing the clouds to defocus and have their hit points move apart. What is now a multiple pulse to one location could become something more akin to an LBX-10 shot.

The ionized trail left by a given PPC shot might also influence the next shot, if it takes place within a short period of time. You could set a requirement that the chainfire be longer than a certain amount of time between shots or the accuracy significantly degrades.

High power lasers would act similarly, in that a laser beam is visible only because the power level is so high that it heats the air and ionizes it and makes for a glow that we can see. This heating of the air is well known to defocus a laser beam and also to degrade the accuracy of the laser. It may also create the same issue of the ionized trail degrading the accuracy of the next shot noted above.

In this way, and without having to make any alterations in the heat side of the equation, you can take some of the sting out of the high alpha strike in a reasonable and physics supportable way.