Your arms and back are sore from swinging around that ridiculously heavy thing. You tell the smith you'd like a lighter version. Somehow you end up with something called a REFRACTORIZER, which can charge up a laser attack by gathering ambient light. You tell the smith that this isn't exactly what you meant. They tell you that you should have been more specific.
You're starting to think your weapons maker has some sort of problem with the fact that you hate using weapons.