I see that it is a piercing heavy weapon, with crazy good arcs. The knock back isn't good for pushing the ship away from you, but rather for spinning the enemy ship. It's a pretty good support gun.
It does have some really wide arcs. I don't know how that works into the game yet.
Pretty good range. I think it's raycast, so really easy to hit with.
It does decent armor strip. I do believe it outstrips an enemy engineer's hull repair.
It works great on a Spire. Doesn't seem to work great on a goldfish.