Answering "do lasers and PPCs fire together?": in the pod, grouping was
a PILOT CHOICE. MechWeapon message handlers id 9 'ConfigureMappables'
(FUN_004b9550) and id 10 'ChooseButton' (FUN_004b95b8), handler table
@0x511860 (names read from the exe): ConfigureMappables binds the
weapon's fireImpulse@0x31C to controls-mapper fire-channel #N (roster
slot 0; vtable +0x38 register / +0x3c unregister / +0x44 choose),
ChooseButton = the in-cockpit re-binding. Weapons sharing a button fire
together. The port's SPACE=energy / CTRL=missiles split is a stand-in
default; the authentic per-button channels are a tracked follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
