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I'd be cool with lasers as long as they're done right.

Lasers, even military grade ones, are not very powerful.  It takes a laser the size the of a freight container just to melt through a steel beam in under five minutes; you could do more damage with a blowtorch if you could get close enough.

You have to add 3500 years of technical advancements tho....

And also 3500 years of advancement for projectile weapons, but we don't see any of that. We know that many worlds have had several major disasters that reduced their tech level significantly, so it's not unreasonable that there would be technology from our near-future as well. If there are guns from the late 2nd millennium, then it stands to reason that there would be laser weapons from the early 3rd millennium.

And while we're at it, why not add a greater variety of weaponry? In addition to high-accuracy, low-damage laser weapons somewhat short-ranged (because the plasma confinement would fail at longer distances), low-accuracy, high-damage plasma weapons (as suggested by NephilimNexus), decent-damage, low rate-of-fire, significant range Gauß weaponry (which fires electromagnetically accelerated kinetic projectiles). Some of the current projectile weapons could be replaced by those "advanced" variants so there aren't too many weapons (for example a Gauß sniper rifle instead of the current one).