Upgradeable kinetic guns, small kinetic charge buff

You can reduce kinetic gun's cooldown by tweaking or upgrading it's thermal exchanger. 
Maximally upgraded gun's cooldown is 8, standard is 20.

You can increase kinetic gun's range with plasma sheets (up to 5, current is 3), but this can make your gun unsafe.

Kinetic charge is buffed a bit and can damage structures and turfs around the kinetic blast (but not station walls or mobs). This makes kinetic guns a bit better in mining.