I think it would be nice if there were weapons unique to certain races. Paul said something about special support modules for ships and this got me thinking that there might be a place for race specific weapons.
The other thing i noticed while designing my ships is, that every race currently uses the same weapon models. I know that it can be a lot of work to create new models for every race, but there are already unique shipparts for every race and weapon models in line with the different art styles, combined with race specific weapons will help to diversify them further.
Maybe even have different animations depending on who uses them. For example lasers fired by a Human ship would look different than the ones fired by Altarians etc.
What do you think?