~~Intentional. Justification: My fire looks weird - #6 by InterAction_studios Sorry, I understood wrong. I tried also rotating the firing flare to be horizontal, but it didn’t look good so both charging and firing flares rotate together with your spaceship. Fixed in v.37 
Bug
Known – although I wouldn’t call it intended. It’s just that (as it’s currently implemented), it’s a pain to maintain charge across different power levels, so I’m waiting to see if that’s important enough of an issue to warrant fixing 
It is eventually going to be upgradeable (the shop even says so). For this initial outing, however, I wanted people to comment the power progression starting all the way from zero.