Out of interest, what kind of campaign are you planning to run? In cramped quarters (industrial spaceships, city streets, etc.) melee is still viable.
If the player flat our refuses to carry a ranged weapon and decides to, metaphorically, try a D-Day landing by running towards the defenders with a sword then its time to make a new character. DS is space opera and I would not bend the setting out of what it (and you) wants to be just to safe a player from his own stupidity.
If the player flat our refuses to carry a ranged weapon and decides to, metaphorically, try a D-Day landing by running towards the defenders with a sword then its time to make a new character. DS is space opera and I would not bend the setting out of what it (and you) wants to be just to safe a player from his own stupidity.