If your ship feels "drunken" in combat (hard to aim), check your Fixed Gun convergence in the research tab or adjust your ship's center of mass.
StarCom units manufactured between 2010 and 2018 (and some later analog models) suffer from what the electronics world calls "capacitor plague." These small, cylindrical components regulate voltage to the audio processing chip. When they age or overheat, they dry out. When they dry out, they stop filtering DC ripple. my drunken starcom fixed
Static. Then breathing.