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wow, i used to have the original old school (clicking knees) toy of this 
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OH, OH do this SW rebels version!
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What is the difference between a laser and a blaster?
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a blaster has a blasterpack with some kind of energetic material (usually tibanna gas) that is disturbed.
A laser cannon uses power from an external source. The laser cannons draw power from the main reactor while the blaster cannons don't.
A blaster has the advantage that it doesn't draw power from the main reactor but the disadvantage is that you have to replace the blasterpack when it's empty. A laser cannon doesn't have that problem but because it draws upon the main reactor of the vehicle for power, less is available to power the machine.
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That sounds a lot like Star Trek, not Star Wars.
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what do you mean?
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Star Trek is about technology and exploration. They have to explain how everything works.
Star Wars is essentially a fairy tail. We do not need to know how a lightsaber works or how many minutes a parsec is.
We just need to see what everything does. We where informed that turbolasers have problems hitting fighters, because they are build to fight big ships and that is all we need to know.
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I guess you're right.
Star wars starts after all with "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away"
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A Blaster is a heavier Particle Beam weapon.
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And lasers are not?
I ask because the shots look the same in the movies.
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You generally only notice the difference in other medias like the games. Heavier particle weapons causes a fair bit of explosive damage, lighter blasters are used because they can attain a higher rate of fire than their laser counterparts. Lasers requires large power generators so generally only appear on vehicles, they are most best used for anti-structure or anti-vehicle.
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According to wookiepedia, originally the terms "blaster" and "laser" were synonymous.
However, as Star Wars has evolved, the term blaster became the term for particle beam weapons and laser was the term used for photon-based weapons.
Article:
starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Blasteβ¦
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Is that why the lasers in Revenge of the Sith use cartouches?
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You know, I wonder about that myself.
I assumed the Revenge of the Sith weapons were Turbo-Lasers, and thus they probably use up a lot of the gas required for generating the particle beam, but that is pure conjecture on my part.Β Perhaps someone here knows?
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Turbolasers are too heavy of a weapon and can only be used of structures and larger starship. The only laser cannons seen in Revenge of the Sith are the ones mounted on the various vehicles we seen since lasers are out-dated when it comes to solders since Blasters can achieve a much higher fire-rate. In easy terms think of a Laser weapon as an bolt action rifle and a Blaster as a modern Assault Rifle, makes it easier to understand why lasers were phased out from being used by soldiers.
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Hence why turbolasers are the preferred weapon for capital ship to capital ship combat...but, slight correction; laser cannons ARE still used in space combat, just that laser cannons are preferred to strike fast-moving targets like fighters-- a good example of this (what turbolasers were good for, or rather, were NOT) was the trench run at the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope; the very reason Darth Vader went out there AT ALL, was because the Rebel X-wings and Y-wings were both too small for the Death Star's turbolasers to acquire clearly, and even when they DID, they were moving faster than the turbolaser turrets could traverse to track them (though a fighter going in a straight line, no jigging and weaving, was more than easy to pick off-- Jek Porkins found THAT out the hard way).
For further proof, look at Wookieepedia, and the specifications for a lot of larger capital ships (like the Executor-class Star Dreadnought, or the Viscount-class Star Defender, just for two examples for each side--though there are DOZENS of other examples, heavy and light ships alike, military and civilian)-- they both carry a battery of laser cannons (heavy, albeit, but they serve the same purpose) for anti-starfighter screening; the Imperial Lancer *anti-starfighter* frigate, had twenty quad *laser* cannons as its prime armament-- and for an example that is CANON, those quad weapons on the Millennium Falcon? Quad *lasers*. Plus, you see a starfighter in Star Wars, you can almost certainly bet the rent on the fact that any directed-energy weapon its carrying is a laser cannon.
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I never said lasers weren't used on ships.... I said lasers were phased out of "personnel"use as in a soldier carried weapons.Β
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So turbolasers blasters and not lasers?
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turbolasers are laser cannons that have enhancers in them to make them more powerful.
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Turbolasers are lasers but due to their size they only appear on structures and capital ships Β since they require massive generators. Soldiers use Blasters (particle beam) because they can achieve higher rate of fire than handheld Lasers. Handheld Lasers are redundant and ineffective compared to Blasters.
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I believe lasers require an external powersource and are therefore impractical for small scale use. However on ships Β they are better because ships have a powersource anyway.
The separatists used massive blaster cannons on their warships. They did that so that there would be more power available for shielding and propulsion, as well as small laser cannons. They did need a large number of shells though to operate those massive cannons.
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Thank you SeraphimD-Kiryu, for the info, that does make a lot sense.
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I had a dream about these once.Β Three of them faced off against a gunmetal colored Berserk Fury that had the Geno Saurer's cannons on it's back instead of it's usual blades.Β The Berserk Fury won handily, using it's CPG to destroy two and disable the third, which it finished off with its back guns.
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