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Travwolfe101 t1_ja1snxn wrote

Reply to comment by dbx999 in Explosions in space movies? by DemonOfTheAstroWaste

The light sabers stop after a certain length due to being contained by a field similar to a magnetic field. As for the lasers they're superheated bolts of plasma not beams of light.

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Pilot230 t1_ja25hpc wrote

My headcanon is that blaster bolts are some kind of heated carbon pellets. That would explain why they throw sparks (even when hitting a matterless force field) and leave black soot marks (on surfaces that don't contain carbon)

Still doesn't explain how they deflect and ricochet in one piece

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DarthGiorgi t1_ja2xgjo wrote

They shoot superheated gas.

Essentially, they are plasma weaponry

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