Star Wars weapons

>> > Anyone care to argue that lasers have kick, like in Star Wars? Hmmmm? |->
>> Well, you could argue that those weren't lasers, since you could watch the
>> 'bolts' fly across the screen.  Certainly subsonic.  Of course maybe you
>> meant some other 'lasers' I forgot.
>Who knows?  They played enough havok with current physical theory in
>those movies that you could probably justify anything... :)
>Jack Dietz.

(Sorry about the lack of attributions, I couldn't figure them all out.)
  I always thought of the hand weapons in Star Wars as 'blasters', by which
I mean a weapon that actually launches some sort of physical projectile.  Kinda
like a plasma pistol.  Any guesses as to what tech level would be needed to
make such a thing in MT.  I.E. is there any good correlation between the tech
level at which a rifle (large version of a weapon) comes out and when the
equivalent pistol comes out?

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