Blaster

Blasters are ranged weapons that fire a pulse of coherent plasma, which causes massive damage to organic beings and significantly affects armor.

Blasters move an energetic gas to a chamber where it is heated into plasma, and then a magnetic field pushes it through collimators, which turn the plasma into a coherent pulse of energy. After the collimators, the bolt is accelerated by a magnetic field to a very high velocity.

Blasters are best defended against by energy screens, but kinetic screens also help dissipate incoming blaster fire (but not much).

Blasters are only used by the theodarans