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The Range of Range

“You will hear it said that lasers have ‘a pathetically low range’ and are ‘suitable only for point defense and the inner engagement envelope’. To put this statement into its proper context, one must understand the proper scale of starship engagements; i.e., that the pathetically low range in question

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Trope-a-Day: Laser Blade

Laser Blade: Dear gods, no. Firstly and perhaps most importantly, light does not work that way. Most specifically, it does not stop. Apart from that, you could try and fake it with a hot plasma bottle – if you want a melee weapon that sets everything around it, including you, on