[quote=@Galgarion]
And again, in the star wars verse, Han uses a DL-44, that's a blaster that was designed in the early early years of the clone war era
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makes sense.  They've have blaster tech for 20k+ years.  Plus, one of my characters motivations is that society is holding people and tech back, and that tech is stagnant, so a several hundred year old blaster could still be viable.