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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.
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I didn't think we were /that/ far into ABY, maybe I misread it, I was thinking maybe 80-100 years