• Akagigahara@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I’m sure they could raid some here and there. Considering Tattooine is Outer Rim and considered dangerous, I wouldn’t be surprised if the villages or homesteads they raid would contain some.

    Of course, this would make the use here a bit weird but maybe they used the blasters for fast moving targets? I image they’d also attack smaller caravans of speeders or something, and for those a slugthrower might not be fast enough.

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      4 hours ago

      Not sure what the canon says, but it really seems like blaster bolts travel considerably more slowly than a high power rifle bullet, so I’d still pick the slug thrower.