A blaster bolt is essentially equivalent to a lightsaber blade, just without the hilt. But as I’ve mentioned before, magnetic reconnection is unavoidable when two magnetically confined plasmas meet.

I’ve now worked out how feasible the blaster weapons used by, among others, the Star Wars character Han Solo are – and how they compare with lightsabers. In fact, real life versions of these ...

Han Solo's handheld blaster pistol is often misunderstood to be some sort of laser gun, but this class of weapon in the Star Wars canon actually uses plasma energy.

Han Solo’s BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol on display at Star Wars Launch Bay at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Quarax/wikipedia, CC BY-SA Coherent masses of plasma and their associated ...

A blaster bolt is essentially equivalent to a lightsaber blade, just without the hilt. But as I've mentioned before, magnetic reconnection is unavoidable when two magnetically confined plasmas meet.