User blog comment:Tanooki1432/The Questions of the Age (Warning! May result in Nerd Rage!)/@comment-217683-20100816024437

Not true at all. In ROTJ, long-range use of turbolasers can clearly be seen from scenes in the Emperor's throne room while the battle is raging in space. And let's not forget superlasers. After all, we know (again fron ROTJ) that superlasers can 'reach out and touch' enemy vessels from quite some distance, and the Eclipse class SSD I mentioned? It's main gun just happens to be a superlaser. Blasters are short range weapons, this is true. They also are not the weapons that most capital ships in Star Wars use, now are they?