User blog comment:Tanooki1432/The Questions of the Age (Warning! May result in Nerd Rage!)/@comment-122.111.183.121-20100816023701/@comment-164.58.100.2-20120307190706

There ships do have long range weapons i am am not counting the death stars main gun or the Eclipse(star wars super star destroyer) they just don't have very many long range laser weapons and thos are the weapons you see the most and the reason for that is accuracy problems most ships are moving at high speeds and long range fighting just over heats guns so let the energy shields take the brunt of the enemys random firing and then hit them with supirior fire power.