xytan4 said:

I despise wookiepedia. Just take a look their blaster article, it's a jumbled self contradictory mess. They explain the same process twice with different wording, on the same page! I tried editing it several times and it was just reverted and they banned my IP after the third attempt to edit. So I gave up and will never visit the site again.

The fact there's a lengthy article on blasters at all is kinda silly. Here's my attempt at a more concise article.

BLASTER: (n)

Y'know, a blaster. "Zap Zap"