Star Wars Turbolasers Are Not Even Lasers

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:01]In Star Wars, their weapons are called turbo lasers, but they are not actually lasers.

[00:00:08]Star Wars weapons are actually plasmabased particle weapons. In the law, it's described as superheated Tabana gas ionized into plasma, then wrapped inside a magnetic containment field. It's like a bottle of star hot matter being hurled across space.

[00:00:28]You see the individual bolts because each one has mass. And what makes them so destructive? Plasma carries an enormous amount of thermal and kinetic energy. A star destroyer's turbo lasers or plasma blasters contain so much destructive energy that they can literally melt the surface of a planet.

[00:00:49]The Galactic Empire has an even more destructive energy weapon that requires a ship the size of the Death Star. It's a completely different beast that uses hyper matter reactors and kyber crystals to amplify energy to absurd levels.

[00:01:05]Energy blasts that are 15 million° C.

[00:01:09]That's the temperature in the core of our sun. Plasma wrapped in fictional magnetic containers with energy density extreme enough to destroy entire worlds.

[00:01:21]Star Wars shouldn't call their weapons turbo lasers. It's misleading. They should be called plasma blasters.