Blasters and phasers are particle weapons, not laser weapons, so their beams should travel slower than the speed of light.<br><br>Blaster fire plasma bolts (which is normally, but not always, created via ionisation instead of via heating) and are only referred to as lasers as an inaccurate (like how people call the graphene in pencils lead or call microwave ovens microwaves); turbo lasers and laser cannons are also particle weapons rather than lasers (they are just big blasters).<br><br>Phasers use fictional particle called nadion particles and the disruptors used in Star Trek are also particles weapons.