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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Since this is a general Star Wars topic, I have a question to ask which I have no idea if it will come across as a joke: do laser weapons have ammo in the Star Wars universe? That would explain why that officer in the first movie didn't fire on the escape pod that 3PO and R2 got in, although I suppose that could have also come down to that officer being inexperienced and at least the Empire followed the pod to Tattooine (I guess this might also beg the question why Darth Vader didn't think to look for Luke there beyond the obvious answer that that family relation hadn't been written in yet, although maybe Vader had no sway in choosing where to look yet? Or didn't know he had a son?).

As someone who has played republic commando, afaik yes. It's more of a battery pack than a cartridge containing physical rounds though, but it's still not necessarily an unlimited thing. Like in that game, the standard blaster that troopers use have to be reloaded.

I know that's not a canon game but it would make sense to me. Even lightsabers have batteries iirc that have to be replaced every so often.