In several Qwark vid-comics, Qwark would use a weapon called the blaster, which fired powerful energy shots and could hold up to twenty or fifty ammo. Captain Starshield used a blaster on Fractis to defeat several Kragmites and also in combat against a Cantor shortly after helping the people of Calzon. In Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty Corsair space pirates utilized blasters. In Into the Nexus the weapons used by Ranged Thugs and Jetpack Thugs were referred to as blasters, they fired similar yellow energy bursts, but looked different from the original Blaster.