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I feel I'm being a little pedantic here, but how could a las-carbine possibly have a shorter range than a Lasgun? A Las-beam is a beam of light and light is the fastest travelling visible object in the universe. Hence upon pulling the trigger, the Las-beam would reach a Guardsman's target instantly, with fractional or no loss of energy. Hence range would be the same as the sheer range of a laser is monumental and dissipation of the laser would only really happen over a vast distant - not just over the battlefield. I know this is a bit pedantic, but it possibly shouldn't be included as it may be mis-leading to readers.
While the range on a beam of light may well be vast, energy does tend to "bloom" in an atmosphere. For a real-world example of light blooming that you can test easily, take a torch or flashlight and try shining it along the street, towards the end of your garden/driveway, etc; obviously the flashlight's beam is nothing like a lasgun's, but it's still very easy to test.
In terms of 40K, this means we can sort-of-handwave the range thing by pointing out that the lascarbine's smaller and therefore less able to focus a beam to the same extent as a larger lasgun. - [[User:Lucinus|Lucinus]] 21:08, 16 July 2013 (CEST)
