I dont know if this has ever been addressed in any of the Star Wars books or comics, guides or source books at all, but is there any ships in the Star Wars galaxy that have something like Warp Drives from Star Trek? or any sort of Matter Anti-Matter driven vessels that are known to exist at all? You would think that with all of the Hyperspace anomolies in The Unknown Regions and areas of the Deep Core where the stars lie very close together it would make it easier to explore areas of space where Hyperdrives make the ships move dangerously fast and risk running into something, wheres a Warp Drive which makes the ship travel at light speeds and varying warp factors which are slower and all at different levels (Like Warp 1 through Warp 9) would be ideal for traveling through areas with a lot of anomolies, being able to go through slowly and stop and adjust its course a lot and still get to a location with ease, this could really open up isolated areas to travel or exploration. Also do Star Wars ships have any weapons like Phasers? these weapons are more powerfull than lasers are and pack more power on average, but are not good against armor and stuff like that, you would think that the Star Wars universe would have developed both Warp Drives and Phasers at some point and rejected them or only used them for certain things, lasers and turbolasers have a higher rate of fire and come close enough to the power of phasers, work well against armor too, and Warp Drives while fast are very slow compared to Hyperdrives and cannot traverse the entire galaxy, and warp cores can be easily breached and that leads to a ship being destroyed, whereas a Hyperdrive breach only ruins the Hyperdrive, not the entire ship.
Phasers were mentioned in one of the Boba Fett Young Adult books. Warp drive terminology has been applied to hyperdrives in Marvel and a few other sources, but I don't think I've heard of an FTL drive that "works" in the same way as Star Trek's does. TC
Nep Masers are apparently plasma guns (like blasters/turbolasers) that also have a microwave component. The SW galaxy just has a different way of breaking physics then the warp bubble, ah faster, though somewhat less safe way, though TNG does have this one episode where Warp drives are apparently slowly destroying the galaxy. Blasters and technology adapted from them (like the turbolaser) are plasma weapons not really beam weapons and modified blaster concepts like the Disruptors also have the ability to for example disintegrate people or punch through rock formations/ship hulls etc. Deck sweepers (popular with pirates and slavers) on the other hand offer the ability of area effect stun weapons, whilst Ion blasters are designed to disable technology. Blasters are apparently just more specialized, whilst Starfleet hand phasers go for a more wide range use approach, which other Star Trek hand weapons don't always copy either, like the Klingon Disruptors or Cardassian Phasers, which also go for the "less fency, more robust" approach.
It's perfectly possible to travel at different degrees of speed while in hyperspace. This has been established as early as HttE, where HIMS Chimaera was traveling at her "flank speed" of "Point Four" (or something); the existence of flank speed suggests that there are also slower speeds.
The GFFA wouldn't need warp drive or phasers, as the technology they possess far outstrips anything in Trek. Star Wars ships can travel 20'000 light years in 3 hours (one of the LOTF books) which is 15-20 years equivalent of warp speed (Voyager, Dark Frontier). Besides, the Empire managed to negotiate the Deep Core just fine with their hyperdrives. As for phasers, well, they're nothing compared to 200 gigaton+ turbolasers (SW-AOTC:ICS). Why would the GFFA need them?
Star Wars also has disruptors, which function quite similarly to disruptors in the Star Trek canon. It's been a while since I read up on the pseudotechnological principles behind either, so I can't say they're the *same* - but both cause the slow, complete, and excruciatingly painful disintegration of the target.
The star wars laser is way more powerful than the phaser, and the hyperdrive, well star wars has lightspeed. Different genres different names.
