User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-10700122-20140701134252/@comment-12161342-20140701135004

Please try to post this AS A GODDAMNED REPLY instead of a new topic chain. Seriously?

Anyway, magic is the answer. Except im not being a douche and using it without limits. If you read my wall of text(which this shoulda been a reply to), you see that the magic requires many human lives. Which means that if we stall out, we would be unable to repair our ships or counter anything. Plus, comets have explosive types of ice, which would be the propellants for the guns. And no, this explosive ice generally wouldnt create much heat (unlike normal explosives), it would just rapidly sublimate into an expansive gas. Basically, these are pneumatic ice guns). Also, ice is kind of transparent, so while a laser might do damage, most of the beam would pass harmlessly through.