Uh, isnt that story in Tales of the Mos eisley cantina? And it is immolate, which kinda suggested cremation of the body (or at least severe burning.)Swindle1984 wrote:We also have canon statements that blasters can be set to vaporize objects as large as a corpse (in Tales of the New Republic, the wolfman vaporizes the corpse of that leech chick he met in the cantina so the Imperials won't get it).
I do recall other interesting sources:
First off: Han Solo at STar's end has "The Burning" which is a blaster set on low power used to burn the flesh off of a body until only bone remained (usually starting with the legs and then to other limbs) as a form of torture.
The novel also had a number of instancees where blaster fire was set to "needle beam" for very precise (small holes), such as IIRC when Rekkon was killed.
Secondly, the "Tales from Jabba's Palace" had a blaster whose mode was changed from "explosive burstS" to a "cutting beam" and cutting through a Krayt Dragon's belly to reach the stomach and retrieved jewels (which included vaporizing the flesh as well as cutting.)
"Shatterpoint" and The ROTS novel both mention steam explosions from "Deep tissue hits" burning/boiling the flesh. and causing explosive (mechanical) wounds (such as blwoing off limbs)
Medstar has blasters blowing legs off, but the wound is left cauterized.
Children of the JEdi has a pair of blasters set on overload being stated (state of powerpack unknown)
Betrayal by Allston has heavy blaster rifles blowing part of the head and some of the upper chest of a man (and putting a hole in the wlal behind him), as well as another shot putting a "dinner plate sized" hole through a woman's torso (and apparently cauterized ones as well.)
Tyrant's Test had a blaster bolt making a blackened crater in the "upper third" of a huuman body.
Krytos Trap has blaster fire that would have exploded Corran Horn's "heart and lungs" and reduced them to ashes if he'd not ducked - carbines were used there.
Oh and Disrutpros are stated to be able to "reduce people to ash", but they're simply more brute force blasters in a smaller package.
darth Maul Shadow hunter: had a blaster set on continuous stated as being able to slice off parts of a body
