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Well, ever heard of the pinch effect? Say, you use a inductive gauss gun with the target of inducing enough electric current in the projectile to melt it into plasma and then make use of the pinch effect to keep it from contacting the barrel and accelerate if further using more coils and lenghtening the pinch effect, you could actually build a plasma cannon that works. However, the projectile would be very, very fast and would in fact hit almost instantly on the ranges fights in ED are fought (We are talking speeds exceeding 4000 m/s). Basically what you would get is a very hard hitting weapon with incredible projectile speed and decent cooling (if the coils happen to be made of superconductors that is, which they probably are considering we have superconductors now and ED takes place over 1000 years from now) that takes and incredible amount of energy to fire. What we currently have is nothing alike.