[Will]

For those talking about the mass of a photon: photons have properties of having mass, but only due to the fact that it is energy. If you look up the mass of other particles, such as an electron, it will give you a rest mass, meaning the particle's mass when it isn't moving anywhere. A photon's rest mass doesn't exist because it is just energy. The properties of having mass, such as momentum, come from the relationship between mass and energy.

Mesons, I know they're a class of subatomic particles, and that's about it. I think there are three types they've identified, but I only went over that stuff briefly. I'd just say a Meson BLaster would be kinda like a laser, and kinda like a lightning bolt, but not really like either of them :Þ

Phased stuff, that's dealing with waves traveling in a certain way, but the rest of it smells Trekkie.

Null-Space would skip anything because of it's nature. If you have vacuum, it is 'nothing' to us because of the lack of matter. But there is still space there, volume, energy, "the fabric of space-time" and all that good stuff. Null-Space would be absolute nothingness. No energy, no volume, nothing can exist there. So, the basic effect is there is a big battering ram of nothingness, and even a mass as dense as a black hole can't stop it. To make the Null-Space damage more "realistic", it would take a percentage damage off everything. eg. A ship has a damage resistance of 1500kT, plus 200kT armour, and 1000 shields; a Null-Space rated at 5% would take off 50 shields, 10kT armour, 75kT damage resistance. All the energy and mass are just pushed away, because nothing can go in Null-Space. That was probably confusing, but oh well.