1 and 3: Any world with a noticeable population of gadgeteers (which includes most four-color supers worlds) is going to have the "superscience" modifier on its TL. Thus, IST's TL would be 8-9^, and blasters would be a two-TL early development - unlikely but not impossible.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012