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I'm not sure, what stage provides. You can easily check with the tf tools, i.e. rosrun tf view_frames or maybe just in the documentation.

The commandline parameter is actually a general ros one that just remaps the scan topic to base_scan. When you run the node, you can list the topics is subscribes/publishes and remap them to what is available. In this case someone should publish laser on base_scan.