The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
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| The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology | |
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| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) |
Allan Kausch (Lucasfilm) and Steve Saffel (Del Rey) |
| Illustrator(s) | |
| Publisher | |
| Publish date |
November 4, 1997 |
| Type |
Paperback |
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The third book in Del Rey's Essential Guide series, The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology features an in-depth look at one hundred different devices, ranging from thermal detonators and Wookiee bowcasters to Lobot's cyborg implant and the Empire's top-secret cloaking devices.
Contents |
[edit] Table of contents
- Introduction
- A Guide to Major Manufacturers
[edit] Ranged weapons
- Blasters (DH-17 blaster pistol)
- Blaster rifle (E-11 blaster rifle)
- Heavy blaster pistol (DL-44 heavy blaster pistol)
- Sporting blaster (Defender sporting blaster)
- Light repeating blaster (T-21 light repeating blaster)
- E-Web repeating blaster
- Jawa ionization blaster
- Bowcaster
- Beam tube (Emperor-4 beam tube)
- Ssi-ruuvi paddle beamer
- Disruptor (DX-2 disruptor pistol, DXR-6 disruptor rifle)
- Sonic pistol (Sd-77 sonic pistol, Sg-82 sonic rifle)
- Wrist rockets (MM9 rocket system)
- Stokhli spray stick
- Projectile weapons (Oriolanis Striker Projectile Pistol, Dressellian projectile rifle)
- Flame projector (C-22 flame carbine, CR-24 flame rifle)
- Dart shooter (Stealth-2VX palm shooter, PRP-502 hold-out dart shooter)
- Flechette launcher (FWG-5 flechette pistol, FC-1 flechette launcher)
- Missile tube (PLX-2M portable missile launcher)
- Thermal detonator (Class-A thermal detonator)
- Grenades (G-20 Glop grenade, C-22 fragmentation grenade, WW-41 CryoBan grenade)
- Grenade mortar (MobileMortar-3)
- Blaster artillery
- Anti-vehicle artillery
- Anti-infantry battery
[edit] Melee weapons
- Lightsaber
- Exar Kun's lightsaber
- Gaderffii
- Force pike (Controller FP)
- Vibro-ax (Clan Groogrun vibro-ax, BD-1 Cutter vibro-ax)
- Vibroblade (Treppus-2 vibroblade, Vibroknuckler)
- Ryyk blades
- Stun baton (Merr-Sonn stun baton, Merr-Sonn KZZ riot armor)
- Individual field disruptor (Evasive-13 individual field disruptor)
[edit] Starship and planetary weapons and defenses
- Proton torpedoes (MG7-A proton torpedo, MG7 proton torpedo launcher)
- Concussion missiles (ST2 concussion missile, ST2 concussion missile rack)
- Laser cannons (KX9 laser cannon, AG-2G quad laser cannon)
- Deflector shield generator (ISD-72x shield generator dome, Chempat shield generator)
- Ion cannons (NK-7 ion cannon)
- Tractor beam projector (Q7 tractor beam projector)
- Turbolasers (XX-9 heavy turbolaser)
- Proton grenade (7-PrG proton grenade)
- Diamond boron missile (MS-15 diamond boron missile)
- Cluster bomb (CL-3 antistarfighter cluster bomb)
- Mine (Defender ion mine, 3HX3 repulsorlift mine)
- Planetary ion cannons (v-150 Planet Defender)
- Planetary turbolaser (w-165 planetary turbolaser)
- Cloaking device (prototype cloak field generator)
- Orbital Nightcloak
- Planetary shields (SLD-26 planetary shield generator)
- Superlaser
- Sun Crusher
- Galaxy Gun
[edit] Sensors and communications
- Starship sensor array (Universal transceiver package and "Screamer" active jammer, ANq-51 sensor array computer, Txs-431 flight control console)
- Com-scan (OrC-19 com-scan integrator console)
- Electrotelescope (VXI-3 electrotelescope)
- Portable scanner (EnhanceScan general-purpose scanner)
- Sensor tag (SureSnoop sensor tag)
- Sensor beacon (SE-Vigilant automated sensor beacon)
- Sensor jammers (4x-Phantom short-range sensor jammer, 220-SIG tactical combat jammer)
- Homing beacon (XXt-26 S-thread tracker)
- Comlinks (C1 personal comlink, 3-MAL personal comlink, PAC20 visual wrist comm)
- Cybernetic implant comlink/pager (At-cyb husher mike)
- Subspace transceivers (Frequency Agile subspace transceiver)
- HoloNet transceiver (Hologram projection pod)
[edit] Security devices
- Stun cuffs (SC-401 stun cuffs)
- Stun nets (RL-40 stun net launcher)
- Slaving collars (Thalassian security collar)
- Nerve disruptor (Agonizer-6 nerve disruptor)
- Universal energy cage
- Man trap (R-TechAp man trap)
- Automated laser trap (Class VI automated laser projector)
- Rank cylinder
- Electronic lock breaker (OutlawTech lock breaker)
- Security scanners (57C holocam)
- Bioscan
- Holographic image disguiser (CQ-3.9x holographic image disguiser)
- Molecularly bonded armor and anticoncussion field (Molecular-bond armor sheath and Rampart-class anticoncussion generator)
[edit] General equipment
- Common hand tools, (F-187 fusioncutter, ReliaCharger power calibrator, FastTurn-3 hydrospanner)
- Breath mask (Roamer-6 breath mask)
- Vaporator (GX-8 water vaporator)
- Electrobinoculars (Model TD2.3 electrobinoculars)
- Beamdrill (G2-GE beamdrill)
- Glow rod (Industrial glow rod)
- Recording rod (PersonalAssistant-4x recording rod)
- Harpoon and tow cable (Power harpoon launcher)
- Hologram projector (CS-Mark 12 holoprojector)
- Jet, rocket, and repulsor packs (Z-6 jetpack)
- Medpac (FastFlesh medpac, GLiS emergency medpac)
- Bacta tank
- Remote (Marksman-H combat remote)
- Seeker (Mark VII Inquisitor seeker)
- Datapad (Companion2000 datapad)
- Cyborg unit (Borg Construct Aj^6)
- Carbon-freezing chamber (Class three carbon-freezing chamber)
- Holocron (Jedi holocron)
- Ssi-ruuvi Entechment Rig
- Organic gill
- Magwit's Mystifying Hoop
- Infrared motion sensor (NiteSite infrared motion sensor)
