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 1 Table of contents 1.1 Ranged weapons 1.2 Melee weapons 1.3 Starship and planetary weapons and defenses 1.4 Sensors and communications 1.5 Security devices 1.6 General equipment 2 Cover gallery 2.1 In other languages

Table of contentsEdit

• Introduction
• A Guide to Major Manufacturers

Ranged weaponsEdit

• 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

Melee weaponsEdit

• 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)

Starship and planetary weapons and defensesEdit

• 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

Sensors and communicationsEdit

• 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)

Security devicesEdit

• 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)

General equipmentEdit

• 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)

Cover galleryEdit

Essential Guides
First generation Characters · Vehicles and Vessels · Weapons and Technology · Planets and Moons · Droids · Chronology · Alien Species · Episode I (canceled) Second generation New Characters · New Vehicles and Vessels · New Weapons and Technology · New Chronology · New Droids · New Alien Species Third generation The Force · Atlas · Warfare · Reader's Companion · Untitled updated Essential Guide to Characters
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