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The harpoon and tow cable, or power harpoon, was an improvised weapon system developed by Beryl Chiffonage and employed by the Rebel Alliance during the Battle of Hoth using tactics invented by Chiffonage and Luke Skywalker.

Operated by the gunner onboard a snowspeeder, the harpoon, tipped with a fusion disk, would be fired at the leg of an Imperial AT-AT walker. The pilot of the snowspeeder would then make several rotations around the walker to wrap the flexisteel cable around its legs. The walker would then become ensnared and fall over, effectively neutralized. Harpoons and tow cables were able to bring down a few AT-ATs at Hoth and were the Alliance's most effective method of dealing with the lethal Imperial walkers.

Besides the harpoon and tow cables themselves, there were also some types of weapons, such as the tow-cable bomb, that were developed specifically for power harpoons in mind.^[1]

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SourcesEdit

• Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition
• Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, Second Edition
• The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
• Rogue Squadron: Official Nintendo Player's Guide
• Star Wars Gamemaster Screen, Revised
• Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Hoth Limited (Card: Power Harpoon)
• Star Wars Trading Card Game – The Empire Strikes Back (Card: Go for the Legs) (Picture only)
• Star Wars Trading Card Game – The Empire Strikes Back (Card: Lieutenant Wes Janson)
• Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 115 (HAR1-2, Power Harpoon)
• Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 10
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

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