The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology

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.

Table of contents

 * Introduction
 * A Guide to Major Manufacturers

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, ZX miniature flame projector)
 * 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 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)

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

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)

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 (Athakam/RSMA bioscan unit)
 * 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 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)