DC-17 hand blaster/Legends

The DC-17 hand blaster was a light repeating blaster pistol wielded by the clone troopers of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. The DC-17 hand blaster was most notably used by ARC trooper captains, clone trooper commanders, and jet troopers. It was a smaller version of the DC-15 blaster, and shared many similarities with the DC-15s side arm blaster used by clone commandos. They were carried in quick-release holsters, and elite clone troopers sometimes wielded dual pistols in battle&mdash; a trait reminiscent of Jango Fett himself.

History


During the Battle of Muunilinst, ARC captain Fordo, leader of the Muunilinst 10, used twin DC-17s in combat against San Hill's forces, and holstered it the same way as Jango Fett would have by twirling the right blaster around his finger a few times. With these high-powered pistols, Fordo downed scores of battle droids. He again wielded his twin DC-17s against marauding droid forces during the Battle of Coruscant. Commander Bly also carried two krayt dragon pearl-handled DC-17 pistols alongside his favored DC-15 blaster rifle. Both Clone trooper captain Rex and Clone commander Fox carried twin DC-17 blaster pistols in battle, but also utilized the more standard DC-15A blaster rifles. Another famous user of the DC-17 hand blaster was the Null ARC captain Ordo. One incident in which he used his blasters to great effect was when he, along with Omega Squad, Delta Squad, Sergeant Kal Skirata, former Sergeant Walon Vau, and Jedi Generals Bardan Jusik and Etain Tur-Mukan, raided a landing strip in order to expose a terrorist operation. The clone jet troopers as well as the anti-troopers during the Kamino Uprising all utilized modified DC-17 commando pistols as a personal side-arm weapon. They were later used by Imperial shock troopers around the time of the Battle of Yavin.

The DC-17 blaster pistol should not to be confused with the DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon System, though it did share its designation with the larger weapon for a reason - they shared many of their interior components, a fact which helped explain the DC-17 hand blaster's unusually high stopping power and firing rate. This fact was widely appreciated by the users of the weapon, who tended to know them inside and out as part of their training, and so ARCs in particular tended to look down on uninformed people who puzzled over the similarity of the naming for two such apparently different weapons.

Appearances

 * Republic Commando: Hard Contact
 * The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hidden Enemy
 * Star Wars: Lethal Alliance
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hidden Enemy
 * Star Wars: Lethal Alliance
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
 * Star Wars: Lethal Alliance
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)