Hard-sound gun

The hard-sound gun was a type of weapon that used loud or painfully-pitched noise to injure, disorientate or incapacitate opponents.

During the Clone Wars, hard-sound guns were deployed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems against Jedi Knights. These weapons consisted of small, hand-held antennae, producing sounds that were loud enough to cause physical pain and severe disorientation, burst eardrums, and even knock over astromech droids. These weapons were wielded by some of the Confederacy assassin droids carried by Asajj Ventress aboard her personal starship.

Decades later, in 40 ABY at the start of the Second Corellian Insurrection, at least one pair of astromech droids, apparently R5s, were modified to carry similar sonic weapons to defend Centerpoint against Jedi saboteurs. These do not seem to have burst human eardrums, and may have been designed more for incapacitating opponents than injuring them.

Appearances

 * ''Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
 * ''Betrayal