The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology

The tenth book in Del Rey's Essential Guide series, Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology was the updated version of The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology. This book featured new full color and three-dimensional illustrations of over two hundred different devices, ranging from thermal detonators and Wookiee bowcasters to Lobot's cyborg implant and the Empire's superweapon devices. The book added many devices from The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and the New Jedi Order series of books.

Table of contents

 * Introduction
 * Timeline
 * Vital Statistics
 * Historical Perspective

A Guide to Major Manufacturers

 * Arakyd Industries
 * Athakam Medtech/RSMA
 * Baktoid Armor Workshop
 * BioTech Industries
 * BlasTech Industries
 * Borstel Galactic Defense
 * Carbanti United Electronics
 * Chedak Communications
 * Chempat Engineered Defenses
 * Chiewab Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals Company
 * CoMar Weapons
 * Corellian Engineering Corporation
 * Corporate Sector Authority
 * Crozo Industrial Products
 * CryonCorp
 * Czerka
 * Drearian Defense Conglomerate
 * Fabritech
 * FreiTek, Inc.
 * Golan Arms
 * Imperial Department of Military Research
 * Industrial Automaton
 * Jedi Order
 * Kuat Drive Yards
 * Loronar Corporation
 * Merr-Sonn Munitions
 * MicroThrust Processors
 * Neuro-Saav Corporation
 * Nubian Design Collective
 * Santhe/Sienar Technologies
 * The Sith
 * SoroSuub
 * Taim & Bak
 * TaggeCo
 * Ubrikkian Transports
 * Yuuzhan Vong
 * Zaltin Bacta Corporation

Ranged weapons

 * Blasters (DH-17 blaster pistol)
 * WESTAR-34 blaster pistol
 * DL-44 heavy blaster pistol
 * Q2 hold-out blaster
 * Blaster rifle (E-11 blaster rifle)
 * E-Web repeating blaster
 * Bowcaster
 * Ionization blaster (Jawa ionization blaster)
 * Sonic blaster (Geonosian sonic blaster)
 * Disruptor (DXR-6 disruptor rifle)
 * Projectile weapons (6-2Aug2 hunting rifle)
 * Dart shooter (Velocity-7 dart shooter)
 * Flame projector (CR-24 flame rifle)
 * Missile tube (PLX-2M)
 * Grenades and explosives (Class-A thermal detonator)
 * G-20 Glop grenade
 * WW-47 CryoBan grenade
 * Biotic grenade
 * Gungan atlatl and cesta
 * Lanvarok (Sith lanvarok)
 * Yuuzhan Vong bugs (razor bug)
 * Thud bug
 * Blast bug

Additional ranged weapons

 * Ammonia bomb
 * Ascension gun (S-5 heavy blaster pistol)
 * Beam tube
 * Bryar pistol
 * Charric
 * Flechette launcher
 * Grenade mortar
 * Ion stunner
 * Light repeating blaster (T-21 light repeating blaster)
 * Plasma eel
 * Pulse cannon
 * Pulse-wave blaster
 * Rail detonator
 * Repeater
 * Riot gun
 * Rodian repulsor throwing razor
 * Sentry gun
 * Ssi-ruuvi ion paddle beamer
 * Stokhli spray stick
 * Verpine shatter gun

Melee weapons

 * Lightsaber
 * Luke Skywalker's lightsaber
 * Darth Vader's lightsaber
 * Darth Maul's lightsaber
 * Asajj Ventress's lightsaber
 * Gaderffii
 * Force pike (Controller FP)
 * Vibro-weapons (Treppus-2 vibroblade)
 * Ryyk blades
 * Geonosian static pike
 * Darkstick
 * Amphistaff

Additional melee weapons

 * Coufee
 * Fear stick
 * Fire blade
 * Geonosian spear
 * Lightwhip
 * Morgukai cortosis staff
 * Neuronic whip
 * Sith sword
 * Stun baton
 * Stun gauntlet
 * Tehk’la Blade
 * Yuuzhan Vong claws

Starship and planetary weapons

 * Anti-vehicle artillery (1.4 FD P-Tower laser cannon)
 * Anti-infantry battery (DF.9 anti-infantry battery)
 * Laser cannons (KX9 laser cannons)
 * Turbolasers (XX-9 heavy turbolasers)
 * Planetary turbolaser (w-165 planetary turbolaser)
 * Proton torpedo warhead (MG7-A proton torpedo)
 * Concussion missiles (ST2 concussion missile)
 * Ion cannons (NK-7 ion cannon)
 * Planetary ion cannons (v-150 Planet Defender)
 * Tractor beam projector (Q7 tractor beam projector)
 * Cluster bomb (CL-3 antistarfighter cluster bomb)
 * Seismic charge (Void-7 seismic charge)
 * Grutchin
 * Plasma cannon (Yaret-Kor)
 * Mines (Imperial Atmospheric Explosive)

Additional starship and planetary weapons

 * Blaster artillery
 * Boarding harpoon
 * Bomblet generator
 * Diamond boron missile
 * Geonosian defense platform
 * Gungan energy catapult
 * Metal-Crystal Phase Shifter

Superweapons

 * Death Star
 * Death Star II
 * Superlaser
 * Orbital Nightcloak
 * Sun Crusher
 * Galaxy Gun
 * World Devastator

Defenses and armor

 * Deflector shield generator (ISD-72x shield generator dome)
 * Planetary shields (SLD-26 planetary shield generator)
 * Cloaking devices (prototype cloak field generator)
 * Blast armor
 * Clone trooper armor (Phase I clone trooper armor)
 * Stormtrooper armor
 * Mandalorian armor
 * Breath mask (Roamer-6 breath mask)
 * Vonduun-crab-shell-plated armor
 * Personal deflector shield (Military Mobility Shield)
 * Darth Vader's armor

Additional defenses

 * AV-1c combat armor
 * Chitin armor
 * Dark armor
 * Electromesh armor
 * Enviro-suit
 * Gungan personal energy shield
 * Gungan shield generator
 * Individual field disruptor
 * Mimetic suit
 * Ooglith cloaker
 * Ooglith masquer
 * Simcronic Magnaforce security shield
 * Spider silk armor
 * Stalker armor

Sensor, communication, and security devices

 * Comlinks (Hush-98 comlink)
 * Starship sensor array (ANq-51 sensor array computer)
 * Portable scanner (EnhanceScan general-purpose scanner)
 * HoloNet transceiver (Hologram projection pod)
 * Stun cuffs (SC-401 stun cuffs)
 * Security scanners (57C holocam)
 * Holocron (Jedi holocron)
 * Geonosian containment field
 * Coral restraining implant
 * Villip
 * Cognition hood

Additional sensor, communications, and security devices

 * Anti-register device
 * Bioscan
 * Caller
 * Clone trooper learning helmet
 * Com-scan
 * Creeper
 * Cybernetic implant comlink/pager
 * Data goggles
 * Electronic lock breaker
 * Embrace of Pain
 * Holocube
 * Homing beacon
 * Identichip
 * Inhibition field
 * Irradiators
 * Jedi reader
 * Laser gate
 * Magna lock
 * Man trap
 * Nerve disruptor
 * Rank cylinder
 * Recording rod
 * Restraining bolt
 * Sand-buzzer
 * Sensor beacon
 * Sensor tag
 * Slaving collar
 * Slicer chip
 * Substance analyzer
 * Tizowyrm
 * Transfer register
 * Universal energy cage
 * Universal jammer
 * Vocal enhancer
 * Weapons detector
 * Wrist link

Other equipment

 * Fusioncutter (F-187 fusioncutter)
 * Vaporator (GX-8 water vaporator)
 * Electrobinoculars (Model TD2.3 electrobinoculars)
 * Hologram projector (CS-Mark 12 holoprojector)
 * Jetpacks (Z-6 jetpack)
 * Bacta tank
 * Remote (Marksman-H combat remote)
 * Datapad (Versafunction88 datapad)
 * Cyborg unit (Borg Construct Aj^6)
 * Prosthetics (mechno-arm)
 * Cloning technologies (Kamino cloning chamber)
 * Ssi-ruuvi Entechment Rig

Additional equipment

 * Beamdrill
 * Chrono
 * Condenser unit
 * Electrorangefinder
 * Electrotelescope
 * Energy cell
 * Farseein
 * Fusion furnace
 * Glow rod
 * Halo lamp
 * Jedi testing screen
 * Liquid-cable launcher
 * Magwit's mystifying hoop
 * Map reader
 * Mechno-chair
 * Power chair
 * Psychic augmenter
 * Quick-seal splint
 * Scan grid
 * Spineray
 * Trace-breather cartridge

Appendix: ID charts

 * Blaster pistol ID chart
 * Blaster rifle ID chart
 * Additional grenades and explosives
 * Lightsabers
 * Stormtrooper and clone trooper armor

Behind the scenes
The Aurebesh writing on the page about Darth Vader's armor translates as "Sith Trooper Armor". Similarly on the page about Vonduun crab armor, the aurebesh at the bottom of the page translates to "aVonduum Crab Shell-Plated ArmorSith Speeder".