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. Links from this article will go to articles detailing the weapon or technology.

Table of contents

 * Introduction
 * A Guide to Major Manufacturers

Ranged weapons

 * Blasters (DH-17)
 * Blaster rifle
 * Heavy blaster pistol
 * Sporting blaster
 * Light repeating blaster
 * E-WEB repeating blaster
 * Jawa ionization blaster
 * Bowcaster
 * Beam tube
 * Ssi-ruuvi paddle beamer
 * Disruptor
 * Sonic pistol
 * Wrist rockets
 * Stokhli spray stick
 * Projectile weapons
 * Flame projector
 * Dart shooter
 * Flechette launcher
 * Missile tube
 * Thermal detonator
 * Grenades
 * Grenade mortar
 * Blaster artillery
 * Anti-vehicle artillery
 * Anti-infantry battery

Melee weapons

 * Lightsaber
 * Exar Kun's lightsaber
 * Gaderffii
 * Force pike
 * Vibro-ax
 * Vibroblade
 * Ryyk blades
 * Stun baton
 * Individual field disruptor

Starship and planetary weapons and defenses

 * Proton torpedoes
 * Concussion missiles
 * Laser cannons
 * Deflector shield generator
 * Ion cannons
 * Tractor beam projector
 * Turbolasers
 * Proton grenade
 * Diamond boron missile
 * Cluster bomb
 * Mine
 * Planetary ion cannons
 * Planetary turbolaser
 * Cloaking device
 * Orbital Nightcloak
 * Planetary shields
 * Superlaser
 * Sun Crusher
 * Galaxy Gun

Sensors and communications

 * Starship sensor array
 * Com-scan
 * Electrotelescope
 * Portable scanner
 * Sensor tag
 * Sensor beacon
 * Sensor jammers
 * Homing beacon
 * Comlinks
 * Cybernetic implant comlink/pager
 * Subspace transceivers
 * HoloNet transceiver

Security devices

 * Stun cuffs
 * Stun nets
 * Slaving collars
 * Nerve disruptor
 * Universal energy cage
 * Man trap
 * Automated laser trap
 * Rank cylinder
 * Electronic lock breaker
 * Security scanners
 * Bioscan
 * Holographic image disguiser
 * Molecularly bonded armor and anticoncussion field

General equipment

 * Common hand tools
 * Breath mask
 * Vaporator
 * Electrobinoculars
 * Beamdrill
 * Glow rod
 * Recording rod
 * Harpoon and tow cable
 * Hologram projector
 * Jet, Rocket, and Repulsor Packs
 * Medpac
 * Bacta tank
 * Remote
 * Seeker
 * Datapad
 * Cyborg unit
 * Carbon-freezing chamber
 * Holocron
 * Ssi-ruuvi entechment rig
 * Organic gill
 * Magwit's mystifying hoop
 * Infrared motion sensor