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
 * A Guide to Minor Manufacturers

Ranged weapons

 * Blasters
 * Blaster rifle
 * E-WEB repeating blaster
 * Bowcaster
 * Jawa ionization blaster
 * Sonic blaster
 * Disruptor
 * Projectile weapons
 * Dart shooter
 * Flame projector
 * Missile tube
 * Thermal detonator
 * Grenades
 * Gungan atlatl and cesta
 * Lanvarok
 * Yuuzhan Vong bugs

Additional Ranged Weapons

 * Ammonia bomb
 * Ascension gun
 * Beam tube
 * Bryar Pistol
 * Charric
 * Flechette launcher
 * Grenade mortar
 * Ion stunner
 * 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
 * Vibro-ax
 * 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'lka blade
 * Yuuzhan Vong claws

Starship and planetary weapons

 * Anti-vehicle artillery
 * Anti-infantry battery
 * Laser cannons
 * Turbolasers
 * Planetary turbolaser
 * Proton torpedo warhead
 * Concussion missiles
 * Ion cannons
 * Planetary ion cannons
 * Tractor beam projector
 * Cluster bomb
 * Seismic charge
 * Grutchin
 * Plasma cannon
 * Mines

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
 * Orbital Nightcloak
 * Sun Crusher
 * Galaxy Gun
 * World Devastator

Defenses and Armor

 * Deflector shield generator
 * Planetary shields
 * Cloaking devices
 * Blast armor
 * Clone trooper armor
 * Stormtrooper armor
 * Mandalorian armor
 * Breath mask
 * Vonduun-crab-shell-plated armor
 * Personal deflector 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
 * Magnaforge security shield
 * Spider silk armor
 * Stalker armor

Sensor, Communication, and Security Devices

 * Comlinks
 * Starship sensor array
 * Portable scanner
 * HoloNet transceiver
 * Stun cuffs
 * Security scanners
 * 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
 * Vaporator
 * Electrobinoculars
 * Hologram projector
 * Jetpacks
 * Bacta tank
 * Remote
 * Datapad
 * Cyborg unit
 * Prosthetics
 * Cloning technologies
 * Ssi-ruu 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

Publication data

 * Author: W. Haden Blackman
 * Illustrations: Ian Fullwood
 * Schematics:
 * Editors:
 * Publisher: The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York
 * First Edition: November 2004
 * ©2004 Lucasfilm Ltd.