DC-17 hand blaster/Legends

The DC-17 repeater 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 and clone trooper commanders.

The DC-17 pistol was a smaller version of the DC-15 blaster, and shared many similarities with the DC-15s side arm blaster used by clone commandos. DC-17 hand blasters were carried in quick-release holsters, and elite clone troopers sometimes wielded dual pistols in battle&mdash;a trait reminiscent of Jango Fett himself.

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.

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, Sergants Kal Skirata and Walon Vau, and Jedi Generals Bardan Jusik and Etain Tur-Mukan, raided a landing strip in order to expose a terrorist operation.

DC-17s were later used by Imperial shock troopers around the time of the Battle of Yavin.

The DC-17 blaster pistol was 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 ARC Troopers in particular tended to look down on uninformed people who puzzled over the similarity of the naming for two such apparently different weapons.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * Republic Commando: Hard Contact
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * "Hide in Plain Sight"
 * "One Battle"
 * Another Fine Mess
 * The Brink
 * Heroes on Both Sides
 * This Precious Shining
 * Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hidden Enemy
 * Descent
 * The Order of Outcasts
 * Star Wars: Lethal Alliance