- "An energy slingshot. Cute."
- ―Bossk to Ezra Bridger
An energy slingshot was a small wrist-mounted weapon that fired non-lethal energy pellets projectiles. They were legal on most planets throughout the galaxy. Ezra Bridger, a teenage orphan from Lothal, used an energy slingshot.
Overview[]
A wrist-mounted slingshot device favored by pranksters and the youth of many species, the energy slingshot was used by pointing the device at a target and pulling back on an energized cup. When released, the cup launched a disorienting shock-burst over a short distance. A non-lethal tool, it was legal to possess on most worlds throughout the galaxy.[3] Unlike stun blaster bolts, the slingshot projectiles were subject to gravitation, and traveled in a parabolic arc.[6]
The slingshots could be modified to send out light only in order to trigger sensors.[7]
History[]
Prior to 18 BBY,[8] the Graf family used modified slingshots in a game. Milo Graf later watched a hologram of the game after his parents were captured by the Galactic Empire.[7]
Around 5 BBY,[9] the Lothal orphan Ezra Bridger possessed a slingshot which he used during the time of the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire[10] before he built his own Jedi lightsaber.[6] It was fabricated by a Xexto, and nobody knew how he obtained it.[2] Bridger continued to wear the slingshot on his left wrist until the time between the Siege of Lothal and a mission to Seelos.[11] He would later equip the slingshot to the hilt of his first lightsaber.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
The energy slingshot appears in the first season of Star Wars Rebels and its Season 2 premiere Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal. For the rest of the series, Ezra's energy slingshot is replaced with a wrist comm.
Appearances[]
Non-canon appearances[]
Sources[]
- Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide
- Ultimate Sticker Collection: Star Wars Rebels
Introducing Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)- "Rebel with a Cause" — Star Wars Insider 152
- Rebel Journal by Ezra Bridger
- "The Art of Rebels" — Star Wars Insider 153
- Star Wars Rebels: Fight the Empire
- Ultimate Star Wars
- Star Wars Rebels Annual 2016
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- Nexus of Power
- Star Wars: Destiny — Awakenings (Card: All In) (backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
- Gadgets and Gear
- "Blasters and Ranged Weapons" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3
"Blasters and Ranged Weapons" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nexus of Power
- ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- ↑ Ezra's Gamble
- ↑ 6.0 6.1
Star Wars Rebels — "Property of Ezra Bridger"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Adventures in Wild Space: The Cold
- ↑ In Adventures in Wild Space: The Steal, Ezra Bridger is an infant. Since Ezra was born on the first Empire Day (which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas cites as 19 BBY), the Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space series (the books of which take place in close proximity to each other) must be set around 18 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels — "Path of the Jedi"
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels — "The Lost Commanders"