The tenth book in Del Rey's Essential Guide series, The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology is 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.
It was reprinted as part of The New Essential Guide to Characters, Weapons and Technology, and Vehicles and Vessels in 2005.
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 Arms
- 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 Corporation
- Taim & Bak
- TaggeCo
- Ubrikkian Transports
- Yuuzhan Vong
- Zaltin Bacta Corporation
A Guide to Minor Manufacturers
Ranged weapons
- Blasters (DH-17 blaster pistol)
- Blaster rifle (E-11 blaster rifle)
- E-Web heavy 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 (Model CR-24 flame rifle)
- Missile tube (PLX-2M)
- Grenades and explosives (Class-A thermal detonator)
- Gungan atlatl and cesta
- Lanvarok (Sith lanvarok)
- Yuuzhan Vong bugs (razor 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
- 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)
- Anti-infantry battery (DF.9)
- 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
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
- Zero-G assault stormtrooper armor (Zero-G Assault Stormtrooper Light 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
- 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
- Glowrod
- 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
Appearances[]
By type
| Characters | Organisms | Droid models | Events | Locations |
| Organizations and titles | Sentient species | Vehicles and vessels | Weapons and technology | Miscellanea |
Characters
Locations
Weapons and technology
Media[]
Editions[]
- ISBN 9780345449030; October 26, 2004; Del Rey; US paperback[1]
- ISBN 9780385364638; September 22, 2014; Del Rey; US hardcover[2]
Errors[]
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 "A Vonduun Crab Shell-Plated Armor Sith Speeder".
- The Sun Crusher affiliation is said to be Admiral Natasi Daala. This is an error, as the Empire never used it in battle.
- The Aurebesh writing on the page about fusion cutters misspells the word as 'fuscioncutter'.
- "Missile" is misspelled as "Missle" on pages 26 and 173.
- Luke Skywalker's lightsaber is said tot resemble Darth Vader's lightsaber when it was really modeled after Obi-Wan Kenobi's third lightsaber.
Sources[]
Coming Soon: Weapons and Tech Essentials on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
Notes and references[]
External links[]
The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link)
The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology: Revised Edition: Star Wars on Penguin Random House's official website (backup link)
Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Weapons & Technology on Barnes & Noble's official website (backup link) (Hardcover)
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