Rheon carbine: Difference between revisions

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Rheon carbines (AUDIO: Starlight Robbery, PROSE: The Two Doctors, Lords of the Storm) were swagger sticks with blasters used by Sontarans. (TV: The Time Warrior, The Invasion of Time, The Two Doctors, The Sontaran Stratagem; PROSE: Lords of the Storm, et al)

While consistently wand-like in shape, (TV: The Time Warrior, The Two Doctors, The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky) other details could vary in appearance, such as some models looking like long, clear tubes with silver caps, (HOMEVID: A Fix with Sontarans) complete with "bulbous flash-eliminators" (PROSE: The Two Doctors) Other models were black, with one of the ends having a larger ball-like object on it than the other. (TV: The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)

Rheon carbines fired pockets of charged (PROSE: Lords of the Storm) rheon particles (PROSE: A Soldier's Education) orange or red in colour, capable of stuning, injuring or killing a target, (HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky) even through armour. (PROSE: Lords of the Storm, Shakedown) Furthermore, they were able to repair minor damage to Sontaran technology such as the teleport pod. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem) There was a concealed safety catch on the butt of the weapon that prevented individuals who were not in possession of this knowledge from firing it; (HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans) the safety catch also prevented the carbine from being accidentally discharged. The Rutan Host could resist the effects of a single weapon's fire for a certain amount of time, but multiple bursts would defeat the Rutan's defences. (PROSE: Lords of the Storm, Shakedown)

Commander Steg shooting and killing Nikos. (HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans)

A variant of blue-armoured Sontarans, named "Carbine Sontaran", is seen wielding a baton identical to Staal's in the video game Legacy.

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 == History ==
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+[[File:Sontaran shoots Nikos.jpg|thumb|Commander [[Steg]] shooting and killing [[Nikos (Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans)|Nikos]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (home video)|Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'')]]
-[[File:Sontaran shoots Nikos.jpg|thumb|Commander [[Steg]] shooting and killing [[Nikos]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (home video)|Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'')]]
 The weapon was carried by [[Commander]] [[Jingo Linx]] , ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') [[Group Marshal]] [[Stike]] of the [[Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'') Group Marshal [[Nathan (A Fix with Sontarans)|Nathan]], ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[A Fix with Sontarans (home video)|A Fix with Sontarans]]'') Commander [[Steg]] and his troops, ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (home video)|Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans]]'') [[General]] [[Staal]] of the [[Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet]],  ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'' / ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'') and [[Major]] [[Stenx]] of the [[Twelfth Sontaran Battle Fleet]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sontaran Games (novel)|The Sontaran Games]]'') [[Fleet Marshal]] [[Stentor]] carried a [[Battle Standard]] instead of a baton, however. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords of the Storm (novel)|Lords of the Storm]]'')