Energy weapon

Energy weapons were any device that intended to use directed energy in a destructive manner. Energy weapons ranged in size and type from handheld anti-personnel weapons to massive cannons for combat in the vacuum of space, mounted on space ships, or even planetary bases.

Anti-personnel energy weapons

An energy weapon could be a handheld weapon that fired energy rather than a projectile of some sort. This energy might be a laser, plasma, or some more esoteric variety. Advantages of energy weapons over firearms included their ability to do significantly more damage than a projectile, and, ironically, their ability to be designed to incapacitate rather than kill. They were often informally referred to as blasters.

• Dalek gunstick energy weapons were built into their casings. (TV: The Daleks et al)
• Both the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe and the Cybermen of Pete's World were seen with built-in energy weapons; the former had them in their heads, while the latter in their forearms. The former also used Cyber-guns. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)
• Sontaran soldiers typically carried some form of blaster. (TV: The Time Warrior)
• The Chancellery Guard on Gallifrey used a weapon called a staser, designed to prevent regeneration. (TV: Arc of Infinity)
• Jack Harkness carried a Compact Laser Deluxe, which was able to defeat the androids Trin-E and Zu-Zana when they tried to kill him. (TV: Bad Wolf)
• Shortly afterwards, Jack improvised an energy weapon out of the defabricator. (TV: Bad Wolf)
• The Judoon carried hand held weapons. (TV: Smith and Jones)
• Chantho used an energy weapon against the Master. While not immediately fatal, the injury triggered a regeneration. (TV: Utopia)
• The Preachers carried large energy blasters to fight Cybermen; while the Doctor modified them to be be used against Daleks, they were ultimately ineffective. (TV: Doomsday)
• The Sea Devils carried energy weapons. (TV: The Sea Devils)
• The Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator was a particularly exotic form of energy weapon, later replaced with a laser screwdriver.
• River Song carried a disintegrator pistol which was capable of an Alpha Meson burst. (TV: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang)
• The Anubians could fire an energy weapon through their palms. (TV: Curse of Anubis)
• The personnel aboard Space Station Nerva carried energy pistols that could stun and kill. Their armoury section also contained fission guns that were much more formidable.(TV: The Ark in Space (TV story)

Large-scale energy weapons

• The Jathaa sunglider weapon was deployed by the Torchwood Institute in 2005 during the Sycorax's appearance over London on Christmas day. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
• The Daleks used ship mounted weapons during their 22nd century invasion of Earth and their invasion whilst Earth was in the Medusa Cascade. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
• The human-built airship carrier, the Valiant, also carried a Jathaa sunglider energy weapon. (TV: The Poison Sky)
• The CyberKing was fitted with an energy weapon on its arm. (TV: The Next Doctor)
• The Special Weapons Dalek was equipped with an enormous energy cannon capable of vaporising other Daleks in a single shot. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

See also

• Dalek enhanced Tommy Gun
• Sonic blaster
• Firearm