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| '''Energy weapon''' can refer to any device that is intended to use directed energy in a destructive manner. Energy weapons can range 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. | | '''Ray guns''' were a popular name for hand-held [[energy weapon]]s. |
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| ==Anti-Personnel Energy Weapons==
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| An '''energy weapon''' can be a handheld weapon that fire energy rather than a projectile of some sort. This energy can be a laser, plasma, or some more esoteric variety. Advantages of energy weapons over [[firearm]]s include their ability to do significantly more damage than a projectile, and, ironically, their ability to be designed to incapacitate rather than kill. They are often informally referred to as '''blasters'''.
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| *[[Dalek]] [[gunstick]] energy weapons are built into their casing. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]'') onward
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| *Both [[Mondasian Cybermen]] and [[Cybus Cybermen]] have been seen with built-in energy weapons; the former had them in their heads, while the latter in their [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|forearms]]. The Mondasian Cybermen have also used [[Cyber-gun]]s.
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| *[[Sontaran]] soldiers typically carry some form of [[Sontaran blaster|blaster]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
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| *The [[Chancellery Guard]] on [[Gallifrey]] used a weapon called a [[staser]], which was designed to prevent [[regeneration]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity]]'')
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| *[[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. ([[DW]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'')
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| *Shortly afterwards, Jack improvised an energy weapon out of the [[Defabricator]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]])
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| *The [[Judoon]] carried hand held [[Judoon blaster|weapons]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
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| *[[Chantho]] used an energy weapon against [[The Master]]. While not immediately fatal, the injury triggered a [[regeneration]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
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| *[[The Preachers]] carried large [[Energy blaster]]s to fight Cybermen; while the Doctor modified them to be be used against Daleks, they were ultimately ineffective.
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| *The [[Sea Devil]]s carried energy weapons. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sea Devils]]'')
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| *The Master's [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] was a particularly exotic form of energy weapon.
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| ==Large-Scale Energy Weapons==
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| *The [[Jathaa sunglider]] weapon deployed by the [[Torchwood 1|Torchwood Institute]] in [[2007]] during the [[Sycorax]]'s appearance over [[London]] on [[Christmas]] day. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')
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| *Ship mounted weapons such as those utilised by the [[Dalek]]s during their [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] of Earth and [[Dalek Invasion of Earth (2009)|Dalek invasion of Earth]] whilst Earth was in the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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| *The human-built airship carrier, The ''[[Valiant]]'', also carried energy weapons. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| *The [[CyberKing]] was outfitted with energy weapons on its arms. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Dalek enhanced Tommy Gun]]
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| *[[Sonic blaster]]
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| *[[Firearm]]
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