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. (DW: 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. (DW: Revenge of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)
• Sontaran soldiers typically carried some form of blaster. (DW: The Time Warrior)
• The Chancellery Guard on Gallifrey used a weapon called a staser, designed to prevent regeneration. (DW: 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. (DW: Bad Wolf)
• Shortly afterwards, Jack improvised an energy weapon out of the Defabricator. (DW: Bad Wolf)
• The Judoon carried hand held weapons. (DW: Smith and Jones)
• Chantho used an energy weapon against The Master. While not immediately fatal, the injury triggered a regeneration. (DW: 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. (DW: Doomsday)
• The Sea Devils carried energy weapons. (DW: 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. (DW: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang)
• The Anubians could fire an energy weapon through their palms. (K9TV: Curse of Anubis)

Large-scale energy weapons

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

See also

• Dalek enhanced Tommy Gun
• Sonic blaster
• Firearm