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| '''Energy weapon''' 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. | | '''Ray guns''' were a name sometimes used for [[energy weapon]]s, usually of the hand-held type. |
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| ==Anti-personnel energy weapons== | | ==References== |
| 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 [[firearm]]s 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'''.
| | *The [[Morok]]s used ray guns. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'') |
| | | *The [[Dalek]]s referred to their own [[gunstick]]s as ray guns. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') |
| *[[Dalek]] [[gunstick]] energy weapons were built into their casings. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]'' et al)
| | *[[Jamie McCrimmon]] and the [[Second Doctor]] referred to the [[Chameleon (humanoid)|Chameleons]]' weaponry as having ray guns. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'') |
| *Both the [[Cybermen]] of the Doctor's universe and the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] of [[Pete's World]] were seen with built-in energy weapons; the former had them in their heads, while the latter in their [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|forearms]]. The former also used [[Cyber-gun]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]], [[Army of Ghosts]]/''[[Doomsday|''Doomsday'']]) | | *The [[Cat-People]] used ray guns. ([[MA]]: ''[[Invasion of the Cat-People]]'') |
| *[[Sontaran]] soldiers typically carried 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]], designed to prevent [[regeneration]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|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]]'') | | [[Category:Handheld weapons]] |
| *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. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') | |
| *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, later replaced with a [[Laser Screwdriver]].
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| *River Song carried a Disintergrator Pistol which was capable of an [[Alpha Meson]] burst. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]''/''[[The Big Bang]]'')
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| *The [[Anubian]]s could fire an energy weapon through their palms. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Curse of Anubis]]'')
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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|200]]5 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|22nd century invasion]] of Earth and [[Dalek Invasion of Earth (2009)|their invasion]] whilst Earth was in the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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| *The human-built airship carrier, The ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', also carried a [[Jathaa sunglider]] energy weapon. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
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| *The [[CyberKing]] was fitted with an energy weapon on its arm. ([[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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