Energy weapon

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 space, mounted on space ships or even planetary bases.

Anti-Personnel Energy Weapons

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 firearms include their ability to do significantly more damage than a projectile, and, ironically, their ability to be designed to incapacitate rather than kill.

• Dalek energy weapons are built into their casing.
• Both Mondasian Cybermen and Cybus Cybermen have been seen with built-in energy weapons.
• Sontaran soldiers typically carry some form of energy weapon.
• Jack Harkness carried a compact deluxe laser pistol which was able to defeat the androids Trin-e and Zu-Zana when they tried to kill him. (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.
• The Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator was a particularly exotic form of energy weapon.

Large-Scale Energy Weapons

• The Jathaa sunglider weapon deployed by the Torchwood Institute in 2007 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 Dalek invasion of Earth and Dalek invasion of Earth whilst Earth was in the Medusa Cascade. (DW: The Stolen Earth)
• The human-built airship carrier, The Valiant, also carried energy weapons. (DW: The Poison Sky)