Staser
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Staser weapons were the standard armament of the Chancellery Guard on Gallifrey. The Guards were normally equipped with staser pistols, although staser rifles were also occasionally used.
Usage
Stasers had both lethal and non-lethal settings, and fired an unspecified type of directed energy. They were relatively harmless to inorganic matter but caused massive tissue disruption to living creatures. The corpse would be unrecognizable upon examination. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])
According to one account, a staser was a type of regeneration inhibitor, with a single shot being able to kill a Time Lord outright and ensure that regeneration could not take place. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) However, stasers could be modified to allow for regeneration, as the Eleven used to torture Volstrom by inducing multiple successive regenerations. (AUDIO: The Side of the Angels [+]Loading...["The Side of the Angels (audio story)"]) Similarly, the sidearm of the President's personal security did not have a stun setting though a Time Lord shot with it could regenerate. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])
Stasers were ineffective against Sontaran armour, (TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"]) androids of Kraal manufacture, (AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure [+]Loading...["The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)"]) and Daleks. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element [+]Loading...["The Apocalypse Element (audio story)"])
The stasers issued to Chancellery Guards and to security personnel were coloured red, but Castellan Spandrell and Chancellor Goth both used black pistols. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])
Before his death, Andred showed his wife Leela how to operate a staser. (AUDIO: Extermination [+]Loading...["Extermination (audio story)"])
Stasers were used as standard weapons during the Last Great Time War. Soldiers were expected to know how to build and maintain stasers. (AUDIO: The Conscript [+]Loading...["The Conscript (audio story)"]) Children in the First Segment of the War sorted out staser bolt chargers in munitions factories. (PROSE: The Stranger [+]Loading...["The Stranger (short story)"]) Stasers were devolved into machine pistols on the Neverwhen planet front as a result of time phasing. (AUDIO: The Neverwhen [+]Loading...["The Neverwhen (audio story)"])
Instances of use
According to one account, before his disfigurement, the Thirteenth Master decided to "spice things up a bit" by using a staser instead of the Tissue Compression Eliminator. After swapping bodies with a future self, (AUDIO: The Two Masters [+]Loading...["The Two Masters (audio story)"]) he returned to using the TCE. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])
A staser sniper rifle was used in the assassination of the Lord President by Goth. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])
A staser wielded by Commander Maxil was used to stun the Fifth Doctor. (TV: Arc of Infinity [+]Loading...["Arc of Infinity (TV story)"])
Jerricho supposedly kept a small staser hidden on his person and was shot dead by security personnel whilst using it to attempt an escape during Borusa's Death Zone gambit. (TV: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"])
Coordinator Narvin was given a staser for a mission in Earth's past. President Romana III forbid him from using it to stun or kill humans. He shot a wall to impress the local people and he promised to gift it to Sol in exchange for her help. (AUDIO: Intervention Earth [+]Loading...["Intervention Earth (audio story)"])
During the Last Great Time War, Commander Roxita and his Capitol Guard used stasers in vain against the Vashta Nerada on Synthesis Station. Within the Doctor's TARDIS, the Eighth Doctor found that Roxita's staser had been infested by the Vashta Nerada. (AUDIO: Day of the Vashta Nerada [+]Loading...["Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)"])
During his invasion of Gallifrey following his banishment by the Doctor, Rassilon killed his successor as Lord President with a staser, reclaiming his gauntlet and the title of Lord President. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"])
