Swagger stick
A swagger stick was a cane carried by a figure of authority; including leading members of armies, air forces, and navies.
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart had a swagger stick in his days as leader to UNIT's British branch. (TV: Inferno, Day of the Daleks, The Time Warrior; COMIC: The Arkwood Experiments [+]) Eric Stahlman tried to use it to crush a microcircuit to justify continuing his Inferno project, only to be stopped by the Third Doctor. (TV: Inferno)
Rheon carbines were swagger sticks with blasters used by Sontarans. Some were used by Commander Linx of the Fifth Sontaran Army Space Fleet, (TV: The Time Warrior) Commander Stor of the Sontaran Special Space Service, (TV: The Invasion of Time) Group Marshal Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet, (TV: The Two Doctors) General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet, (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem|The Poison Sky) Major Stenx of the Twelfth Sontaran Battle Fleet, (PROSE: The Sontaran Games), Commander Steg, (HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans) Group Marshal Nathan of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Brigade. (HOMEVID: A Fix with Sontarans)
