More actions
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.
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 Disintergrator 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)