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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 (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')

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 (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') 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 (audio story)|The Side of the Angels]]'') Similarly, [[Lord President's personal security sidearm|the sidearm]] of the [[Lord President|President]]'s personal security did not have a stun setting though a Time Lord shot with it could regenerate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

Stasers were ineffective against [[Sontaran]] armour, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') [[android]]s of [[Kraal (species)|Kraal]] manufacture, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Oseidon Adventure (audio story)|The Oseidon Adventure]]'') and [[Dalek]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'')

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 (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')

Before his death, [[Andred (Weapon of Choice)|Andred]] showed his wife [[Leela]] how to operate a staser. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Extermination (audio story)|Extermination]]'')

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 (audio story)|The Conscript]]'') Children in the [[First Segment]] of the War sorted out staser bolt chargers in munitions factories. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger (short story)|The Stranger]]'') Stasers were devolved into [[machine pistol]]s on the [[Neverwhen]] [[Planet (The Neverwhen)|planet]] front as a result of [[time phasing]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Neverwhen (audio story)|The Neverwhen]]'')

According to one account, before his disfigurement, the [[Decayed Master|Thirteenth Master]] decided to "spice things up a bit" by using a staser instead of the [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]]. After swapping bodies with {{Macqueen|n=a future self}}, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') he returned to using the TCE. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')

A staser sniper rifle was used in the [[assassination]] of the [[President (The Deadly Assassin)|Lord President]] by [[Goth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'')

A staser wielded by Commander [[Maxil]] was used to stun the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'')

[[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 (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')

[[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 (Intervention Earth)|Sol]] in exchange for her help. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Intervention Earth (audio story)|Intervention Earth]]'')

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 (audio story)|Day of the Vashta Nerada]]'')

During his invasion of Gallifrey following his banishment by the Doctor, [[Rassilon]] killed [[Lady President (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|his successor]] as Lord President with a staser, reclaiming [[Rassilon's gauntlet|his gauntlet]] and the title of [[Lord President]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')