List of Star Wars weapons

List of Star Wars weapons The fictional Star Wars universe features an intricate array of weapons that have uses and powers ranging from interpersonal combat to destroying entire space stations or even planets and solar systems in single sweeps. Some of them resemble stereotypical science fiction weapons, while others, perhaps most notably the lightsaber, are uniquely associated with the franchise. While the original trilogy's weapons were, in essence, classic space opera armaments, the Expanded Universe has some semblance of a consistent, detailed weapons technology.

Weapons
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Ship-mounted weapons
Main article: List of Star Wars ship-mounted weapons

Personal ranged weapons
Main article: List of Star Wars ranged weapons The ray gun, the standard weapon of classic science fiction, is also the most common weapon in the Star Wars universe. There are many variations of blasters: pistols, carbines, cannons, assault rifles and even machine guns. For example, Princess Leia Organa wielded a sporting blaster when her ship was boarded by Darth Vader's forces, while Han Solo prefers a heavy blaster pistol (a BlasTech DL-44). One of the most common and well-known blasters is the E-11 blaster rifle, the standard weapon of Imperial stormtroopers. Several of the Star Wars films' fictional weapons are modified from real-life blank firing prop guns: Han Solo's pistol is a customized Mauser C96, while the stormtroopers carry Sterling submachine guns or the World War II-era German MG34 general purpose machine gun, most easily seen in the detention center break-in in Episode IV.

The average output of a blaster is about 8 megajoules.[citation needed] The blasters supposedly operate off of a Tibanna gas cartridge and a power pack, with the weapon magnetically "bottling" the Tibanna gas and then exciting it as it is fired. This is similar to the actual operation of real-world gas lasers.

Heavy weapons
Main article: List of Star Wars heavy weapons

Melee weapons
Main article: List of Star Wars melee weapons