Post by Rose on Apr 25, 2007 19:27:19 GMT -5
Jawa Blaster
Basic Information -
Homeworld: Tatooine
Manufacturer: Jawa
Type: Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon
Affiliation: Jawa
Associations: Jawa
The Jawas of Tatooine are a scavenger species that scours the deserts in hopes of finding machinery to salvage. As such, they carry weapons specially designed to incapacitate droids. The small rifle that connects to a belt-worn powerpack emits a smoky blast of energy that envelops a droid in an electric blue haze. By the time the discharge has worked its way through a droid's body, the automaton is rendered inactive, and the greedy scrap-dealers move in to lift it away. While there is no "standard" Jawa blaster, most are cannibalized from similar parts. It begins life as a standard blaster rifle, with its laser assembly stripped away. In its place is a modified droid restraining bolt and an ion accu-accelerator, the latter presumably scavenged from starship wreckage. Jawa blasters are notoriously unreliable, and have very limited range, forcing the Jawas to sneak up on their droid prey. The Empire employs a modern analog of the Jawa blaster, the sophisticated DEMP gun, to dispatch droid targets.