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Darth Maul's Electrobinoculars | Gaffi Stick | Ion Cannons | Lightsaber Darth Maul's Electrobinoculars On Tatooine, Maul uses electrobinoculars to search for the Jedi. These electrobinoculars are equipped with radiation sensors for night vision and powerful light-gathering components for long distance scanning. Tied to global mapping scanners in his starship, Maul's electrobinocular viewscreen displays the precise location of targets and indicates life signals or power frequencies. Specific shapes, colors or energy types can be set as targets, and even invisible defensive fields can be detected. Gaffi Stick The traditional terror weapon of Tatooine's desert Sand People (or Tusken Raiders) is the dreaded gaderffi, or gaffi stick. This deadly, axe-like weapon is fashioned from metal scavenged from wrecked or abandoned vehicles and spaceships that end up in the Tatooine wastes. Luke Skywalker encounters the gaffi stick at uncomfortably close range in the Jundland Wastes. When the stormtroopers destroyed the Jawa sandcrawler, they left gaffi sticks scattered around the battle site to make it look like a Tusken Raider attack. Borstel NK-7 Ion Cannon Ion Cannons are similar to laser cannons, but their energy beams, which appear to be standard laser blasts, actually disable the target ship's electronic and computer systems instead of causing physical damage. Ion energy blasts overload and fuse circuitry, blowing out computers, fight control systems, sensors, shields and weapons - even life-support and communications systems are damaged. While low-powered bolts may cause only minor system failures, a powerful blast can cripple a ship for several minutes. As internal electronic systems short out, streams of blur lightning play across control panels and electronic interfaces. (Laser cannons sometimes cause an ionization effect, as observed on Luke's snowspeeder during the battle of Hoth). Since ion blasts are unimpaired by energy shields, ships have no defence against such blasts. Most capital ships carry in excess of 20 ion cannons. The original Death Star had more than 2500 ion cannons and Death Star II had at least double that number. Usually the large capital ships such as Star Destroyers use Ion Cannons to disable a ship and then use turbo lasers to eliminate them. Rebels and pirates alike use the cannons for only disabling the ships; to take the ship as well as it's cargo intact, and undamaged. The lightsaber is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. To the lay user, it is quite an insufficient weapon, and would not protect them against a barrage of blaster fire. And hence, it is the weapon of the Jedi Knight. Because the Jedi Knight is not the lay user. Assisted by the force, he can fight off any number of enemies with blasters for as long as he chooses.
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