Heavy Sonic Pistol

About the Heavy Sonic Pistol

Sonic weapons occupy a strange niche in the galaxy's armories, and the heavy sonic pistol is their brutal one-handed champion. Instead of a bolt, it fires a concentrated concussive pulse of sound that hammers a target's body and inner ear, disorienting, deafening, and outright rupturing at close range. Because the wave ignores the energy-dispersing armor that stops blaster fire, it finds favor with hunters and enforcers who expect to face shielded or heavily plated foes. The Geonosians and various fringe outfits pioneered such technology, and the heavy variant cranks the output to punishing levels. It is loud in every sense, announcing itself with a bone-deep thrum, and its effect falls off sharply with distance. But up close, against an opponent who thought their armor would save them, the heavy sonic pistol delivers a very unpleasant surprise.