Ion Grenade

About the Ion Grenade

Pull the pin and lob it, and everything electronic within the blast radius simply stops. The ion grenade releases a burst of ionized energy that overwhelms circuits, fries servos, and drops droids and machinery without harming the flesh-and-blood beings caught alongside them. Rebel saboteurs, slicers, and anyone who has faced a wall of battle droids has reached for one, the compact charge a great equalizer against numerically superior automated foes. Against a squad of droids or a bank of security systems it is decisive; against organic enemies it is nearly useless, so the thrower must know exactly what problem they are solving. Light and easily carried, it is thrown a short distance and rewards good target selection over raw aggression. In the right moment, a single ion grenade unmakes an army of machines.