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BD-1/BD-2 Electrostaff
AFFILIATION
Open Market
MANUFACTURER
Baktoid Armor Workshop
SIZE
2m/2.2m
WEIGHT
2.6kg/4.5kg
COMPOSITION
Phrik Weave TitaniumWEAPON TYPE
Melee
DAMAGE TYPE
Melee
AMMUNITION CAPACITY
N/A
FIRE SELECTOR
2 Power Settings: Stun and Lethal
MAX RANGE
Melee
DESCRIPTION
Originally produced during the Clone Wars by Baktoid Armor Workshop to combete with Halowan Laboratories's rival model. The CIS leadership had hired Halowan to build its IG-100 bodyguard droids, and they came with a proprietary model of staff. Baktoid, seeking to one up its rival, designed a more durable and longer model, and intended to out produce the small company. They succeeded. By the end of the war, Baktoid's BD-1 had nearly replaced the previous model. The BD-1 was a full foot longer and had a more thorough phrik weave, preventing the earlier weak spots on the Halowan. The thing could resist lightsabers across its full length and its ridged body served to slow the weapons when locked with it. Another improvement was the inclusion of 2 power levels stun and lethal. The lethal setting takes approximately 5 seconds of continuous contact to kill an average humanoid victim.After the war, many of the Separatist armories were closed, but not Baktoid. Their elctrostaff department was nationalized and thrown into developing further melee weaponry under the watchful eye of loyal Arakyd. This brings us to the BD-2, which could be separated at the center quickly and wielded as two batons. This model replaced the BD-1 completely in production by the first year of the Empire, though the surplus of BD-1s were handed out to Jedi hunters nearly as often as the newer model. Baktoid survives as a subsidiary to Arakyd even to this day, though it almost solely produces BD-2s. These weapons often found their way into the underworld, seeing as they could be used to incapacitate, torture or kill all with one tool. However, unlike disruptors they are not illegal in most places for the same potentially non fatal reasons. The Sector Rangers and Bounty Hunters Guild would be just as likely to wield one as a Sith Eternal or Five Syndicate Thug.
LEGALITY
Legal, where a vibrosword would be. Often liable to same laws and restrictions.INTENT
Electrostaves form a major form of non lightsaber melee weaponry. They are also far more abundant in visual Canon than vibro based weapons. They make frequent appearances in Ep. III, TCW, and other media. Also, they have a distinct purpose and feel separate from vibroswords, seeing as they are a wielded as a blunt weapon as apposed to an edged one. My upcoming character will wield one and seeing as it is a fairly common device, I assume others will as well.
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