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.