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- "That's the problem with a sniper rifle. Deadly at a distance…but vulnerable at close range."
- ―Gallin Crae, to Just Lucky
The sniper rifle, also called a sniper blaster rifle or assassin rifle, was a type of blaster rifle used to shoot targets at long range.
History[]
Obi-Wan Kenobi disguised as Rako Hardeen fires a sniper rifle in the Box.
Just before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Zam Wesell used a flying assassin droid in an attempt to assassinate Senator Padmé Amidala on Coruscant. The plan failed and Zam Wesell saw the assassin droid returning to her with Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi hanging onto it. To avoid being caught by the Jedi and having her plans exposed, Wesell retrieved her sniper rifle from her airspeeder. Using the targeting scope on her KiSteer 1284 projectile rifle to zoom in on her target, she fired at the incoming droid and destroyed it. This sent Kenobi plummeting toward the planet surface, but he was quickly rescued by Anakin Skywalker. Realizing things had gone south, Wesell immediately stowed her sniper rifle and took off in her airspeeder.[2]
A Death Watch assassin aiming for Satine.
During the Clone Wars, a BX-series droid commando used a sniper rifle at the Battle of Saleucami to wound Rex.[3] Bounty hunters such as Aurra Sing,[6] Rumi Paramita,[7] and Rako Hardeen[8] used these rifles in their jobs. A Death Watch assassin used a sniper rifle in a failed attempt to assassinate Satine Kryze on Coruscant. Onderon rebels' leader Steela Gerrera used one in her fight to liberate Onderon.[9] The defective clone Crosshair used a 773 Firepuncher rifle during the Clone Wars and continued to use the weapon to deadly effect in service to the Galactic Empire.[10]
A scout trooper using a DLT-19x targeting blaster.
In the Galactic Empire's Stormtrooper Corps, stormtrooper snipers were equipped with sniper rifles[11] including the DLT-19x targeting blaster.[12] Agent Del Meeko of the Inferno Squad, who used a sniper rifle during the Battle of Endor.[13]
In the New Republic era, Fennec Shand used an MK sniper rifle to snipe bounty hunters, Din Djarin and Toro Calican.[14] Migs Mayfeld used a cycler rifle with great accuracy to destroy rhydonium shipments on Morak while standing aboard a boarding ramp of Boba Fett's Slave I.[15]
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Notes and references[]
- ↑
Blaster Rifle in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Deserter"
- ↑ Star Wars: Commander
- ↑ Doctor Aphra (2020) 12
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Assassin"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Bounty Hunters"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Deception"
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "A War on Two Fronts"
- ↑
Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Devil's Deal"
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions
- ↑
Star Wars: Legion — Scout Troopers Unit Expansion (Card: DLT-19x Sniper)
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront
- ↑
The Mandalorian — "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger"
- ↑ The Mandalorian — "Chapter 15: The Believer"
