Handheld Gravity Weapon?

[tetsuoh]

Okay we see large scale gravity weapons all the time.

But is there any precedence for character scale gravity weapon - such as a tractor beam style or singularity creator? Or maybe one that acts as telekinesis does?

[Whill]

I'm not sure about a precedence, but to me it just seems too powerful to be something handheld, and this is even for a galaxy with blasters and lightsabers.
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[Ning Leihrec]

I always considered tractor beams (with very few exceptions) to be limited to the capital scale. Not many space transports equip them, even though they'd make sense as a utility. Moving cargo pods and other bodies in space for example. No, they're too big for personal use imo.

[CRMcNeill]

Considering how ubiquitous repulsorlifts are, plus how repulsorlifts technology seems to encompass more than simply "pushing against gravity", a repulsor weapon would not be too much of a stretch.
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[tetsuoh]

repulsorlift technology by its own description requires the use of a fixed sub-nuclear "knots" of space-time - this would be hard to represent in a weapon without it being a form of ammunition which is the standard idea used by most of the generally capital scale gravity based weaponry.

not to mention repulsor technology works against a local gravity well and interdiction technology works to create gravity wells - neither of these work independently of a gravity well - like tractor beam tech does.

Not to mention this picture of a battle droid on wookiepedia intrigues me.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam

Now a projector of that size would of course probably be speeder scale and the mass connected to projector was a factor in the pulling force behind beam. In other words the force that could be applied to the targeted object was a matter of how much energy could be exerted before the projector tore free of its housing.

That means that even if one could be made character scale the force it could exert could only affect character scale objects with any reliability. Anything bigger would stand a fair chance of resisting the pull or pulling in the projector instead if a lock was achieved.

This would in fact fall into the precedent of the energy tether as well.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_tether

This means that some forms of tether and grapple that are energy based - such as the energy binders used on podracers, the handcuffs by the same name, as well as the electro grappler's used by some pirates, are in fact a form of low grade energy tether/tractor beam. Which makes sense in my book.

espcially the electro grapplers - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Electro-grapple

Because this let them moor their ship to larger vessels. It did not pull them in, but rather pulled the pirate ship in so they could board and kept their ship in place alongside the target.

[cynanbloodbane]

Don't forget the Repulse-Hand in Cracken’s Rebel Field Guide (page 41).
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[tetsuoh]

if anything I would denote that cybernetic as a low grade shield pulse in a single arc instead of any type of gravity or inertia tether style of weapon.

[Pel]

I give you the Squib Tensor Rifle. Good for righties & lefties. Ideal for quick, discrete interventions.
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