Bilari electro-chain whip

For other uses, see whip.

The Bilari electro-chain whip was a weapon used by Supreme Leader Snoke's Elite Praetorian Guard. It remained in the shape of a long rapier-like weapon until snapped by its user into a whip-like weapon. In its whip form, an electro-plasma current ran through it. It could be wound around an opponent like a chain to hold him or her still, or could strike someone like a traditional whip, and was resistant to lightsaber strikes.

Description

A Praetorian Guard activating the electro-plasma current on their whip.

The Bilari electro-chain whip was one of the most unique weapons in the Elite Praetorian Guard arsenal, able to function as a sword-like melee weapon with an electro-plasma current or be shifted into a whip depending on combat style. It could also be used to ensnare an opponent's weapon.^[1]

History

One of the three Imperial Praetorian Guards, assigned to Moff Gideon to aid in the battle for Mandalore, stabbed the Heavy Infantry Mandalorian Paz Vizsla with a Bilari electro-chain whip first before the Mandalorian warrior succumb to his death.^[2]

A Bilari electro-chain whip in sword form (both deactivated and activated status depicted)

In 34 ABY,^[3] two members of the Elite Praetorian Guard carried their Bilari electro-chain whips aboard Snoke's flagship, the Supremacy, when General Armitage Hux and Kylo Ren of the First Order went to talk with Snoke about their failure. Sometime later, when Ren took the Force-sensitive scavenger Rey to Snoke, the Praetorian Guards used their whips along with their other weapons to combat Rey and Ren after the latter killed Snoke. Their whips were no match for Rey's and Kylo's lightsabers, resulting in the deaths of all the guards. One of the Bilari whip-wielding guards nearly overwhelmed Rey by ensnaring her lightsaber blade and drawing her in, but she freed herself and killed the guard before swinging his weapon with her blade toward the red banner causing it to light a fire, while Ren beheaded the other after a brief duel.^[4]