DLT-19D heavy blaster rifle

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The DLT-19D heavy blaster rifle was a long-range heavy blaster rifle and longblaster that was a variant of the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle.

Description

A variant of the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle^[2] produced by BlasTech Industries and sold for 3,100 credits,^[1] the DLT-19D heavy blaster rifle^[2] was a model of long-range^[6] heavy blaster rifle^[2] that also served as a longblaster. It was also able to act as a sniper rifle.^[5] A unique galven pattern with auxiliary barrels that tapped into an expanded central energy chamber provided higher power output and an increased rate of fire. The weapon featured an optical telescopic sight to improve long-range accuracy^[1] for sniping purposes^[7] and two underbarrel devices, one of which was a glowrod.^[4]

History

Capture of Galen Erso

Overview and landing on Lah'mu

The DLT-19D was part of the standard equipment kit for the elite death troopers of the Galactic Empire.

The DLT-19D was part of the standard equipment kit available to the Galactic Empire's elite death troopers,^[8] resulting in some members of the death trooper division wielding the heavy blaster rifle while on duty, such as in the field or while on guard duty,^[4] as those death troopers preferred it to the E-11D blaster carbine^[7] also present within their standard kit.^[8] Those death troopers who used the rifle were designated as DLT-19D Troopers. During one incident in a rocky environment, a DLT-19-equipped death trooper took aim with the rifle as TIE strikers flew overhead.^[9] The DLT-19D was used by some of the death troopers within Director Orson Callan Krennic's guard squadron.^[4]

In 13 BBY,^[10] it was wielded by three of the six troopers who accompanied the director across the plains of^[4] the planet Lah'mu in the Outer Rim Territories,^[3] where the former Imperial scientist Galen Walton Erso had taken to hiding with his family. The other three death troopers arrived with E-11Ds.^[4] Beyond serving in their typical capacity as Krennic's guardians,^[8] the gathered death troopers acted as a death squad^[11] and the muscle who would force Erso to come back to the Empire,^[8] under which Erso had previously helped to develop Project Stardust until discovering the damage his work could do. As Krennic greeted Erso and tried to convince his former friend to return of his own free will, the death troopers stood by^[11] silently, all while wielding their E-11Ds and DLT-19Ds.^[4] The rifles, as well as the blaster pistols, of each soldier were noticed by Erso, who believed the weaponry granted each death trooper the appearance of being ready for war.^[11]

Target: Lyra Erso

"Do it."

―Director Krennic gives the command to fire on Lyra Erso^[4]

As he spoke with Erso, Krennic dispatched four death troopers—including two armed with DLT-19Ds—to search the Erso homestead, only for Erso's wife Lyra to reveal herself with a blaster pistol, threatening Krennic as the two remaining death troopers, including the remaining DLT-19D-equipped trooper, took notice^[4] after Krennic pointed out her arrival.^[11] While the DLT-19D-equipped trooper focused on and aimed at Lyra, the other soldier, armed with an E-11D blaster carbine, forced Galen to stay in place via their blaster.^[4] At Krennic's order, the trooper did not fire on Lyra^[11] but kept their weapon raised at the woman,^[4] who herself did not look at the death trooper but instead directly at Krennic.^[11] While both Ersos were kept at blaster-point,^[4] even if Lyra noticed they were holding their blasters low due to Krennic's order,^[11] Krennic gave the Ersos a chance for come with him as "heroes of the Empire,"^[4] a term that hid the life awaiting them as well-treated prisoners.^[12] Ultimately accepting Lyra's refusal, he then ordered the DLT-19D-equipped trooper to shoot her.^[4]

Death troopers armed with DLT-19Ds on Lah'mu in 13 BBY.

Before the command, both death troopers were,^[4] despite their full armor covering their features,^[4] clearly tense, which was noticed by Lyra, who knew all she had to do was properly twitch to fire on Krennic, even if she herself was shot.^[11] Nonetheless, the soldier quickly complied with Krennic's command by firing the DLT-19D and killed Lyra, whose own blast^[4]—fired as soon as Krennic gave the command to kill her^[11]—only managed to injure Krennic with a shot to the shoulder;^[4] realizing she had underestimated Krennic, Lyra had nonetheless found strength in the knowledge that her and Galen's daughter, Jyn, would be safe and attempted to kill Krennic with her blaster shot to save her husband, but the death trooper's shot made her own blast go wide. She only heard^[11] the DLT-19D's shot^[4] after feeling the pain of the blaster bolt spread across her body. Struggling through his own pain,^[11] Krennic revealed Jyn's existence to his death troopers and ordered them to find her, leaving the soldiers, including those with the DLT-19D, to search across the area for the young girl.^[4]

Unknown to all, Jyn had left her hiding place and watched her mother's execution^[4] in horror,^[13] quickly then choosing to flee back to safety inside a cave. One death trooper armed with a DLT-19D joined another trooper in searching through that nearby cave but quickly departed, believing there was no trace of the girl and unaware that the young Erso was watching from both from behind cover. Despite the failure to find Jyn, the death troopers departed from Lah'mu with Krennic, who had successfully captured Galen and could force him back to work on the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station.^[4] In Krennic's mind, delaying the death troopers' response to Lyra's presence had been an act of selflessness and a chance for her to come with them for Galen's benefit. To Krennic, he had ignored what he thought was the more tactically sound option of allowing the death troopers to kill her outright, as he knew the soldiers would have preferred, in order to give her the chance to stand down.^[11]

Galactic Civil War and beyond

"I'm going!"

―Rebel Taidu Sefla, immediately before being shot with a DLT-19D^[4]

In 1 BBY,^[10] two death troopers armed with DLT-19Ds stood guard outside of Krennic's Delta-class T-3c shuttle ST-149 on^[4] the Outer Rim planet^[3] Eadu shortly before a rebel raid. Shortly thereafter, members of Krennic's guard continued to use the heavy blaster rifle during the Battle of Scarif, which marked the formal start of open war between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Empire. A shot from a DLT-19D was used to kill Chirrut Îmwe and wound Baze Malbus, members of the Guardians of the Whills who had joined with the Rebel Alliance.^[4]

Years later, the DLT-19D was used by specialist stormtroopers within the First Order, the successor state to the Empire. Those specialists utilized the weapon as a sniper rifle and used DLT-19s in the same color scheme as the Empire.^[5] Meanwhile, a DLT-19D rifle in service to a stormtrooper of the 709th Legion incorporated white details seen on most other First Order Army weapons. As part of the First Order's growing presence on the planet Batuu during the First Order-Resistance War^[14] in 34 ABY,^[10] that 709th stormtrooper armed with a DLT-19D was deployed to Black Spire Outpost.^[14]

Behind the scenes

"I worked as weapon artist on Star Wars BattleFront II. This is the DLT-19D. I was able to reuse a lot of the high poly from the original DLT-19 from Battlefront 2015, made by Erik Hallberg."

―Joel Dabrosin, on the DLT-19D in Battlefront II^[15]

The DLT-19D heavy blaster rifle was first seen in the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.^[4] The weapon reappeared in the video game Star Wars Battlefront II, with DICE weapon artist Joel Dabrosin designing its in-game model. Dabrosin was able to pull much of the high polygon work from the standard DLT-19, which had already been designed by artist Erik Hallberg for 2015's Star Wars Battlefront.^[15]

A death trooper aims a DLT-19D at Lyra Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. — A death trooper aims a DLT-19D at Lyra Erso in *Rogue One: A Star Wars Story*.

The DLT-19D is never outright named in the Rogue One novelization by Alexander Freed, but the book's novelization of scenes^[11] that feature the DLT-19D in the film^[4] confirms its appearance within, even if it is only called a blaster or rifle in the text alone.^[4] The same is true for the junior novelization by Matt Forbeck.^[13] The Freed's novelization suggests that^[11] the two^[4] death troopers standing with Krennic when Lyra Erso revealed herself on Lah'mu aimed at the woman, culminating in her being shot multiple times.^[11] As seen in the film, however, only the death trooper with the DLT-19D aimed at Lyra, whereas the E-11D-equipped trooper kept it trained on Galen Erso, and Lyra is only shot once by the DLT-19D. In the film, the trooper also raises their weapon at Lyra off-camera between shots,^[4] whereas the novelization sees the troopers raise their blasters at Lyra almost immediately after she shows herself.^[11] A similar mistake is seen in the junior novelization, which sees multiple death troopers aim at Lyra as she appears and later fire on her,^[13] as opposed to a single death trooper taking the shot.^[4] This article sides with the film's depiction of events.