Shoulder-mounted armament

Shoulder-mounted armaments were a diverse style of weapon configurations utilizing shoulder and often back attachments that fired some form of over-the-shoulder weaponry intended to free the hands of the user. These armaments were generally autonomous, and sometimes had built-in blaster technology,^[1] while others allowed for the attachment and removal of external blaster pistols.^[4] The projectile types of these blasters could vary widely, with some firing lasers^[1] while others could even launch micro-missiles.^[3]

The Parwan bounty hunter Derrown, also known as "the Exterminator," sported a shoulder-mounted blaster^[2] between 20^[5] and 19 BBY.^[6] Mercenary Migs Mayfeld used a pseudocybernetic automated weapon mounting armor attachment equipped with a DT-12 heavy blaster pistol prior to and during the Bothan-Five incident^[4] in 9 ABY.^[7] That same year,^[8] two participants in the Hunters of the Outer Rim utilized shoulder-mounted weaponry as part of their kits.^[3] Human^[9] Hunter Imara Vex wore a shoulder-mounted micro-missile launcher,^[10] while the KX-series security droid K-A0S was equipped with a back-mounted SE-14r light repeating blaster.^[11]

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Appearances

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Box" (First appearance)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Crisis on Naboo"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brothers"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Eminence"
• War of the Bounty Hunters 5
• Crimson Reign 1
• Bounty Hunters 26
• Crimson Reign 5
• Hidden Empire 1
• Hidden Empire 2
• Hidden Empire 3
• Hunters: Battle for the Arena (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: Hunters (First identified as Shoulder mounted blaster)
• The Mandalorian Junior Novel (and audiobook)
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian — "Chapter 6: The Prisoner"
• The Mandalorian 6
• The Mandalorian: This is the Way

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