Gunstick The gunstick was the standard personal Dalek weapon . Though it was removable , it almost always occupied a space in the left socket opposite the manipulator arm . Though the Dalek s sometimes replaced the manipulator arm with a more specialised tool , they almost never replaced the gunstick , except with another kind of weapon . It was also known as an exterminator , ( COMIC : " The Doctor Strikes Back " ) blast - gun , ( COMIC : " Invasion of the Daleks " ) beam distributor , Dalek beam gun or simply Dalek gun . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) History . A possible precursor to the gunstick was built by Davros on Skaro during the Thousand Year War . It seemed to be a larger weapon with a more devastating impact , but the sound matched that of the gunstick . ( AUDIO : " Corruption " ) After developing the Mark III Travel Machine , Davros created the gunstick . He demonstrated this before the Scientific Elite and attempted to have the Dalek test the new device on the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan , but Ronson interceded . He would later become the first Dalek victim when Davros had him exterminated . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) The effect of the gunstick remained standard throughout most of the history of the race from their creation onwards . During the Last Great Time War , gunsticks were devolved into sword s on the Neverwhen planet front as a result of time phasing . ( AUDIO : " The Neverwhen " ) Gunsticks could be made into rifles that could be used by Dalek - controlled humans . ( TV : " Evolution of the Daleks " ) Gunsticks were also used by the Daleks ' humanoid Dalek puppet s , emerging from their hand . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) When the Twelfth Doctor hired Lumpy as a companion , he upgraded his non functioning gun stick , but added a bit of sonic to it , to make it a stun gun instead of a killing machine . ( GAME : " The Doctor and the Dalek " ) The Twelfth Doctor and used a gunstick . The Doctor used it to kill Handmine s , and Missy used it to kill Colony Sarff . ( TV : " The Magician ' s Apprentice " , " The Witch ' s Familiar " ) Rusty forcefully removed his gunstick to prove to the Twelfth Doctor he genuinely desired to help him . ( TV : " Twice Upon a Time " ) Characteristics . Physical effects . As stated above , the gunstick was an energy weapon . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) Although occasionally the energy was invisible , ( TV : " The Daleks " , " Death to the Daleks " ) the discharge beam generally appeared blue . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " , et al . ) It had a " negative effect . " Later models and variants exposed the skeletal structure of the victim . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , et al . ) Early sources of information about the Daleks described being hit by the weapon as akin to being struck by lightning , suggesting the energy involved was roughly analogous to an electric charge . Sometimes victims of the weapons appeared charred . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) Rachel Jensen , examining the body of a human killed by the discharge of a Renegade Dalek ' s gunstick during the Shoreditch Incident , said the cause of death appeared to her to be " massive internal disruption " ( paraphrased by the Seventh Doctor as " his insides were scrambled " ) . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) She later theorised that they might have been using plasma weapons . ( PROSE : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) The Dalek Factions present in the area at this time were using what appeared to be slightly different weapons , in that they fired bolts of energy rather than beams ( and the weapons of the Imperial Dalek s discharged yellow - orange bolts rather than blue ) . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) During the massacre inside the GeoComTex Vault , the Dalek involved was able to use conductive substances such as metal and water to considerably extend the effect of its gunstick , strongly suggesting that these beams also possessed electrical properties . ( TV : " Dalek " ) While the Tenth Doctor had to regenerate when grazed by a blast from a gunstick , ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) the Eleventh Doctor survived a direct gunstick blast , albeit with some injury . However , this blast originated from a weakened Dalek that wasn ' t at full power . Due to a Time Lords ' shown resistance to electricity , this supports that it is composed of electricity in some manner . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) However , on a number of occasions Daleks showed a definite vulnerability to the weapons of their own kind . ( TV : " The Evil of the Daleks " , " Planet of the Daleks " , " The Five Doctors " , " Resurrection of the Daleks " , " Revelation of the Daleks " , " Remembrance of the Daleks " , " Evolution of the Daleks " , " Victory of the Daleks " , " Into the Dalek " , " The Time of the Doctor " ) The Daleks at the Siege of Trenzalore apparently used a massive version of the gunstick mounted onto a battlefield tank . However , it was not seen being fired because the tank with the armament in question had broken down . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Settings . This weapon had a non - lethal setting which paralysed the target . The Daleks said that repeated exposure to the paralysis effect would result in permanent neural damage . ( TV : " The Survivors " ) At full power , the gunstick could totally disintegrate the victim . ( PROSE : " Prisoner of the Daleks " , " The Magician ' s Apprentice " ) By the time of the Daleks ' 2009 invasion of Earth , their gunsticks possessed a " maximum extermination " setting ; Three gunsticks at this setting were enough to destroy a medium - sized human dwelling ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) or disintegrate a human being or a Time Lord . ( TV : " The Magician ' s Apprentice " ) Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm could disintegrate impure Daleks with a " total obliteration " setting . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Daleks in World War I set their weaponry to level 3 to paralyse Edward Anderson temporarily . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) During the supposed extermination of Clara Oswald and , they were both vaporised , rather than just simply killed . ( TV : " The Magician ' s Apprentice " ) A Dalek could both reload and fire its gunstick by shouting " exterminate " repeatedly , as the weapons were keyed into their emotions . ( TV : " The Witch ' s Familiar " ) Weaknesses . If removed from the Dalek , the gunstick could still be fired by an enemy ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " , " The Magician ' s Apprentice " ) or even at the Dalek itself , killing it . ( TV : " Evolution of the Daleks " , AUDIO : " Jubilee " , PROSE : " Engines of War " ) Additionally , the beam could reflect back and destroy the user if it struck a reflective surface . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " , TV : " The Witch ' s Familiar " , GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) Initially , the weapon had little or no effect on mechanical beings , though repeated fire was able to incapacitate a Mechanoid . ( TV : " The Chase " ) However , by the time of the Daleks ' war with the Movellans , that flaw had been completely rectified . ( TV : " Destiny of the Daleks " ) The gunstick was also unable to do any real damage to Sentient oil beyond briefly disfiguring it . ( TV : " The Pilot " ) Behind the scenes . According to the non - narrative material " The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide " , the gunstick was made from a metal called Silcronian which was heat - resistant and could repel laser rays or ruby heat which the Daleks used as ammunition .