Energy weapon Energy weapons were any device that intended to use directed energy in a destructive manner . Anti - personnel energy weapons . An energy weapon could be a handheld weapon that fired energy rather than a projectile of some sort . Dalek gunstick energy weapons were part of their casings , though were originally removable . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) Sontaran soldiers typically carried some form of blaster . ( TV : " The Time Warrior " ) The Chancellery Guard on Gallifrey used a weapon called a staser . According to one account , staser fire prevented regeneration . ( TV : " Arc of Infinity " ) However , the Twelfth Doctor shot the General once with the sidearm of the President ' s personal security , triggering the General ' s regeneration . ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) Jack Harkness carried a Compact laser deluxe , which was able to defeat the androids Trine - E and Zu - Zana when they tried to kill him . Shortly afterwards , Jack improvised an energy weapon out of the defabricator . ( TV : " Bad Wolf ) " The Judoon carried hand held weapons . ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ) Chantho used an energy weapon against the Master . While not immediately fatal , the injury triggered a regeneration . ( TV : " Utopia " ) The Preachers carried large energy blaster s to fight Cybermen ; while the Doctor modified them to be be used against Daleks , they were ultimately ineffective . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) The Sea Devil s carried energy weapons . ( TV : " The Sea Devils " ) The Master ' s Tissue Compression Eliminator was a particularly exotic form of energy weapon , later replaced with a laser screwdriver . River Song carried a disintegrator pistol which was capable of an Alpha Meson burst . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " / " The Big Bang " ) The Anubian s could fire an energy weapon through their palms . ( TV : " Curse of Anubis " ) The personnel aboard Space Station Nerva carried energy pistols that could stun and kill . Their armoury section also contained fission gun s that were much more formidable . ( TV : " The Ark in Space " ) The guards on an Earth - like planet carried light - guns that used the power of liquid light beams to strike in their victims ' eyes and control their movements . ( TV : " The Savages " ) When trying to stop the ' Metaltron ' Dalek in Van Statten ' s vaults , the Doctor armed himself with a powerful looking alien gun . ( TV : " Dalek " ) Ray guns . Several species and individuals specifically identified their energy weapons as ray guns . The Morok s , ( TV : " The Space Museum " ) the Cat - People , ( PROSE : " Invasion of the Cat - People " ) and the Scorchie s used ray guns themselves . ( AUDIO : " The Scorchies " ) Whilst the Monstron s armed their Engibrain soldiers with ray guns . ( COMIC : " The Menace of the Monstrons " ) Some merely referred to themselves ( or others as possessing " ray guns " ) as the Dalek s did in reference to their own gunstick s ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) and Jamie McCrimmon and the Second Doctor did when describing the Chameleons ' weaponry . ( TV : " The Faceless Ones " ) On one occasion the Second Doctor invented a ray gun which he tested on an Earth - like planet . When the Master of Spiders attacked them , he used the ray gun to kill one spider and to destroy the Master ' s mechanical spider . ( COMIC : " Master of Spiders " ) He later used the ray gun on a giant squid which attacked him on Nook . ( COMIC : " Peril at 60 Fathoms " ) Large - scale energy weapons . The Daleks used ship - mounted energy weapons during their invasions of Earth in the 21st ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) and 22nd century . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) They also utilised Special Weapons Dalek s that were equipped with an enormous energy cannon capable of vaporising several other Daleks in a single shot . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) Other ship - mounted weapons such as a Jathaa sunglider weapon , deployed by the Torchwood Institute in 2007 during the Sycorax ' s appearance over London on Christmas day were also capable of massive destruction , destroying the aforementioned Sycorax and their ship . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) The human - built airship carrier " Valiant " also carried a Jathaa sunglider energy weapon . ( TV : " The Poison Sky " ) The predominantly human built and constructed town - sized CyberKing was fitted with an energy weapon on its arm . ( TV : " The Next Doctor " )