Melee weapon

Melee weapons were weapons designed for close- to medium-ranged combat. Such weapons included clubs like the gaderffii used by the Tusken Raiders of Tatooine,Ultimate Star Wars swords,Star Wars: Uprising and vibro-axes. In the sparring gym of his flagship, the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Chimaera, Grand Admiral Thrawn kept a number of melee weapons, which he used against DT-series sentry droids to train his fighting skills.
By the time of the Cold War, people usually preferred to fight from long range, using blaster rifles and pistols. As a consequence, physicians were not used to treating wounds inflicted by melee weapons such as lightsabers.Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization
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