DC-15x sniper rifle/Legends

The DC-15x sniper rifle, also known as the DC-15x sniper blaster, was a type of sniper blaster rifle used by clone sharpshooters during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and later by clone stormtrooper snipers during the Galactic Empire's Great Jedi Purge. The DC-15x was a modified version of the standard DC-15A blaster rifle.
==Description==
A modified version of the BlasTech Industries DC-15A blaster rifle,Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary the DC-15x was a sniper blaster rifle that fired narrow, high-intensity beams of blue energy that were effective against battle droids and organics alike. The blaster was equipped with a brown stock and a brown grip, an added scope, and was given extra accuracy for long-range engagements. It could fire up to six shots before having to be reloaded, and its scope only featured one magnification level.Star Wars Battlefront II: Prima Official Game Guide
==History==
===The Clone Wars===
The DC-15x sniper rifle was used extensively by the Grand Army of the Republic's clone snipers, who trained exclusively with the weapon prior to being deployed in the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. AT-RT drivers, who were specialized clone pilots that were trained to operate All Terrain Recon Transports, developed a familiarity with the DC-15x during their scout training, and frequently used the weapon during their missions. In addition, the weapon was also sometimes used by clone trooper captains in the first stages of the war, and certain clone scout troopers and clone airborne troopers in the later stages of the war.
The DC-15x saw service from the conflict's very inception, including during the First Battle of Geonosis, the First Battle of Kamino, the Battle of Rhen Var, the Battle of Mygeeto, the Battle of Kashyyyk, the Invasion of Tatooine, and up until the Battle of Cato Neimoidia, where it was used by the Force-sensitive clone trooper X2 as well. Clone snipers of the 501st Legion also utilized the DC-15x during the First Battle of Geonosis, the Battle of Mygeeto, the Battle of Felucia, the Battle of Kashyyyk, along with the Battle of Utapau.
===Imperial Era===
In 19 BBY, some clone sharpshooters of the 501st carried the DC-15x sniper rifle into the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for Operation: Knightfall. Following the operation, the DC-15x was used by clone snipers against Jedi Master Ferroda, in the wake of Order 66's activation on the planet Cato Neimoidia.
Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, the DC-15x sniper rifle was used at some point between 17 BBY and 15 BBYThe narration in the Nintendo DS version of the Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron video game states that fifteen years have elapsed between the battle on Dantooine and X2's first meeting with Rahm Kota. Their meeting occurs at a point between the formation of the Rebel Alliance and the Battle of Yavin. The New Essential Chronology places those events in 2 BBY and 0 BBY, respectively. Using simple math to deduct fifteen years from the earliest possible date of the meeting and the latest one, the battle on Dantooine can be approximated to a time period between the years 17 BBY and 15 BBY. by clone stormtrooper snipers, during the Battle of Dantooine and the Great Jedi Purge. In 12 BBY,The Essential Atlas the DC-15x saw use once again, now in the hands of the Kaminoan resistance's anti-trooper snipers, who used the weapon against the Empire's 501st Legion throughout the Kamino uprising. 
==Behind the scenes==
The DC-15x sniper rifle first appeared, albeit unnamed, in Star Wars: Battlefront, a 2004 Star Wars Legends first and third-person shooter video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts. It was later identified in the Star Wars Battlefront: Prima Official Game Guide, a strategy guide published by Prima Games in the same year. The DC-15x sniper rifle's design is identical to the E-11s sniper rifle's design.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Battlefront 
*Star Wars: Battlefront II
*Star Wars Battlefront
*The Clone Wars: The Enemy Within
*Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
==Sources==
*Star Wars Battlefront: Prima Official Game Guide 
*Star Wars Battlefront II: Prima Official Game Guide
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==Notes and references==
Category:Blaster sniper rifles