Electro capsule

The electro capsule or suicide shocker was a suicide-assisting weapon that could be implanted inside an individual's mouth. It consisted of a triangular tooth implant that was activated by biting down, resulting in an electric shock that killed the user.
==Description==
The suicide shocker was a small triangular electric device that could be implanted and hidden in an individual's tooth. The device was activated by biting down on the tooth containing it, which released an electric charge that killed the wearer. When not worn, the electro-capsule could be stored in a liquid-filled canister.
It was intended to be a last-resort measure to prevent agents from having information recovered from them through interrogation, allowing them to kill themselves before they could be questioned. However, the device could be discovered and removed by an interrogator aware of its existence.
==History==
In 18 BBY,The events of take place in 18 BBY per the reasoning here. Clone X, a Clone X trooper of the Galactic Empire, used the device when Clone Captain Rex interrogated him on the planetStar Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy Coruscant. Around 18 BBY,The events of take place around 18 BBY per the reasoning here. Captain Pearce killed himself by using a suicide shocker after the Clone Underground took over his Gozanti-class cruiser over the planet Balmorra. Sometime later in the same year, another Clone X trooper, CX-1 was captured by the Clone Underground when he attempted to kill fugitive Separatist Senator Avi Singh during his secret meeting on the moon Pantora with Imperial Senator Riyo Chuchi. CX-1 was prevented from using his shocker when Rex had Captain Howzer remove it from his mouth while stunned.
Rex indirectly referenced electro capsules in his book—The Secrets of the Clone Troopers—which was published at some point following the 5 ABYStar Wars: Timelines end of the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Republic's successor state, the Empire, and the Alliance to Restore the Republic. He noted that the Empire's Clone X troopers were often willing to end their own lives to keep the details of their missions secret, which they sometimes did by using the devices to escape interrogation. On the moon Trask, a captain serving an Imperial remnant also used a suicide shocker in 9 ABY when he was being interrogated by Mandalorian Lady Bo-Katan Kryze, who took over his Gozanti-class Assault cruiser.
==Behind the scenes==
The electro capsule first appeared, albeit unidentified, in "Chapter 11: The Heiress," the third episode in the second season of the Disney+ live-action series The Mandalorian, which aired on November 13, 2020. The episode's audio description identified it as the suicide shocker. The episode guide of "Tipping Point," the fourteenth episode of the animated television series Star Wars: The Bad Batch second season that aired on March 22, 2023, later identified it as the electro capsule.
==Appearances==
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*The Mandalorian Season 2 Junior Novel
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*The Mandalorian Season 2 3
==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Secrets of the Clone Troopers 
==Notes and references==
Category:Electrical weaponry
Category:Personal weaponry