Romulan Disruptor

From Star Trek: Gamma One

A Romulan disruptor.

The Romulan Star Empire utilizes a phase disruptor, commonly referred to only as a disruptor, for its primary hand-held armaments. Disruptors fire a bolt of charged plasma created by microscopic amounts of antimatter. In Romulan weapons, a trail of antiprotons is left behind that can be detected by a standard sensor sweep. The amount of decay of the antiprotons can provide a good idea of when the disruptor was fired. Disruptors can be set to overload. The overload can occur in as little as thirty seconds, and the blast from an overloaded disruptor can reach four meters.

Power Settings

Setting	Charges Used	Effect
1 (Light Stun)	Uses 1 charge	Stun a human for 5 minutes.
2 (Heavy Stun)	Uses 2 charges	Stun a Human for 15 minutes, a Klingon for 5 minutes.
3 (Light Thermal)	Uses 8 charges	Cut a 1m hole in 10cm of steel in 3 minutes.
4 (Heavy Thermal)	Uses 15 charges	Cut a 1m hole in 10cm of steel or rock in 30 seconds.
5 (Light Disrupt)	Uses 35 charges	Vaporize almost anything, including humanoids and resilient alloys.
6 (Heavy Disrupt)	Uses 100 charges	Explode 600 cubic meters of rock into glowing rubble.