Stun Blast

Past the cover of the half-destroyed landspeeder, Beck watched as one of their four opponents went down - the Kubaz, hit twice in quick succession by stun blasts. The remaining three seemed to hesitate as if stunned by the precision and speed of the attack, and the second team of stormtroopers opened fire then, downing the Gran. The human, his clothing a mixture of salvaged military and refugee, all bundled beneath a filthy cloak turned and tried to run.

"Stop him," Beck said.

She needn't have spoken at all. The human hadn't made it four strides before he was shot in the back twice in quick succession. His body lit a sudden blue, suffusing him with charged particles that overloaded his nervous system all at once. Through her cybernetic eye, she watched as the human's biosigns went wild for an instant, then collapsed to baseline as the electrical impulses that drove his brain were suddenly savagely forced into reset by the shock to his system