Dracon beam

Dracon beam
Creator	Yeerk Empire
Made	1968
Owners	Yeerk Empire
Users	Yeerk Empire Tobias Marco
Appearances
TV Series	Animorphs
First Appearance	The Invasion The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (chronologically)
Last Appearance	The Beginning

"Ax explained to us once that this was a unique Yeerk technology. The Andalite shredder whose technology the Yeerks used in developing the Dracon beam kills instantly, painlessly. The Dracon beam is specifically modified to destroy more slowly. The Yeerks want their enemies to feel the agony of cells exploding."

―Cassie

Dracon beams are handheld weapons reverse engineered using Andalite Shredders and Ongachic technology. It was the standard weapon used by the Yeerk Empire, and was also used by Helmacrons.

Creation

"These fighters are armed with two Dracon beam weapons, a blending of Andalite shredder technology with some Ongachic particle-wave technology."

―Dak Hamee to Alloran-Semitur-Corrass

The Dracon beam was created in 1968 on the Hork-Bajir homeworld, when the Yeerks combined Andalite shredder technology with some of the Ongachic particle-wave technology that they had stolen. They are a blending of Andalite Shredder technology with Ongachic particle-wave technology. Like Shredders, Dracon beams separate particles and essentially disintegrate objects and individuals. However, while Shredders were designed to kill as painlessly as possible, Dracon beams were purposely altered to inflict excruciating pain as they disintegrated their targets.

Usage

Iniss 226 holding a Dracon beam

"It's called a Dracon beam, huh? What's it do?"
"It fires an energy beam which causes an exceedingly painful death. Which is why we'd really prefer it if you didn't fire it."

―Loren and Arbron

Dracon beams are the standard-issue weapon of the Yeerk Empire. When the Yeerk Empire followed Elfangor to Earth, Dracon beams were fired by both the Blade ship and a Bug fighter to disintegrate Elfangor's fighter. A few days later, when the Animorphs first attacked the California Yeerk pool complex, a group of Controllers, including Taxxons, armed themselves with Dracon beams, although they were never fired. Less than a month later, Dracon beams were used by Hork-Bajir-Controllers as well human Park Ranger Controllers to shoot animals in the forest area around a lake where their Truck ship was siphoning water. Tobias stole one of the Dracon beams from a Taxxon and used it to destroy the controls of the Truck ship, caused it to crash into the ground. One of the Yeerks then used a Dracon beam to disintegrate one of Price-Cut Polly's wings.

When the Yeerk Empire learned that the Animorphs were using a distress signal to trick them into arriving in a quarry, a hundred Hork-Bajir-Controllers were assigned to take positions around the quarry, armed with Dracon beams. When the Yeerks noticed some of the Animorphs running toward a Bug fighter, a Dracon beam was fired where they were running, although the Animorphs narrowly avoided being hit by it.

Appearances

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In chronological order:

• The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
• The Andalite Chronicles
• VISSER
• The Invasion
• The Visitor
• The Encounter
• The Message (mentioned)
• The Predator
• The Threat
• The Suspicion

Trivia

• Both Dracon beams and Shredders have been compared to the phasers from Star Trek.

Gallery

"Someone took a picture of me? Not cool. Do you see what I'm wearing? I'm Spandex-boy. Totally not cool." The image gallery for Dracon beam may be viewed here