Here’s the Star Wars Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology, the largest book in the series. It is probably my least favorite in the series which, given the overall quality of the book, is probably saying something.

The main problem for me is that all the illustrations that require humanoids in them to demonstrate scale or how a piece of equipment is worn uses an all-black silhouette. When this is identifiably Star Warsy, like the the silhouette of the fellow wearing Han Solo’s fur-lined Hoth jacket, it is fine (well, usually – not sure about the Slave Leia silhouette for slaving collars). When it isn’t someone obviously Star Warsy, though, it is some muscle-bound bloke who looks like he is naked except for his boots. It is a little weird.
That said, I am a sucker for technical drawings and there are plenty of them in here. Even if some of them are for absolutely ridiculous examples of Star Wars technology (glow rods?).








