Particle beam

Later, when the Silver Dawn was by the Vermilion Birds pirates at the Lake asteroid field, several high energy level particle beams pierced through the Silver Dawns deflector shields and hull and struck the portside's coolant chamber, destroying its temperature regulator and storage cans of coolant liquids. The flammable coolant were thus ignited under high temperatures, setting the entire chamber and surrounding areas on fire. With the Silver Dawn in jeopardy mid-battle, the mechanic Sean was sent to refill the ship's portside coolant tanks. Sean eventually succeeded, and the Silver Dawn repelled its attackers, capturing three pirates for interrogation in the process.

Particle beams were first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in the magazine issue Star Wars Helmet Collection 5. Its first canonical appearance was in a chapter of the Chinese web novel The Vow of Silver Dawn that was released in 2021, although the beam had appeared in LEGO format beforehand in the non-canon 2020 mobile game LEGO Star Wars Battles. Mounted on turret towers in the game, particle beam projectors fired a stream of green energy at targets, delivering increasing damage and eventually reducing them into particles.