History
The Rigellian stasis gun was a hand-held weapon used by the Rigellian alien Tana Nile. She considered the weapon to be specially powerful and used it to shot Ulik, the powerful Rock Troll warrior, while he was fighting Nile's Asgardian allies. She had assumed that any living being would be defeated by the stasis effect, but the non-natural Ulik resisted it, being only stunned. Thor Odinson eventually defeated Ulik, but he admitted that he would have failed if it hadn't been for Nile's stasis gun. He then collapsed an empty building on the opening of a tunnel used by the Trolls, and asked Nile to melt the wreckage using her gun, which she did.[1]
Soon afterward, Tana Nile joined Thor Odinson and other friends to attack the slavers at Golden Star. Nile used her gun to great effect during the battle, but the item eventually lost its charge and, instead of shooting a beam, it only shot harmless sparkles. Nile then resorted to her melee skills for the reminder of the skirmish.[2]