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| SWAMP CRAWLER (MUDMAULER) |
| 21 AE | Crawler 01 |
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| [I picked out a nice crawler for us. Pretty handy on this misbegotten, mudball planet] |
| The swamp crawler featured in Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster |
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| An all-terrain vehicle used by the Empire on Circarpous V, the swamp crawler ended up helping Luke Skywalker in his quest to find the Kaiburr crystal. The swamp crawler - also known as a mudmauler - was an Imperial ground vehicle used on remote outposts, where Imperial troops and officers would encounter rough terrain. The crawler featured a unique central wheel, which allowed its drivers to turn the vehicle almost immediately, in response to the terrain. The crawler was split into three segments, with the two driver's seats before the controls, and a rear-facing blaster cannon on the end segment. Two more seats were fixed to the middle of the vehicle, which ran on six large wheels. Though the vehicle was labelled as an all-terrain crawler, it occasionally had trouble negotiating the swamps of Circarpous V - also known as Mimban. When an old Force-sensitive called Halla helped Luke and Leia track down the Kaiburr crystal, she located a swamp crawler. They blasted out of its Imperial garage and into the Mimban swamps, looking for the Temple of Pomojema. However, the deep swamps proved too much for the crawler, which began sinking. Halla thought she had found a safe path through the bog, but it turned out to be a prone wandrella. Before Halla could turn the vehicle around, the creature clamped its deadly fangs into it, sending its riders flying. A while later, Halla and the others located another swamp crawler. They sent their Yuzzem allies, Hin and Kee, to take out its Imperial drivers, before using it to reach the Temple. Though Darth Vader intercepted them, Luke and Leia were able to retrieve the crystal and escape in the crawler with Halla. |
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| Type: All-terrain crawler Affiliation: Galactic Empire Weapons: Blaster cannon Crew: 1 pilot 1 copilot 1 gunner |
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