LM-432 Crab Droid

The LM-432 Crab Droid is a droid tank used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the New Confederacy.

Characteristics

A six-legged LM-432 Crab Droid,

Ranging from three to twenty feet tall, the crab droid can use its legs to attack infantry in its way. As well as their powerful pincer legs, LM-432 crab droids are armed with twin blasters located on the bottom of the droid's body. These blasters are capable of rapid fire and a powerful double blast. They are also equipped with a vacuum pump system integrated into their forward pincers, which could suck up and then spit out mud to either clear space for Separatist forces or obscure the visual sensors of enemy forces. This earned them the nickname of "muckracker". Crab droids also use their front two pincers to whack opponents out of the way or to crush them with their ends. The crab droid is also equipped with three glowing photoreceptor eyes and communication/sensor antennae—making it seem like it is a living creature rather than a machine—a feature many of the Separatists' droids included.

LM-432 units are protected by armorplast-shielding that could deflect blaster shots. The largest legs of an LM-432 unit are tipped with heavy duranium stabilizers that could secure perches on even bedrock. Smaller LM-432s are unable to rid themselves of opponents who got on top of them—veteran clones knew to avoid their blaster cannons by leaping on top of them. When in pursuit of an enemy, it can move very fast in short bursts to overtake it, and in this way run over their target.

Appearances

• All Forgotten – "Destruction of Evil (Part 2)" (First TV Show appearance)