AEA-83 Prospecting Crane

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Homebrew Reference Book: Clone Wars Saga Edition Fan Sourcebook - Vehicles and Vessels

The AEA-83 Prospecting Crane is a garbage crane in use on many scrap-filled worlds such as Metalorn and Raxus Prime. The AEA-83 possesses a large Grasper Claw to pick up wreckage and move it to another nearby area. Labor Droids and load-lifters can usually do this job more efficiently, but cranes with sentient operators are still used on worlds where sentient labor is cheaper. Some planets have other reasons for using the cranes, such as spores or ionization effects that render more complex processors such as those found on Droids useless.

The AEA-83 Prospecting Cranes are also sometimes used for search and rescue missions in disaster areas, though Tractor Beams are typically much more effective. Countless AEA-83s separate trash on Metalorn for smelting, as Droids are generally not possessed of the intelligence their sentient counterparts, and thus aren't capable of sorting scrap as efficiently.

Capabilities[]

The AEA-83's Grasper Claw is capable of making a Grapple attack as if it had the Pin feat, or crushing attacks as if it had the Crush feat. The claw is capable of picking up a maximum of 1 metric ton of cargo.

The AEA-83 Prospecting Crane can also make an Area Attack to any adjacent square (1-Square Burst) by dropping its 1 Ton of cargo which is treated as a Huge object (see Falling Objects). The Prospecting Crane also possesses a single spare tire and Tool Kit on its back to aid in repairs.