Gription, also known as a magnatomic grip, was a friction activated molecular adhesive used to hold two objects together.
Used in gription panels, gription clips, and gription seams, gription was a friction activated molecular adhesive, and was used to hold two objects together through use of an extremely strong molecular bond, capable of holding up to hundreds of kilograms - as demonstrated by gription clips. This molecular bond could be deactivated by depressing certain section of the adhesive layer - a trait used in gription panels to great effect. Gription was used in many applications; INS-444 window installation droids used gription panels in order to transport transparisteel windows, and the DLT-20A blaster rifle made use of a magnatomic grip to keep the user's hand securely around its grip.
A secondary repulsorlift based type of gription also seemed to exist, used by UT-ATs by the Grand Army of the Republic. This type of gription worked by reversing the effect of their repulsorlift skids, creating a reverse repulsorlift "gription" field to hold the vehicles in place.
Appearances
Sources
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary (First identified as Magnatomic grip)
- The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Unstable Terrain Artillery Transport (UT-AT) in the Databank (original site is defunct)