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- "Those clamps aren't like blasters."
- ―Pikka Adren
A landspeeder using magnetic clamps
A magnetic clamp was a piece of technology used to magnetically adhere non-magnetic objects to a metallic surface. Also known as magclamps, they were designed to tow stationary wrecks back to dock for repairs. They were big, clunky, and bad for precision work. Jedi Vectors were equipped with four magclamps that would fire cable lines to magnetically latch onto the starship or other object to tow. It could be rigged with Egarian silk or duralloy cabling.[1]
History
A trio of royal guards stationed aboard the Chimaera utilized modified Force pikes with magnetic clamps to subdue Ezra Bridger. Their weapons emitted a yellow field capable of lifting and immobilizing Ezra, albeit it took all three pikes to subdue him, something he took advantage of when he hurled several boulders and rocks from a stolen piece of the Lothal Jedi Temple at his attackers to disrupt them.[2] The boots of Darth Vader's armor featured magnetic clamps, which were utilized during his raid on Cylo's research base, when he breached a section of its hull, blowing the surrounding crew out into the vacuum of space.[3]
Appearances
- The High Republic: Convergence (and audiobook)
- The High Republic: Into the Dark (and audiobook)
- The High Republic: Light of the Jedi (and audiobook) (First identified as magclamp)
- The High Republic (2021) 9
- The High Republic: The Fallen Star (and audiobook)
- The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness (and audiobook)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Cut and Run"
Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "The Summit"
"Endangered, Part 1" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 7
Star Wars Rebels — "Iron Squadron"
Star Wars Rebels — "A Fool's Hope"
Star Wars Rebels — "Family Reunion – and Farewell"- Darth Vader (2015) 5 (First appearance)
- Star Wars (2015) 63
- War of the Bounty Hunters 5
- Shadow Fall: An Alphabet Squadron Novel (and audiobook)
- Shadow of the Sith (and audiobook)
- "The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku" (reprinted in Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens: Volume I)