Magnatomic grip panel

Magnatomic grip panels were a type of gripping panel used in the palms and inner surface of super tactical droids' hands. The grip panels enabled them to easily pick up and wield most weapons, tools, and equipment made for organic beings without dropping them. Magnatomic grip panels were also used in Phase I clone trooper armor to seal the plastoid-alloy plates of the armor to the underlying body glove.
==Description==
During the Clone Wars, a conflict between the Separatists and the Galactic Republic, the Republic's clone troopers' phase I armor, consisted of twenty form-fitting plastoid-alloy composite plates that were sealed to a temperature-control body glove via magnatomic gription panels.
Magnatomic grip panels were also used for the palms and inner surface of the Separatists' super tactical droids' hands. These sophisticated gripping panels enabled the droids to easily pick up and wield most weapons, tools, and equipment made for organic beings without dropping them. The grip panels were amongst the many improvements made to the super tactical droids' armor and limbs over their T-series predecessors. Super tactical droids such as General Kalani and Commander Aut-O used their grip panels to wield E-5 blaster rifles more effectively than the T-series units. The grip panels also allowed the super tactical droids to hold other droids in their hands, such as a buzz droid, like one droid who commanded a hijacked Venator-class Star Destroyer, sentient beings, such as the Zilkin Colonel Meebur Gascon, who was briefly held by Aut-O, as well as equipment such a datapad, which one droid who worked under Admiral Trench during the Battle of Anaxes held in its hands.
Aut-O used his grip panels to fight in hand-to-hand combat with Gascon, R2-D2, and D-Squad. The Carida super tactical droid and Kraken also used their grip panels to fight in hand-to-hand combat with R2-D2 and Anakin Skywalker respectively.
In 2 BBY, seventeen years after the Clone Wars officially ended, Kalani used his grip panels during the last battle of the Clone War to hold Clone Captain Rex's helmet in his hands after his forces captured Rex and the Spectres Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, and Garazeb Orrelios on the planet Agamar. Later in the mission, Kalani once again wielded an E-5 blaster rifle using his magnatomic grips, but Rex destroyed the blaster.
==Behind the scenes==
In the current Star Wars canon, magnatomic grip panels first appeared attached to the body gloves of phase I clone armor in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. The grip panels were first identified by name in the "Droid Directory" of the fifty-first issue of the Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 magazine published by De Agostini in January 2018, indicates that issues of Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 was shipped in sets of four every month, and comments by consumers on the page state that approximately twenty-five issues had been sent out by June 2021. As states that the first issue was sent out in January of that year, issue 51 was released in January 2018. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, gription panels, which were also known as magnatomic grip panels, held the armor plating of clone troopers against their body gloves. They first appeared in the 2004 novel Republic Commando: Hard Contact, written by Karen Traviss.Republic Commando: Hard Contact
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Galactic Defense
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*Darth Maul — Son of Dathomir 1
*Darth Maul — Son of Dathomir 2
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*Yoda 7 
*Star Wars (2020) 38 
*Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
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Category:Droid parts