Mobile loading gantry

The mobile loading gantry, also known as a scrap walker, was a model of crane transport walker that was used by the Ferrixians on the planet Ferrix,Star Wars: Complete Locations, New Edition as well as by the New Republic at the Karthon Chop Fields on Karthon, which was under the jurisdiction of the New Republic Correctional Corps. Mobile loading gantries could be fitted with two claws, one on each side, and could be used for scrapping.
==Description==
Mobile loading gantries were large quadrupedal crane walkers deployed across various scrapping worlds, also garnering the title "scrap walker." They had four large legs, with two different cranes situated on the front and back of the main chassis. The front crane was tall, with a retractable hoist and claw-like attachment at the end, while the back crane was much smaller, but with a segmented grabber-like arm instead.
==History==
Mobile loading gantries were utilized as early as the Imperial Era, where they were deployed by the Ferrixians alongside other crane transports such as the HI-CT and the OI-CT to assist in large-scale scrapping efforts on the planet Ferrix. In 9 ABY, a number of mobile loading gantries were in use by New Republic prisoners across the Karthon Chop Fields on the planet Karthon. By around that same year, pieces of at least one mobile loading gantry had ended up among the scrap heaps on the planet Lanupa, where they had been incorporated into the shell of the mother trash crab, Tet'niss.
==Behind the scenes==
The mobile loading gantry first appeared in "Chapter 15: The Believer," where it was identified in the audio description. The vehicle was created by artists at Tippett Studio, who later reused parts of its model for scrap adorning the trash crab Tet'niss for the 2024 series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.
==Appearances==
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*The Mandalorian Season 2 7
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==Sources==
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
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*Star Wars: Complete Locations, New Edition
==Notes and references==
Category:Crane transport models
Category:Vehicle classes of the New Republic