Assembler

There is only one scientific specimen of a creature known as an Assembler - Ku'dar Mu'bat, a mastermind that acted as a go-between criminal organizations and potential employees.

The Assembler, a huge arachnoid, lives in a large tubelike web that floats in space. An Assembler creates Nodes - smaller arachnoid drones that live to do the Assembler's bidding. It has been proven by Boba Fett that Assemblers evolve from Nodes, then kill their old master to take their place.

Assemblers are connected to their webs by neurofibers, and the webs are to the Nodes in the same way. Ku'dar Mu'bat had many Nodes to carry out day-to-day things. Lookout gazed through his single-lens eye to view the webs exterior, looking for problems and such. Calculator was much like a computer, interpreting data, and Indentifier identified objects, ships, and people to see if it was valuable or not or dangerous or not. Three nodes worked in Mu'bat's docking bay: Signaler guided ships in by w3aving his hands and with his glowing green eye, and Docker and Handler secured ships to the web with thier tentacles. Listener heard sounds around the web with his tympanic membranes, and Balancesheet worked with Calculator to maintain Mu'bat's finances. It was finally Balancesheet that rebelled against its creator, obvioulsy having reached a level of sentience where a node begins to want to become the next Assembler.

Assemblers absorb all particles that float by them that are not valuable, such as dust and space debris. Further information on the Assembler is unknown, such as how they digest food. They have four legs and two strange claws that seem to act either as hands or extra feet. Unlike spiders, Assemblers hav only six appendages, if you do not count the strange furry things that grow on their backs that they probably absorb food with. If you did count these, the Assembler would have 12 appendages. Either way, the Assembler has to many or too little apprendages to be a spider.