Technology: Ships: Grapplers

• Tech name: Grappler Units

• Creator: Earth: Underwater explorers Space: Colony engineers

• #1 User: None

• Background Information: 
  In their early days, grapplers can be traced back to
  pre-space colonization times when such arms were used on unmanned deep ocean probes in ship wreck expeditions. When the need for mass repairing of space craft and colonies, grappler arms were introduced as an idea for handling of large machinery. No one knows exactly where the concept first originated in space, but someone began recording history when there were already many grappler units in service on space colonies and large spaceships. Over time they began to advance much, and the concept was eventually adapted by pirate engineers to small fighters. Next came outlaws and