Hutt crawler apparatus

A Hutt crawler apparatus was a cybernetic enhancement used by Hutts to allow faster and more nimble movement. These devices usually consisted of six-to-eight cybernetic legs attached to a platform, on which a Hutt would place their body. The platform could either be controlled via manual controls or through cerebral implants that allowed the Hutt to move its new "legs" as if it were part of its body. Some crawlers could even be equipped with shield generators, sensory equipment, and blaster cannons, effectively turning the Hutt itself into a combat walker - the legs of some crawlers may also be equipped with magnetic attachments and advanced servo motors to allow Hutts to navigate vertical surfaces at rapid paces.

While thousands of wealthy Hutts used these devices to navigate, the most notable examples were the crime lord Grakkus and his Hutt followers. A group of Hutt warriors operating on Nar Kreeta decided not to rely on mercenaries or slave-soldiers to do their bidding, insisting that they were capable of handling their own tasks, and began carrying out contracts for other Hutts as mercenaries using armed and armored crawler devices - their fast movement and quick reflexes quickly earned the nickname "Hutt spiders".

History
After Hutts began relying on their massive armies of Weequay, Nikto, and Klatoonian slave-soldiers and mercenaries, many saw little need to be physically fit and, through rapid evolution, most Hutt subspecies lost their agility and some of their physical strength. Many Hutt warlords used wheel-based or slave-drawn and eventually repulsorlift platforms to move around for millennia until scientists in the employ of the Hutts developed the crawler apparatus. Its expensive nature meant that the technology could only be afforded by the wealthiest of Hutts - so much so that Hutt "law" dictated that only members of the Grand Hutt Council and their most respected vassals were permitted to use them, while lesser Hutt lords were still limited to their repuslorlift platforms. Some exceptions to this "law" were made, such as a mercenary gang known as the Hutt spiders operating on Nar Kreeta and Grakkus the Hutt's entourage.