EVS Construction Droid

The EVS Construction Droid was a massive automated factory used on overdeveloped urban worlds like Coruscant and Bonadan for demolition and reconstruction of entire city blocks. It would tear down old, decrepit buildings and transform them into newer structures.

Description
The EVS stood at forty stories and was nearly the size of a skyscraper. It walked on two massive hydraulic legs with a smaller rear hydraulic leg to support it. In a detailed construction project, an EVS Construction droid moves a single step forward every half an hour though it can move much faster during razing projects. Its head is covered by countless demolition optic clusters which scans the structure in front of it, analyzing the weak points and comparing the architecture to master blueprints kept within its computer core.



Its two heavy shovel arms are used to demolish unneeded structures. The useful wreckage is then scooped into a cylindrical mouth for recycling while undesired rubble is placed into storage hoppers for disposal. An EVS unit has hundreds of retractable smaller limbs beneath its chassis which feature specialized demolition devices including implosion wrecking balls, plasma cutters, collerctor trowels, debris nets and electrical claws.

Within the EVS Construction Droid's processor mouth, the debris is carried by a conveyer belt into internal furnaces, smelting pods and an atomic incinerator where useful items were extracted and recycled. Raw materials are also separated and taken a corresponding factory which extrudes new girders, transparisteel sheets and blocks of compressed duracrete. These materials are then ejected via the rear of the EVS Construction Droid and assembled into polished new constructs by hundreds of fabricating arms. The intense heat generated by its internal factories are vented through discharge stacks though it is so hot that an EVS unit emits a faint glow under dark lighting.

The EVS is piloted by an outdated integrated droid brain which takes nearly three days to reprogram and reinitialize once interrupted. Thus, a small skeleton crew is assigned to an EVS unit to supervise the droid and make sure such shutdowns are not a frequent occurence. They reside within a small command cabin located in its head and their airspeededrs are parked at a small dorsal landing pad.

Operational History
Such droids were created and design by scientists commissioned by Emperor Palpatine during his reign over Coruscant.

In 7 ABY, during the New Republic's attempt to retake the planet, members of the elite Rogue Squadron under Wedge Antilles hijacked unit EVS-469 and used it to transport them to a subsidiary computer center when they sabotaged the planetary defensive shields, thus helping in the New Republic efforts to capture the planet.

Later, construction droids were used to rebuild damaged portions of the planet. Later, EVS-6962 uncovered a hidden Imperial interrogation center during a routine tear-down assignment under Wedge Antilles.

Appearances

 * X-Wing: The Krytos Trap
 * Jedi Academy Trilogy