Great Heep

The Great Heep operated an enormous ore processing plant on Biitu in the early days of the Galactic Empire. Set up by the Empire, it immediatly began raping the planet of its natural resources.

The body of the Heep was composed of tubing as well as assorted parts from other droids, one side filled with various bouncing pistons beating in an appalling, terrible rhythm, and one arm chopped off at the elbow. Grinding blades filled its mouth, with tiny mechanical robots living in its hull like worms living in a mammal's stomach, feeding off its excess. Two delirious humans constantly fed the beast's massive boilers with fuel, while a droid harem kept smaller, unassuming droids in luxury, treating them to oil baths (much like the one Luke gave C-3PO on the moisture farm) and other droid pleasantries before their eventual demise, where the Great Heep would consume them to add to it's own structure. Adventurer Mungo Baobab, while on Biitu, discovered that the Heep was siphoning moisture away from the planet's farmlands to cool its immense internal machinery. Seeing the native Biituians plunged into the ensuing drought, Baobab destroyed the tyrannical machine with the help of his droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO. The Imperial ravaging of Biitu had ended.

Sometime after its defeat, the Great Heep was found by a relative of Mungo's, Ebenn Q3 Baobab. Using the clout and wealth attached to his person, Baobab restored the droid and placed it on display at the Baobab Museum of Science.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Droids
 * The Great Heep (part 1)
 * The Great Heep (part 2)