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Great Heep

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The Great Heep

Production information
Homeworld	first deployed on Biitu
Date destroyed	15 BBY
Creator	Abominor
Class	Administrative/ore processor
Technical specifications
Gender	Masculine programming
Sensor color	Yellow
Armament	Mouth blades
Equipment	Moisture eater
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era
Affiliation	Abominor Galactic Empire

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"Your duty is to serve me and Biitu for the rest of your days. Escape is impossible. Any droid caught trying to leave will be used for scrap."

―The Great Heep^[src]

The Great Heep was an agent of the Abominor who operated an enormous ore processing plant on Biitu in the early days of the Galactic Empire. Set up by the Empire, it immediately began eliminating the planet of its natural resources.

1 Biography
2 Behind the scenes
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 External links

BiographyEdit

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 and other droid pleasantries before their eventual demise, where the Great Heep would consume them to add to its 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.

Behind the scenesEdit

The Great Heep was voiced by legendary blues performer Long John Baldry, who would later be known for his performance of Dr Robotnik in The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog.