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Mineral Exploiter

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these starships, developed by the Hutts under the auspices of the Orko SkyMine corporation, were designed to process the ores found in asteroids. These huge, boxy ships were simply huge cargo ships which were connected to mouth-like scoops. The scoops collected asteroids and held them in place while turbolaser emplacements blasted the asteroids to rubble. The throat of the Mineral Exploiter then sifted the rubble for the more precious ores, sending them to processing units that formed them into ingots. The useless material was discarded. They were designed by Bevel Lemelisk, who had been captured by Durga the Hutt for the purpose of designing a superweapon the Hutts could use to control the galaxy. Unfortunately, he designed them too well, for the first two devoured each other, thinking that the ores they each contained were found in regular asteroids.