Heert, an officer at the Imperial Security Bureau Headquarters on Coruscant, begins his career as a dutiful staffer working for Dedra Meero. He plays a support role in her investigation into the rebel spy known only as Axis and chases down leads related to a stolen N-S9 Starpath unit. After Meero is secretly reassigned to Ghorman, Heert is promoted to Supervisor and given oversight of the Axis investigation.