Grodin Tierce

Grodin Tierce was a human male that served as a Royal Guard and later played a role in a plot to disable the New Republic.

Biography
As with all Royal Guards, Tierce began his military career as a Stormtrooper under the designation TR-889. Tierce ostensibly proved himself an exceptional soldier and was chosen for training as a Royal Guard on Yinchorr.

In 4 ABY, Tierce was embedded in a Stormtrooper unit on Magagran battling an rebel cell. The periodic rotation of Royal Guards back into the Stormtrooper Corps proved vital to Tierce when a large number of Royal Guards perished in the destruction of the Death Star II.

At some point after the death of Palpatine, Tierce came to serve as a Stormtrooper officer under Grand Admiral Thrawn aboard Chimaera. Having impressed Thrawn with his martial skill and physical prowess, Thrawn chose Tierce to act as a template for a new type of clone two months before the Battle of Bilbringi in 9 ABY. Not merely a duplication of another proficient warrior or sleeper agent, Thrawn made use of a technology discovered in Mount Tantiss to transfer his own strategic genius to the flash learning matrix. While he had hoped to create a powerful group of warlords that combine Stormtrooper strength with his own military brilliance, the Tierce clone proved to be little more than a "tactically brilliant Stormtrooper" and the program was cancelled. When the original Tierce died in Thrawn’s campaign on Generis, the clone assumed the identity of its progenitor, the beginning of a development the mental instability. Like Thrawn, the clone Tierce failed to anticipate the betrayal of Rukh at the Battle of Bilbringi, and Tierce personally caught and killed the fleeing Noghri.

By 19 ABY, Tierce had become a Major and aide-de-camp of Moff Disra. Tierce used Disra as a foil and source of resources to execute a Thrawn-influence plan to stop the Imperial Remnant making peace and throw the New Republic into chaos. The soldier-genius hybrid hid modified copies of the Caamas Document to manage the latter, while a Thrawn imposter, Flim, and the forces of Disra accounted for the former.

In the end, Tierce's madness was his own undoing. Gilad Pellaeon was able to uncover the truth of the clone Tierce’s origins, reveal Flim as an imposter and settle with the New Republic for a series of peace talks. Tierce himself met his death at the hands of Shada D'ukal when attempting to kill Pellaeon.

Appearances

 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future