N-K Necrosis

"Am I more in fact than just a droid? Am I alive, and perhaps&hellip; even the reincarnation of Grievous?"

- Necrosis's thoughts

N-K Necrosis was a highly advanced combat droid that was created from the cyborg body of General Grievous during the time of the Galactic Civil War. Produced by a cyberneticist working for the Galactic Empire as part of the N-K Project, the droid would later be destroyed by a group of spacers who were visiting the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk.

Creation
Shortly after Order 66 was enacted, Imperial stormtroopers were sent to retrieve General Grievous's shattered body from its resting place on one of the starfighter landing pads within Pau City on Utapau. Even though the armor was largely intact, most of the organic tissue had been destroyed when Obi-Wan Kenobi defeated the CIS's military leader. The remains were sent to one of Palpatine's secret warehouses on that world, where Grievous's former starfighter would later be kept. Years later, Nycolai Kinesworthy, a cyberneticist employed by the Galactic Empire, was led to the warehouse by High Prophet Merili to extract the body so that it could be the host of one of Kinesworthy's experimental droid brains. Treun Lorn named the outcome the "N-K Necrosis," the first physical manifestation of the "N-K" project, which Kinesworthy had named.



Taking the body back to his lab in the Myyydril Caverns of Kashyyyk, Kinesworthy soon started Necrosis's fighting lessons. He used a pair of IG-100 MagnaGuards (now dubbed NK-3s to fit in with the project), which IG-72 had captured earlier on Kinesworthy's behalf, to train the new brain in Grievous's old body in the arts of lightsaber combat just as the former host of the body had once trained the MagnaGuards. Necrosis used a carmine double-bladed lightsaber which had been found in Grievous's starfighter, apparently one of his earliest trophies which he had stolen from a Dark Jedi. The lightsaber had in fact once belonged to Darth Zannah and contained Bane's Heart, a unique alchemically-treated Sith crystal, which had been handed to Zannah by Bane himself. He was also presented with the weapon which had, in fact, destroyed Grievous; a modified BlasTech DT-57 blaster, which had been dubbed the "Grievance Striker", as well as a Utapaun Nightblade. Though he was also given Grievous's old starfighter, Soulless One, he was never known to have used it.

Because of the advanced heuristic programming from Kinesworthy's new droid brain, Necrosis became just as worthy of an adversary as the former host of his body had been, though Kinesworthy assured Necrosis that he was in fact better. Strangely, along with the considerable fighting prowess that he had acquired through training with the MagnaGuards, Necrosis also acquired an almost Human penchant for analysis and often wondered whether he was in fact superior to Grievous and not simply a shell of him. He soon found himself wondering who Grievous was, feeling something akin to envy towards the living intelligence that had once inhabited the body. The answers he reached provided him with a sense of satisfaction, as he also pondered if he was in fact the reincarnation of Grievous and more than just another battle droid.

Death
Unfortunately for Necrosis, such theoretical musings were short-lived as a group of spacers invaded his home in the Myyydril Caverns during the height of the Galactic Civil War, destroying both him and his NK-3 guards in a fierce battle. The group then looted everything from his body, taking his blaster, the crystal for his double-bladed lightsaber, as well as his ship, Soulless One, and even dismantled Necrosis's dead body for its valuable components to sell on the Invisible Market. It was rumored that Necrosis's armorplast mask had been bought by a high-ranking Imperial Admiral who displayed it as a Kaleesh work of art. Though it is unknown who purchased it, it was thought to have perhaps been Thrawn himself, who was known to collect the art of all species.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees