Grif Grawley

"Howdy, son, how's your dad?"'' ''"Citizen Grawley? Is that you? This is wonderful! How's your wife?"

- Grif Grawley and Kyle Katarn, upon their meeting on Ruusan

Grif Grawley was a male Human farmer originally from the moon Sulon. His wife was Carole and his daughter was Katie. He was the creator of a surveillance droid named Fido.

Running from the Empire
"Once he put us on the ground and got things organized, he borrowed a skimmer and took off. Everybody said he was crazy. Who knows when he ran into the bouncers, but he did. They call him "the knight who never was," whatever that means."

- Grif Grawley, on Morgan Katarn

Grif Grawley was a Human male farmer who lived on the planet Sullust's moon of Sulon with his wife Carole and his little daughter Katie during the Imperial Period. Grif was on friendly terms with fellow farmer Morgan Katarn and his son Kyle, who eventually left for the Imperial Academy. Tired of living under the oppressive heel of the Galactic Empire, the Grawleys and a number of other Sulonians tried to exercise their freedom of speech by organizing anti-Imperial meetings, holding them in the privacy of their homes at first, and then in loosely organized gatherings. When it was decided to move their demonstrations to the streets of Sulon's principal city of Baron's Hed, the protesters asked Katarn to join them, but he declined the offer, fearing that severe repercussions may follow from the Empire.

Deriding Katarn a coward and certain that the Empire would not dare to resort to violence, the Sulonians nevertheless held their demonstration, disbanding it before the Imperials could react and follow with arrests. However, due to a series of holographic recordings taken during the protest and a traitor in the demonstrators' midst, the Empire soon established the identities of the so-called "agitators" of the insurgency, including Grawley and his family. One night, the Empire struck back, dispatching a force consisting of All Terrain Armored Transports and probe droids to burn the protesters' homes.

When this happened, Grif and Carole were outside their house and bore witness to the attack firsthand. They first saw an Imperial probe droid passing near their home, and then a series of blaster shots tore through their house, setting it on fire. Trying to rescue Katie, who was inside at the time of the attack and who was desperately crying for help, Carole bolted inside; Grif barely pulled her back before the structure collapsed, killing their daughter. Carole was also caught on fire; she survived but was left with prominent scars on her face. Two more families were massacred that night, and the Empire made no attempt to hide its involvement in the attacks, leaving clear AT-AT tracks near the scorched buildings. Fearing that more punishment may follow&mdash;not excluding the possibility of transportation to slave labor camps&mdash;the protesters turned to Katarn for help, admitting that he had been right all along. Around 2 BBY, Katarn, who had secret ties with the Alliance to Restore the Republic, secured help and funding from Alliance sympathizers and came up with a plan to move the people away from Sulon.

In a first stage of his plan, Katarn hid Grif, Carole, and three hundred and forty-five more men, women, and children on an abandoned space station in the Sulon system, the life on which was difficult due to severe cold and over-crowdedness. Katarn then hired the blockade runner Cyclops captained by the smuggler Jerg to transport the fugitives to another planet. Ten years prior to that, Jerg had stumbled upon the planet Ruusan, which he claimed was free of Imperial presence, and Katarn chose to take the Grawleys and the other Sulonians there. Among the few possessions that the would-be colonists brought with them to Ruusan were fertilized gra ova, a product of genetic engineering that allowed to grow the gra herd animals. During the long trip to the planet, Grif took his time to memorize the electronic manual for the gra, learning about their instincts. After helping the men under his care settle in Fort Nowhere, a military installation built by Jerg's smuggling gang and used as a storage for their goods, Morgan left the planet. Before he did so, however, Morgan had ventured into the countryside, where he encountered the native Bouncers. The settlers noticed that all the Bouncers they met called Katarn "the Knight who never was," although neither Grif nor the other colonists knew what that meant.

Droid encounter
"So, I tangled with an Imperial probe droid, rammed it with my airspeeder, and hoofed it here. It could have been a loner, dumped into our atmosphere by a passing ship, or it could be part of something a lot worse. I suggest you pack what you can, load your families on skimmers, and follow me. There are places where you can hide."

- Grif Grawley, unsuccessfully trying to warn fellow settlers of an incoming attack

Having survived the Battle of Fort Nowhere, Grawley assisted novice Jedi Kyle Katarn. He was killed in 5 ABY fighting AD-43, a Viper probe droid.

Behind the scenes
In the audio adaptation of Dark Forces: Jedi Knight, he was voiced by Jay Hornbacher.

Appearances

 * Dark Forces: Jedi Knight
 * Dark Forces: Jedi Knight audio drama