Groznik

"Are you finally done beast?&hellip;Let go of me!"

- Loka Hask moments before his death

Groznik was a Wookiee who was enslaved by the Galactic Empire and later served with Rogue Squadron.

Biography


As a slave, Groznik was sent to work at an Imperial base. He was forced to load ordinance on supply shuttles. When a group of freedom fighters, led by Throm Loro, raided the base, Groznik went wild and started killing every Imperial in sight. Throm rescued the Wookiee before the Imperials could shoot him, and Groznik became life-debted to Throm. The two returned to Cilpar, and continued to fight against the Imperial presence there. During the Battle of the Cliffs, he took down a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle by throwing a boulder at it. Throm, however, was killed during that battle, and Groznik's debt passed to Elscol Loro.

He remained by Elscol's side through the liberation of Cilpar and during the negotiations for the Phantom Project on Mrlsst. However, Groznik was tricked into believing the ghost Jedi of Mrlsst was really Throm Loro, and was lured to Professor Rorax Falken's lab.

During the New Republic's attempt to rescue Professor Falken's asteroid lab from Imperial control, Groznik remained on the lab and kept Loka Hask at bay while Rogue Squadron used the Gravitic Polarization Beam to eliminate Hask's Interdictor Star Destroyer Dominator. The device exploded, taking the lab &mdash; and Groznik &mdash; with it. A statue of the heroic Wookiee was erected in the campus of the Mrlsst Academy in honor of his actions.

Behind the scenes
The backstory of Groznik being liberated from an Imperial supply base had the reference to Endor removed from the collected version in Omnibus: X-wing Rogue Squadron Volume 1.

In some slavic languages, "Grozny" means "Dangerous." It is also the name of the capital of the Chechen Republic in Russia.

Appearances

 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Rebel Opposition
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Battleground: Tatooine
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial