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The Kaleesh warrior Qymaen jai Sheelal, later known by the name of Grievous, was born on the planet Kalee located in Wild Space to a family of his flesh and blood father.

History[]

A male Kaleesh named Qymaen jai Sheelal[8] was born to his flesh-and-blood father[9] on the planet Kalee[1] located in Wild Space[10] during the midst of an almost continual war between the Kaleesh[2] and their planetary neighbor,[11] the Yam'rii, an insectoid species[12] from the desolate planet[13] Huk[14] in the Huk system[15] next to[12] Kalee's own.[15] The Yam'rii had brutally overrun numerous nearby planets, plundering their resources and selling their inhabitants into slavery. Their homeworld, Kalee, was then targeted, with horrific results for the Kaleesh, who became victims of their technologically advanced enemies. Sheelal's father taught him how to use[2] a slugthrower,[16] the Czerka Arms Outland rifle. By the age of eight, he had killed at least 40 enemies.[2]

Pre-robo grievous

A statue of Grievous during his days as a Kaleesh warrior, holding a decapitated enemy's head, a Skrilling species.

Decades before the Clone Wars,[17] Sheelal—who had the ability to excite and motivate his people[2]—led them in a ruthless war against the Yam'rii,[12] became one of the greatest military leaders,[18] a proud,[4] honorable,[2] and revered warrior,[19] and the Kaleesh grew to regard him as a legendary figure over time.[2] Sheelal rose quickly to the position of warlord, then turned his attention to the stars and continued his conquests throughout space[20] and eventually took on the name "Grievous."[6]

Grievous had traveled[21] and fought for years with the Izvoshra, the best Kaleesh warriors, and he now assembled them as his bodyguards.[2] Over the course of his exploits, Grievous had toppled nations, killed kings, and murdered legends.[22] Grievous then launched an onslaught against the Yam'rii[16] with fresh vigor and resolve on the offensive, leading the Kaleesh forces to drive the Huk out of their world. However, the enemies unexpectedly turned to the Galactic Republic for assistance. When the Republic[2] and the Jedi Order had intervened[12] and sided with the Yam'rii,[14] hundreds of thousands of Kaleesh died from starvation,[2] which led Grievous to develop a personal vendetta against them.[14]

Dooku, Count of Serenno,[20] and Darth Sidious, his Sith Master, saw potential in him.[12] Grievous' hatred for the Republic and the Jedi drove him to join the InterGalactic Banking Clan[2] as an agent. His request to have his loyal Izvoshra bodyguards was rejected,[6] with IGBC droids instead replacing them as the forces at his command, which he despised. When Grievous demanded a more intelligent bodyguard, Dooku ultimately commissioned the creation of the IG-100 Magnaguards. He was formidable in his activities and soon became one of IGBC's most valuable assets. By then, his actions had attracted the attention of Dooku, who had important plans for him.[2]

Grievous chose to undergo cybernetic upgrades,[23] and over time, Grievous introduced profound changes to his cybernetic body,[2] gradually trading his biological parts for upgraded mechanical ones.[24] Grievous claimed to view his cybernetics as improvements[4] over a weaker organic form.[25] Furthermore, Dooku betrayed Grievous[2] by sabotaging his shuttle[12] and causing it to crash,[18] destroying the majority of his organic Kaleesh body[19] that remained.[4] All the same, later historical work doubted the idea that Dooku was involved as a manipulator in Grievous's transformation: at the end of the day,[26] Grievous had chosen to become a cyborg[4][23] and thus was not really a victim to some greater design.[26]

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Grievous as a cyborg warrior

A brilliant tactician,[5] Grievous served as the Supreme Martial Commander of the Separatist Droid Armies for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars.[27] He was recruited by Count Dooku to join the Separatist Movement.[9] Despite not being Force-sensitive,[25] Grievous, using his cybernetics and skills in Lightsaber combat,[28] served as a Jedi hunter for the Confederacy[5] and killed many Jedi.[4] The Kaleesh cyborg was ruthless as he invaded planets and fought Jedi in the Clone Wars, during which he was feared by the Galactic Republic.[5] Grievous also maintained a personal fortress on Vassek 3, where he kept a pet roggwart named Gor, but the creature was killed by Jedi Kit Fisto and Nahdar Vebb when they infiltrated the lair.[4]

On one occasion, Grievous invaded a Jedi temple on the planet Ledeve, where he encountered a Force vision in which voices mocked him for cutting away his organic self: according to those voices, Grievous had replaced any connection he had to the Force in a meaningless crusade to destroy the power he failed to understand. Instead, they claimed, Grievous was someone who thought he understood a new power he had found in cybernetics, yet the voices declared he was small and would never grow beyond that. Grievous was enraged by what he heard and ordered his orbiting Providence-class Dreadnought to bombard the temple, which Grievous took as a victory over the voices because they burned just as easily as anything else. However, a blue light then escaped the temple.[25] In 19 BBY,[29] days after he became the Separatist Head of State[30] after his mentor in Lightsaber combat, Count Dooku, was killed in the Battle of Coruscant, Grievous was killed during the Battle of Utapau by his nemesis, Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi.[7]

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ultimate Star Wars
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 "The Separatists" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ Star Wars Journeys: Beginnings
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Lair of Grievous"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 General Grievous in the Databank (backup link)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Battle Droids and Other Droids of War" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
  8. ↑ Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 57 Droid Directory: IG-100 MagnaGuards
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Star Wars Made Easy
  10. ↑ Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game
  11. ↑ Star Wars Helmet Collection: General Grievous Helmets: General Grievous (Spanish version)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Star Wars Helmet Collection: General Grievous Helmets: General Grievous
  13. ↑ Star Wars Starships & Vehicles: Wheel Bike History of the Ship: Grievous' Wheel Bike (English version)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Rise of the Separatists
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 StarWars.com Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version)
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "The Separatists" — Star Wars Encyclopedia (English version)
  17. ↑ Star Wars Helmet Collection: General Grievous Helmets: General Grievous places the Kaleesh-Yam'rii war decades earlier than the Battle of Coruscant, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places in 19 BBY; therefore, the conflict must take place in 29 BBY.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Star Wars: A Galaxy at War
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Star Wars: Alien Archive
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Star Wars: The Dark Side
  21. ↑ Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
  22. ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
  24. ↑ The Star Wars Book
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Age of Republic - General Grievous 1
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Star Wars 100 Objects
  27. ↑ Star Wars: Force Collection (Card: General Grievous [Last Stand] (★★★★★))
  28. ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Grievous Intrigue"
  29. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  30. ↑ Star Wars: On the Front Lines
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