Grif Grawley Grif Grawley was a Human male farmer who lived on the moon Sulon with his wife Carole and their daughter Katie . When the Grawleys became involved in an anti - Imperial demonstration , the Empire retaliated by burning their home in an attack that killed Katie and scarred Carole . In order to escape further repercussions from the Empire , Grawley and his wife , along with almost four hundred other Sulonese people , were spirited away by the Rebel Alliance sympathizer Morgan Katarn to the planet Ruusan . After helping the colonists settle on the planet , Katarn returned to Sulon . Years later , Grawley ran into an Imperial probe droid , PD 4786 , while escorting his gra herd animals on a long - range forage . Grawley was able to destroy the droid , and , under the impression that the Empire had found Ruusan , tried to warn the other settlers , but they did not listen . Imperial forces led by the Dark Jedi Jerec then attacked and destroyed the settlement of Fort Nowhere . The survivors turned to Grawley , who agreed to help them and soon became their leader , as they settled in the ruins of an old temple in the unexplored part of Ruusan . Shortly afterward , Morgan Katarn ' s son , Kyle , and his companion Jan Ors , arrived on Ruusan and met Grawley and his men , telling them that Morgan had been killed by Jerec . The younger Katarn came to Ruusan on behalf of the Rebel Alliance in an attempt to stop Jerec from obtaining the power located within Ruusan ' s fabled Valley of the Jedi . Grawley assisted Katarn in his task and led him to the native Bouncer s , one of which , Floater , agreed to lead Grawley and the two Rebels to the Valley . While en route , however , the group ran into one of Jerec ' s probe droids , AD - 43 . Grawley engaged the droid in melee battle , and used his hunting knife to damage its systems . The droid carried Grawley on its carcass , flew into a canyon wall and exploded , killing Grawley . However , Katarn and Ors were still able to complete their mission , and successfully killed Jerec before he could fully harness the power of the Valley . Biography . Running from the Empire . A Human male , Grif Grawley was a farmer who lived on the planet Sullust ' s moon of Sulon with his wife Carole and their young daughter Katie during the Imperial Period . Grawley was on friendly terms with fellow farmer Morgan Katarn and his son Kyle , who eventually left for the Imperial Academy . Tired of life under the oppressive heel of the Galactic Empire , the Grawleys and a number of other Sulonese people 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 Barons Hed , the protesters asked Katarn to join them , but he declined the offer , in fear of severe repercussions that might follow from the Empire . Deriding Katarn as a coward and certain that the Empire would not dare to resort to violence , the Sulonese nevertheless held their demonstration , but disbanded 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 with a military force that consisted of All Terrain Armored Transports and Viper probe droids to burn the protesters ' homes . Grawley 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 and set their house on fire . In an attempt to rescue Katie , who was inside at the time of the attack and cried desperately for help , Carole bolted toward the home ; Grawley barely pulled his wife back before the structure collapsed , which killed their daughter . Carole had also been severely burned , but nonetheless survived 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 , evidenced by clearly - visible AT - AT tracks near the scorched buildings . In fear of additional punishment — not excluding the possibility of transportation to slave labor camps — the protesters turned to Katarn for help , and admitted 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 developed a plan to move the people away from Sulon . In the first stage of his plan , Katarn hid Grawley , Carole , and 345 other men , women , and children on an abandoned space station in the Sullust system . Life aboard the space station was difficult due to severe cold and overpopulation . Katarn then hired the blockade runner " Cyclops " , which was 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 Sulonese people 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 them to grow the gra herd animals . During the long trip to Ruusan , Grif took time to memorize the electronic manual for the gra , and learned about their instincts . After he helped the men under his care settle in and near Fort Nowhere , a military installation built by Jerg ' s smuggling gang and used as a storage for their goods , Katarn left the planet . Before he did so , however , he ventured into the countryside , where he encountered the native Bouncer s , globe - like creatures that sailed on the wind . The settlers noticed that all the Bouncers they met after Katarn ' s departure called Katarn " the knight who never was , " though neither Grawley nor the other colonists knew what that meant . Prior to his departure , Katarn also taught Grawley and the colonists a primitive communications code that he used in order to send signals to his agricultural droids back on Sulon . As the code was no longer used by the Empire , the colonists could use it to safely communicate between themselves and employ as a sort of friend - or - foe identification system . Droid encounter . As the years passed , Grawley and Carole settled on their newfound home planet , and lived in a house dug in a hillside twenty klicks south of Fort Nowhere , faced south to take advance of the winter sun . On Ruusan , they returned to their work as farmers , although they found it much harder than it had been on Sulon due to scarcity of water , and they came to refer to what they did as " outcropping . " In addition to the harvest of crops , the Grawleys looked over a personal garden and possessed a herd of gra . Although his life entered a steady stream , Grawley could not forget the sight of his daughter ' s death and started to drink . On the eve of Katie ' s birthday around 4 ABY , Grawley attempted to anesthetize himself with a bottle of an alcoholic beverage called the " Old Trusty " at the Smuggler ' s Rest cantina in Fort Nowhere . He was so drunk that Carole had to come to the cantina , load him into an airspeeder , and drive him home . The event made Grawley a target for mockery from the cantina patrons . In 5 ABY , six months after his intoxication incident , Grawley traveled in his speeder to the countryside , following the gra on a long - range forage . As night approached , the creatures traveled to the nearby hills in order to escape predators , following their genetically - programmed instincts . Grawley stopped at Hill 461 for night and activated Fido , a boomerang - shaped machine of his own design that was equipped with a variety of sensors and was supposed to alert him to any danger . After he used a comm unit to say goodnight to Carole , Grawley checked Fido ' s sensor readings . The machine assured him that everything was alright , except for the fact that the network of weather and surveillance satellites , established by the smugglers who had built Fort Nowhere , had gone offline . Grawley was not very alarmed and assumed that the problem would soon be fixed . Grawley spent some time looking at the sunset with a bottle of the Old Trusty , but , thinking that Carole would not approve of him drinking , he took his electrobinoculars and walked to the highest point of the hill , hoping to have a glimpse at the native Bouncers , whom he found fascinating . Switching to infrared mode , Grawley saw what he at first thought was a Bouncer . However , he then noticed that the heat signature was too intense and too high in the air , and that the object moved against the wind . Grawley realized that the object was an Imperial probe droid and that it had spotted him . He wondered if the probe had been launched by a passing scout ship , which was consistent with standard Imperial scouting procedure , or if it had been deployed by a ship currently stationed in orbit , which would have explained why the satellites had gone offline . Whatever the case , Grawley realized that he must destroy the droid and warn the other settlers . Taking the controls of his speeder , he drove straight at the machine , grabbing his blaster rifle and standing up for better aim . He shot at the droid twice ; the first shot missed entirely , while the second one barely scratched the droid ' s carcass . The droid responded by firing its own weapons at his speeder . Grawley realized that the droid outgunned him , turned the vehicle , and pushed it down toward the surface . The tactic helped Grawley gain more forward momentum , while at the same time forced the droid to convert more of its on board computing capacity to low - level navigation . Taking advantage of his knowledge of the local terrain , Grawley headed toward a nearby ridge and stopped his vehicle at the top . The droid lost the speeder ' s heat signature behind the rock , and switched to its holocams . Grawley then grabbed his handmade remote controller for the speeder and his blaster rifle and jumped to the ground . Activating the remote control , he accelerated the speeder away from the probe droid , and the droid started firing at it . Maneuvering the speeder with the controller , Grawley set it on a collision course with the droid . When the speeder rammed the droid , both machines exploded . He took the droid ' s ID plate — which read PD 4786 — as proof , and set off to Fort Nowhere to warn the settlers of the fact that the Empire had found them . After an exhausting fifty - kilometer journey on foot , Grawley reached the gates of Fort Nowhere at sunset the next day . At the city gates , he was greeted by a sentry named Horley , from whom Grawley learned that the city ' s mayor , Byron Devo III , was in the Smuggler ' s Rest . As he entered the Rest , Grawley was met with a round of mocking among the regulars , who remembered the night six months before . Silencing the crowd by destroying the cantina ' s sound system with his rifle , Grawley showed the patrons the droid ' s ID plate and told them about his encounter with the droid . He advised them to evacuate Fort Nowhere immediately , but most of the colonists did not really believe his words , due to Grawley ' s reputation as a drunk . He then asked Marie Peeno , Captain Jerg ' s second - in - command , about the sudden deactivation of the weather satellites . Peeno told everyone that the satellites had all went down at the same time and had not come online since . She also said that there were no starships in orbit that they could contact , as Jerg had left the planet and taken all the smuggler ships with him and was not expected to return in a month . Still , Mayor Devo was certain that the Empire had not found them yet , and even if it had , he was certain that any attack against Fort Nowhere would be futile , due to the Fort having been turned into a fortress by Jerg ' s smugglers . Realizing that he could not convince the settlers to leave the Fort , Grawley angrily exited the cantina and returned home to Carole , who was already worried for him being late . From mocked drunk to trusted leader . Grawley had been right in his suspicions , as the destroyed droid had been dispatched by the Dark Jedi Jerec . Jerec sought to harness the power of Ruusan ' s fabled Valley of the Jedi , which contained the trapped souls of the Jedi and Sith who had perished in the final battle of the New Sith Wars a thousand years prior . When Jerec ' s forces attacked Fort Nowhere , many colonists were killed , while survivors were forced to flee into the badlands and turn to Grawley for help . Grawley led the survivors to the previously unexplored territories , where they found the ruins of a temple — which had been used by the Jedi as a stronghold during the war — and settled there . Shortly thereafter , Grawley and his men witnessed a ship approaching the ruins of Fort Nowhere . In an attempt to identify the affiliation of the ship ' s pilots , the colonists used Morgan Katarn ' s old code , encoding the coordinates for a landing site with it . The ship landed at the prescribed location , which indicated that its pilots were not Imperial . Grawley dispatched Fido to have a look at the newcomers with its holocams , while he and Carole laid in hiding . By using Fido , Grawley inspected the ship and its crew , which consisted of a man and a woman , the former of whom he recognized as Kyle , the son of Morgan Katarn . Grawley flew Fido to his and Carole ' s position and back to Katarn several times , giving Katarn a signal to follow the machine . The two flew their starship to the temple , following Fido ' s lead . There , Grawley greeted Katarn , but being unsure of where his loyalties lay , ordered him and his companion to surrender their weapons . Katarn then introduced his companion , Jan Ors , and went on to explain that his father had been killed by Jerec years earlier . The younger Katarn had defected from the Empire when he had become aware of his father ' s death . He subsequently became a Rebel agent , and , along with Ors , was trying to foil Jerec ' s plans for galactic domination . Moreover , Katarn claimed that he had recently discovered that he was a Jedi . One of the colonists , Luther Pardy , who was in possession of Katarn ' s confiscated weapons , initially doubted his story , which prompted Katarn to Force - pull his lightsaber from Pardy ' s hands . The colonists drew their blasters , but Grawley , convinced that the Rebels were on their side , ordered them to stand down . Offering his help to the pair , Grawley proposed to meet with the Bouncers , seek their counsel , and ask for their help in finding the Valley . Grawley , Katarn , Ors , and six colonists took refuge in a temple of stone near the site where the Bouncers were most likely to appear . As they were waiting for the Bouncers to come , Grawley told Katarn about his father ' s meeting with the globe - like beings . When the Bouncers finally appeared and the group was ready to move out and meet them , Katarn spotted an Imperial skimmer and two speeder bikes moving toward the Bouncers . The newcomers were Jerec ' s troops , who intended to slaughter the Bouncers for fun , and opened fire on the gathered group . Unwilling to let the Bouncers be killed , Ors took out one speeder bike with a carefully - placed shot from a blaster rifle , causing the rest of the Imperials to fire back at Grawley and the others . Although one of the colonists was killed in the firefight , the fight was soon won by the Rebels and Grawley ' s men , who , with help from the Bouncers — who also lost one of their own — killed all the Imperials , and obtained the skimmer and one of the bikes relatively intact . In order to keep their presence secret , Grawley ' s men buried the Imperials in carefully camouflaged graves . Using a combat knife to carve words in the sand , Katarn then communicated with the leader of the Bouncers . One of the Bouncers , whom Grawley referred to as Floater , agreed to serve as a guide to the Valley of the Jedi for Katarn and help them reach it without running into Imperial troops . When the Rebel agent asked the Bouncer leader if he knew if they would succeed in stopping Jerec , the Bouncer replied by writing down a line from the Poem of Ages , the same poem they had told to Kyle ' s father , and which stated that a knight would come who would fight a battle and would free the spirits of Jedi and Sith trapped in the Valley . Katarn wanted to look for other scrap from the battle that could potentially point to their involvement in the patrol ' s disappearance , but Grawley believed that they had to leave before dawn . Although Ors wanted to depart for the Valley immediately , Katarn felt that the time was not right and decided to regroup at the temple . Grawley and his men , alongside the two Rebels and Floater , then returned to the colonists ' base . Shortly afterward , Fido spotted an Imperial force consisting of an AT - ST and an AT - AT nearby . In an effort to spy on the Imperials and — in case they headed toward the temple — to lead them away , Grawley , Katarn and Ors took the recently captured skimmer and set off to a hiding place near the base , where they monitored the Imperial forces . Katarn suddenly felt in the Force that the patrol was being led by one of Jerec ' s Dark Jedi and that the Dark Jedi had felt the Rebels too . However , much to Katarn ' s surprise , no attack followed ; in fact , the Imperial group was commanded by Yun , a Dark Jedi whom Katarn had previously had the chance to kill but decided to spare . Although Yun ' s troops had found a helmet belonging to stormtrooper RW957 from the fallen Imperial patrol , Yun decided to repay the debt to Katarn and stalled his forces . Death . Realizing that Jerec ' s troops were still unaware of the presence of Grawley ' s men on Ruusan , Katarn decided to proceed with his planned infiltration of the Valley of the Jedi , where Jerec ' s men had already begun excavation works . At nightfall , Grawley , Katarn , Ors , Katarn ' s droid WeeGee , and Floater all boarded Katarn ' s ship , the " Moldy Crow " , and flew to the Valley , landing five kilometers from the Valley in order to avoid detection . WeeGee was left hidden with the ship under a camouflage net , while Grawley and the two Rebels set off for the Valley through the mountains , led by Floater . At dawn , they were half a kilometer from the Valley , ascending the nearly vertical slope of a brittle ravine . When Grawley pulled himself up onto a broad shelf , however , he witnessed a probe droid , AD - 43 , that was alerted to the Rebels ' presence . There was no time to pull out his blaster ; therefore , Grawley acted on the first notion that came to his mind and charged at the droid with open arms . The droid slammed into him , and they both floated over the abyss . As the droid seized one of his legs and crushed it with powerful pincers , Grawley pulled out his knife and proceeded to strike the droid repeatedly , attempting to avenge everything that the Empire had done to him and his family . Katarn and Ors could only watch helplessly at the fight between the man and the machine , not risking to fire their weapons due to the high risk of accidentally hitting Grawley . Grawley ' s frenzied attack damaged the droid ' s critical systems , and it plunged into the canyon wall , taking Grawley with it and killing both in an explosion . Before it was destroyed , however , AD - 43 managed to report spotting Grawley and his companions , allowing Jerec to set a trap for Katarn . Grawley ' s death angered Katarn , making him even more determined to kill Jerec . Katarn and Ors succeeded in thwarting Jerec ' s plans , killing him and his entire cadre of Dark Jedi and fulfilling the Bouncers ' prophecy . Personality and traits . Grawley was a light - skinned man with brown eyes . By 5 ABY , Grawley was no longer a young man , and his originally brown hair had begun graying , yet he was in better physical shape than most men half his age . Despite that , he found himself tired during the fifty - kilometer long return trip to Fort Nowhere . However , he was more used to scrambling rocky terrain . When he , Kyle Katarn , and Jan Ors were climbing a mountain to spy on the Imperial patrol and , later , to reach the Valley of the Jedi , Katarn was out of breath , while Grawley seemed almost entirely unaffected . Grawley was a skilled mechanic , having built Fido by hand from whatever parts he could buy , borrow , or steal , and having assembled his speeder from salvage . He also constructed the remote control for the vehicle . He was very attached to his machines and had a penchant for giving names to them , even naming the water pump at his home " Jenny . " During his encounter with the first probe droid , Grawley talked to his speeder , willing the rusty vehicle to work , and was later sorry when he was forced to sacrifice the speeder in order to destroy the probe droid . Grawley also possessed a hunting knife half a meter long , whose blade had been fashioned from diamond - hard hull metal . Grawley deeply loved his wife Carole , and considered her gorgeous even after she was severely burned while trying to rescue their daughter Katie . He was deeply affected by the loss of his daughter . Haunted by the feeling of helplessness that he had felt during her death , Grawley attempted to find relief in alcohol . However , his indulgence only led to embarrassment . Grawley earned a reputation as a drunkard at Fort Nowhere , and the cantina regulars at the Smuggler ' s Rest laughed at his expense , which angered him . When fighting the probe droid AD - 43 , Grawley attempted to exact his revenge on the Empire by destroying the machine . He considered Morgan Katarn an interesting man and was disappointed to find that Katarn had been killed . Although some of the settlers feared and loathed the Bouncers , Grawley was fascinated by them , learning about their habits and trying to have a look at them at every opportunity . When he started telling Kyle Katarn about the Bouncers in great detail , such interest surprised Katarn and made Grawley feel self - conscious . During the battle with the Imperial patrol , Grawley was shocked when he saw Katarn killing the Imperials with his lightsaber . Grawley could not get used to the heat and dust of Ruusan and found it difficult to work as a farmer there , as water was hard to come by . He seriously considered undertaking cave - farming , a practice performed by other settlers in which plants were grown by artificial light . However , he realized the disadvantages of that method , and he did not like the prospect of being confined to a cave . On the other hand , the time spent on Ruusan taught Grawley to improvise and make do with what he had . During his encounter with the probe droid in the desert , Grawley displayed quick thinking , using the speeder ' s ability to fly at low levels and the local terrain to his advantage . He also became skilled in navigating Ruusan ' s terrain and was able to find his way back to Fort Nowhere without any navigational equipment . Overall , Grawley and his wife tried to take their hard life on Ruusan lightly , jokingly calling a flat piece of hard - packed dirt near their home " the veranda . " Grawley himself displayed a somewhat sarcastic sense of humor , referring to Devo III as the " fat guy who thought he was a mayor , " which made Horley chuckle . Although the smugglers who built Fort Nowhere claimed that there were ruins on the three moons of Ruusan , Grawley was not interested in such assertions . After Fort Nowhere was destroyed by Jerec ' s troops , and the " townies " — as Grawley called the town folk — turned to him for help , Grawley agreed to assist them despite the fact that they had not listened to his earlier warnings about the probe droid . He eventually became the leader of the survivors , and Carole was amazed that her normally tactless husband never reminded the town people of their mistaken judgment . In turn , the survivors followed Grawley ' s orders without question . As the leader of the survivors , Grawley was cautious , ordering Katarn to surrender his weapons until they could find out more about him , and later made use of shadows to maintain a low profile while he , Katarn , and Ors drove the stolen skimmer in order to spy on Yun ' s troops . However , he believed that the odds of Imperials finding any remnant of the missing patrol was very small and did not spend time to look for any remaining leads , but he was proven wrong when Yun ' s men found RW957 ' s helmet . Behind the scenes . Grif Grawley and his family were first indirectly mentioned in " " , a 1998 novella written by William C . Dietz , which included a reference to the three families massacred on Sulon . Dietz ' s follow - up novel , " " , revealed that the Grawleys were one of those families and featured Grawley prominently . In the book , he was illustrated by Dave Dorman . Grawley was also featured in the , wherein he was voiced by Jay Hornbacher . Inconsistencies . " Dark Forces : Rebel Agent " implies that Morgan Katarn has evacuated the Sulonese after three families , including the Grawleys , have been massacred . However , the implies that most of the colonists have listened to Katarn ' s warnings and have evacuated , while three families have stayed behind and been massacred . As such , the Grawleys are not among the three massacred families mentioned in the " Rebel Agent " audio drama . As a result of this alternative portrayal of events , the " Jedi Knight " audio drama makes no mention of Katie ' s death and Carole ' s scarring . In the " Jedi Knight " audio drama , Grawley learns of the satellites malfunctioning while communicating with Carole . He then hears the impact of the probe droid landing . Still keeping contact with Carole , he tells her to warn the other settlers of the droid , while he goes to check it . The encounter with the droid that follows is also abridged in the audio drama , wherein Grawley simply turns the speeder around and uses it as a battering ram , jumping right before the impact . In " Jedi Knight " , when Grawley reaches the gates of Fort Nowhere , he is informed by Horley that Carole is worried for him , and Grawley says that he will call her . However , in the audio drama , Grawley asks Horley to call Carole . In the audio drama , Grawley , Katarn and Ors do not go to spy on Yun ' s patrol . Instead , Yun senses them from afar while they are still at the temple . There is also a difference between the two publications regarding the portrayal of Grawley ' s death scene . In the audio drama , Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors stop to catch their breath while climbing the mountains , but Floater insists on going further , and Grawley follows him , which is when he runs into AD - 43 . In " The Official Star Wars Fact File 124 " , the image of Grawley fighting the droid AD - 43 is mistakenly captioned as depicting Morgan Katarn ' s capture by a probe droid on Sulon .