Grievous

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**Grievous** was originally an warrior from his homeplanet Kalee that decided to receive cybernetic-implants so to increase his combat prowess. Grievous was brought into the Confederacy of Independent Systems by Count Dooku to lead confederate droid army, and trained in lightsaber combat. Over the course of the Clone Wars General Grievous' tactical planning and his ruthlessness had caused General-Grievous to become feared through republic military ranks. This General-Grievous's body itself was a living weapon allowing him to defeat multiple Jedi Knights, even going so far as to collect the Lightsabers which he'd taken from the Jedi he killed. The general proved to be a brilliant strategist and feared Jedi-hunter, known for an cough and skills as an strategist while leading his droids at wreaking chaos throughout this Galaxy against both Republic and Jedi.

## Biography

### Life as a Warrior

**Grievous** was known as a fearsome warlord who had killed a countless number of people throughout the galaxy. Originally a warrior from his home of Kalee, the man who would come to be know as General Grievous quickly became a feared force on the battlefield. As a military commander, Grievous lead his people to victory over those who had invaded their home. His tactical skills attracted attention from the Sith-Lords Sidious and Tyranus, who, with the help of the Intergalactic Banking Clan, arranged for Grievous' shuttle to be shot down so that the Sith could use him as a subject for his plans. The result was a cyborg body that held his vital organs, with versatile mechanized extremities.

### General of the Droid Army

#### Commander of the *Malevolence*

Grievous claimed to have chosen to be rebuilt and have portions of his body replaced with cybernetics. After he had been chosen and trained in Lightsaber combat by Count Dooku to lead the Separatist forces in the Clone Wars, Grievous then took the *Malevolence* as his flagship. Under the General's command, the ship began executing attacks on Republic fleets that left no survivors. While stationed in the Abregado System with Count Dooku aboard, a Republic task force led by Jedi Master Plo Koon arrived in the system to engage the warship. The ion cannons of the *Malevolence* disabled the Republic fleet's deflector shields, and this led to the destruction of the fleet. A few individuals managed to survive via escape pods, but Dooku dispatched a pod hunter to destroy the pods. Plo Koon, Commander Wolffe, and two clones were rescued by Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano on the *Twilight*. As a result of the escape of some survivors, Dooku's trust in Grievous was shaken, and the Sith Lord left to discuss plans with his master, Darth Sidious. Grievous, as instructed by Count Dooku via hologram, took the *Malevolence* to destroy a Republic medical facility.

In order to reach the target, the *Malevolence* had to navigate around the Kaliida Nebula. Anakin Skywalker led a small strike force of fighters which disabled the ion cannons of the *Malevolence*. After this, a Republic fleet led by Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived and attacked Grievous' crippled ship. Grievous was forced to retreat, but Dooku came up with a new plan: taking Senator Padmé Amidala hostage. After Senator Amidala's ship was captured, the Republic fleet stopped firing, and a team was sent to board the *Malevolence* led by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Grievous fought Obi-Wan Kenobi briefly and overpowered him, but the two Jedi managed to escape with Padmé and C-3PO. Grievous pursued the *Twilight* in his personal starfighter, the *Soulless One* but Anakin had sabotaged the navigation system of the *Malevolence* such that when the ship engaged its hyperdrive, it crashed directly into a nearby moon. After the destruction of the *Malevolence*, the Republic made efforts to locate him. Clone Intelligence spotted him in the Balmorra system, but he vanished shortly after.

#### Proving his Worth to the Sith

Later in the war, Grievous was instructed by his master to return to his fortress on the third moon of Vassek. When he arrived, he found that his MagnaGuards had been deactivated. Count Dooku, having laid a trap for the General in order to test his abilities, lured the Jedi and clones to Grievous's fortress. With the Jedi having infiltrated the base and with his bodyguards deactivated, the Count had hoped to punish Grievous for his recent failures. In the fight that ensued, Grievous was damaged and his pet roggwart Gor, was killed. However, he was soon repaired by his droid A-4D and continued on his hunt for the Jedi. Eventually catching up to them, Grievous easily dispatched Nahdar Vebb and his remaining clone forces, and then went on to fight against Jedi Master Kit Fisto. After a lengthy duel in which Grievous's Magnaguards arrived to assist him, Fisto fled aboard his ship and escaped the planet. Shortly thereafter, Grievous contacted Dooku and told him that he had defeated the Jedi, but that Fisto had escaped. Dooku congratulated Grievous on his victory but stated that he could have done better and that there was still room for improvement.

#### Conflict Above Coruscant

Under the orders of Count Dooku and Darth Sidious, Grievous captured Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and took him aboard his flagship the *Invisible Hand*. Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi boarded the *Invisible Hand* to rescue the Chancellor. They defeated Count Dooku and were escaping with the Chancellor when General Grievous captured them, meeting with Skywalker for the first time. The Jedi broke free of their bonds, and after cornering Grievous, he shattered the front window of the cruiser with an electrostaff. Kenobi, Skywalker, and the Chancellor managed to stay in the ship, but Grievous was sucked into space. Protected from exposure to vacuum, the general survived and used a grappling hook installed in his arm to latch onto the hull of the ship. After ejecting the rest, Grievous fled in one of his flagship's escape pods, and later headed for the secured planet of Utapau in the Outer Rim Territories, where the Separatist Council was hiding. With Count Dooku's death, Grievous succeeded him as Head of State of the Separatist Alliance.

#### Grievous's Final Battle

Under the direct order of Dooku's master, Darth Sidious, Grievous relocated the Council to the planet Mustafar. After the Republic received word that Grievous was hiding on Utapau, General Kenobi was sent to defeat him. Though Nute Gunray and the other Council members doubted Grievous' ability to lead, they followed his orders, leaving just moments before Kenobi's arrival. After Kenobi handily defeated Grievous' bodyguards, the droid army got ready to open fire. However, Grievous ordered them to back away as he decided to engage Kenobi himself. He immediately split his arms in four and attacked the Jedi master in one last duel. Grievous lost two of his hands to Kenobi's superior dueling skill before Clone Commander Cody and the 212th Attack Battalion arrived, ambushing the droid army. Fighting broke out all over Pau City between droid and clone forces. Grievous continued to threaten Kenobi, but Kenobi ended the initial duel with a tremendous Force push that disarmed the General.

Grievous fled on his wheel bike. Pursued by Obi-Wan on a varactyl named Boga, after a prolonged chase and running duel, the two soon crashed onto Grievous' private landing platform, where the Soulless One was docked. As they fought hand-to-hand, Grievous made use of his mechanical body's superior strength. However, Kenobi managed to rip open Grievous' previously damaged chest plates, revealing Grievous' synthskin gut-sack containing his remaining organs. Angered, Grievous tossed Kenobi off the platform, but the Jedi manipulated his position via Force and caught hold of the edge. Grievous charged Kenobi with an electrostaff, preparing to finish off his old adversary. However, Kenobi used the Force to summon Grievous' blaster, shooting Grievous in his previously exposed gut-sack. The oils preserving Grievous' remaining biological components ignited, incinerating the famed cyborg from the inside and finally destroying him.

## Abilities

**Lightsaber Training:** Despite his lack of Force-sensitivity, his training under Count Dooku turned Grievous into an extremely powerful and deadly fighter, being one of the most proficient Jedi hunters to exist. He was proficient, efficacious, and authoritative at wielding Lightsabers, using his own unique form, which utilizes extremely fast barrages of strikes and more powerful blows to overwhelm his enemies.He developed a personalized unorthodox fighting form, involving prolonged lightning-fast flurries and power moves designed to overwhelm his enemies. He was known as one of the greatest Jedi hunters and a collector of the Lightsabers of fallen Jedi, which he used in battle with his foes. Grievous hunted Jedi for sport, keeping four Lightsabers of his victims within his cloak as trophies of his superiority. Grievous killed dozens of Jedi, from Padawans to Masters, collecting their Lightsabers after the Jedi had been slain. Aside from the Jedi he personally defeated, his collection included some Lightsabers belonging to at least five beings he did not personally kill.

**Expert Tactician:** Grievous was a cold and calculating general, a brilliant strategist, and a powerful fighter.  As Grievous was highly intelligent., he utilized chaotic battle strategies that appeared random, but in fact were carefully calculated to encourage misconceptions. Grievous singled out civilian targets during battles, forcing his enemies to choose between winning the battle or saving lives, a tactic long practiced by the Sith. However, he was arrogant, and sometimes underestimated his enemies. Nonetheless, the cyborg was considered a military genius by many, though some argued that he lacked subtlety. He also had an advantage in that he could directly control his droid armies using the two antennae built into his head, giving him extra control in battle. Grievous is also perfectly willing to use more dishonest, manipulative, and underhanded tactics, for example, pulling a blaster to finish his enemies.

## Equipment

### Cybernetics

As a cyborg, Grievous was physically stronger then most other sentient beings. Each of his six-fingered arms could split lengthwise in two, thus giving Grievous the ability to use four limbs, each armed with a Lightsaber. Able to spin these arms in a whirling storm of deadly lacerating light that few could withstand, he could attack with as many as twenty strikes per second, enough to overwhelm most Jedi defenses. He was also able to spin his torso and his wrists in a 360 degree motion at fast speeds continuously, effectively becoming a Lightsaber buzz-saw. In addition to this, Grievous had repulsorlifts built into his legs, allowing his feet to double as hands. This would allow him to wield six Lightsabers all at once. His mechanical enhancements gave him an edge in close-quarter combat, enabling him to battle and hold his own against several Jedi simultaneously. He could also analyze most of his opponents' attacks and respond in kind due to the advanced combat algorithms in his brain. Grievous' mechanical body allowed him to survive in the vacuum of space.

### Vehicles

***Soulless One:*** The *Soulless One* was a modified Belbullab-22 starfighter, a fast and agile prong-shaped vessel produced by Feethan Ottraw Scalable Assemblies. Grievous considered his fighter to be a vision of the future of warfare, with a powerful arsenal consisting of two sets of triple rapid-fire laser cannons. Grievous modified his fighter with a top-of-the-line hyperdrive allowing the cyborg General to stay mobile on a galaxy-wide scale. In order to remain in touch with his forces while flying his fighter, a powerful but compact HoloNet transceiver was installed onboard. He also outfitted the *Soulless One* with a deflector shield, and had the entire hull coated in a thin layer of impervium, making the fighter impenetrable to all but the heaviest of enemy fire. The starfighter was originally designed for a biological pilot, and the one-pilot cockpit was equipped with a life-support system. This feature came in useful when Obi-Wan Kenobi, having destroyed Grievous on Utapau, appropriated the late General's starfighter, and used it to reach safe refuge aboard the *Tantive III*.