General Grievous

General Grievous was originally a Kaleesh warlord named Qymaen jai Sheelal. Grievous was born during the Huk War where the insectoid Huks were trying to conquer the reptilian Kaleesh for slave labor. Grievous' father decided to focus his son's rage by teaching him to use a slug throwing rifle. At the tender age of 8 years old, Grievous had already amassed forty kills under his belt and by twenty-two he had so many kills he was considered a demigod by his people.

Once he had matured, Grievous had a prophetic dream where he hunted and killed a dangerous beast using a sword. This dream had such an effect that Grievous went into the forest to enact the dream. Once he found the creature, he encountered a Kaleesh woman who had already slain the beast. This woman, Ronderu lij Kummar, would become Grievous' partner and his treasured love.

The pair became known as living incarnations of a Kaleesh story. The two would go on to form a strong bond and teach each other their fighting techniques. This was the first time Grievous learned to use a sword. Their battles and accumulated kills during the Huk war would have both recognized has demigods and saviors of their people.

During one encounter, Ronderu and Grievous were separated and she fell to the Huk's barbed spears. She would meet her end in a watery grave. Grievous was sent into a long spiraling depression. He pleaded with his gods to just see her one more time, though his prayers were never answered. Grievous would take his anger out on the invaders. He went on to expel every Huk from his planet as well as taking several wives and having thirty children though nothing would snap him out of his depression. This his when Grievous left behind his birth name Qymaen jai Sheelal and became General Grievous.

Once Grievous started to eliminate the Huk worlds in revenge for his partners death, the Huk turned to the Galactic Republic for aid. When the Republic were convinced to side with the Huk, the Kaleesh would face economic hardship from embargo's, Republic sanctions, and hefty fines. Hundreds of thousands of Kaleesh died during this time of poverty. San Hill of the Intergalactic Banking Clan proposed to alleviate some of the Kaleesh's debts and, in exchange, Grievous would work for him as an enforcer. At first, Grievous was reluctant. Despite this, he longed for the thrill of battle and wanted to help his people. Prohibited from bringing his Kaleesh elite, Grievous was given command of the Banking Clan's Battle Droids instead.

Grievous was appalled with their performance and demanded intelligent and more capable droids. Count Dooku commissioned the IG-100 Battle Droids and had each of them programmed with the skills of a 100 swordsmen. Grievous, again, was in great dismay at their skills and had them programmed according to his own movements and techniques. The Banking Clan kept their promise and took over the debt of the Kaleesh with Grievous becoming an efficient enforcer.

Through his actions, The Banking Clan seized overdue payments on Ord Mantell and received Phult Designing Systems as a subsidiary. Soon Grievous heard of the Huk desecrating a Kaleesh ceremonial ground and the Republic's inaction against this atrocity. Grievous returned to his Kaleesh warriors and abandoned his contract with the Banking Clan to take up arms against the Huk. San Hill conspired with Poggle the Lesser of Geonosis, Count Dooku, and Darth Sidious to force Grievous into permanent servitude. Grievous and his elites boarded a ship named Martyr and headed for the Huk homeworld.

Unknown to the group, the Separatists had placed an ion bomb on board. The bomb went off destroying the ship and killing the Kaleesh elites though Grievous' pod was rigged to allow him to escape. The hit into the water did a great deal of damage to Grievous' body and Dooku had to use the force to keep him from going into cardiac arrest. Dooku then used the Force to blame the Republic for the bombing and put this thought into Grievous' mind.

His body was destroyed and the Seperatists told him he would never recover properly. San Hill and Dooku offered to rebuild the Kaleesh if he would renew his contract with the Separatist army. Desiring vengeance Grievous agreed on the condition that his mind would not be tampered with.

The Banking Clan and Geonosian scientists composed a duranium body in the same design as the Krath War Droid complete with LX-44 robotic legs and Dooku used the blood of a frozen Jedi, Master Sifo-Dyas to fuel the process. Unknown to Grievous, the scientists did tamper with his mind by removing certain harmful memories and increasing his rage factors. They altered his eyes to have extended vision and work in the vacuum of space and also increased his equilibrium to allow him to use his new body. After the procedure, Grievous wanted to see if he had become force sensitive thanks to Sifo-Dyas' blood though this wasn't the case. San Hill presented Grievous to Dooku who was taken aback by the final result. Dooku proclaimed him the General of the Droid Armies and presented him with his first lightsaber, the blade of Sifo-Dyas.

Following his cybernetic transformation, Grievous was renowned as the greatest Jedi killer the galaxy had ever seen. Grievous was gifted with strength over 10x that of even peak human capabilities, blinding speed that even Jedi could not match and durability which allowed him to withstand bursts from a starfighter's laser cannon or glancing lightsaber blows. It also offered him enhanced vision, senses, balance, mobility, nigh infinite stamina, endurance and reaction time.

After his training from Dooku, Grievous had working knowledge of every form of lightsaber combat as well as his personal unorthodox style that took advantage of his maneuverability and strength, effectively hybridising all of the lightsaber techniques he'd learned. Grievous had enough dexterity to drop lightsabers and catch them with his feet or other arms for surprise attacks from nearly any angle due to his mechanical movement capabilities. Grievous had four arms that were initially kept as two to hide that advantage.

Grievous could separate his arms and use four lightsabers for an increase in offensive output, speed and unpredictability, forcing even the greatest Jedi on the defensive and usually overwhelming his opponents' defenses within seconds. Grievous was also a notable pilot who even gave Anakin a run for his money.

The Clone Wars, also known as the Clone War and the Great Clone War, was the name given to the major galactic conflict fought between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The war was named after the clone troopers utilized by the Republic against the battle droid forces of the Separatists. These armies, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army, were two of the largest ever pitted against each other in galactic history, and the fighting between them rapidly spread to countless inhabited worlds.