General Grievous

Key events in General Grievous's story

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Before the Clone Wars - Birth on Kalee

Qymaen jai Sheelal is born in the wilds of Kalee while the Kaleesh are fighting a war against the insectoid Yam'rii of Huk.

Before the Clone Wars - Child sniper

His father teaches him to shoot an Outland rifle. By the age of eight he is serving as a sniper and has already killed forty enemies.

Before the Clone Wars - Warlord "Grievous"

He rises quickly to become a feared warlord and takes the name Grievous. He gathers Kalee's elite Izvoshra warriors as his personal bodyguard.

Before the Clone Wars - Campaigns against Huk

Grievous drives the Yam'rii off Kalee and takes the war to the Huk worlds. His successes catch the attention of Dooku and Darth Sidious.

Before the Clone Wars - Republic intervention

The Republic and the Jedi take the Yam'rii side. The sanctions that follow starve hundreds of thousands of Kaleesh, and Grievous swears vengeance.

Before the Clone Wars - Enforcer for the Banking Clan

Grievous becomes an enforcer for the InterGalactic Banking Clan and commands its droid army. He is forbidden to keep the Izvoshra, so he has the IG-100 MagnaGuards built and trains them himself.

Before the Clone Wars - Cybernetic transformation

With the Sith's encouragement, Grievous begins replacing parts of his body with cybernetic upgrades.

Before the Clone Wars - Shuttle crash and rebuilding

Dooku secretly sabotages his shuttle and blames the Jedi for the crash. Separatist and Geonosian surgeons rebuild the dying warlord as an almost entirely mechanical four-armed cyborg and alter his mind without his knowledge.

Before the Clone Wars - Lightsaber training

Dooku trains Grievous in lightsaber combat and gives him his first captured Jedi lightsaber. Grievous passes his skills on to his MagnaGuards.

22 BBY - First Battle of Geonosis

Grievous fights in secret in the Geonosian catacombs. He kills the Jedi who stumble on him so that the Separatist Council can escape, and none survive to report his existence.

22 BBY - Supreme Martial Commander

He is made a general and Supreme Martial Commander of the Separatist Droid Armies, second only to Dooku. Early in the war he scars Ki-Adi-Mundi.

~22 BBY - The Malevolence campaign

His flagship, the Malevolence, wipes out Republic fleets with its ion cannon until Anakin Skywalker's forces destroy it.

~22 BBY - Vassek 3

At his fortress on Vassek 3, Grievous fights Kit Fisto and kills Fisto's former Padawan, Nahdar Vebb.

~22 BBY - Hunting Jedi

Grievous captures Jedi Master Eeth Koth to lure Kenobi into a trap. The Republic rescues Koth, and Grievous escapes.

~21 BBY - Captured by pirates

Hondo Ohnaka's pirates briefly hold Grievous prisoner. Kenobi and Anakin nearly capture him before he gets away.

~20 BBY - Assault on Dathomir

On Dooku's orders, Grievous leads a droid army that massacres the Nightsisters of Dathomir.

~20 BBY - Return to Kalee

On his homeworld, Grievous clashes with Anakin Skywalker during a mission to recover the kidnapped Jedi A'Sharad Hett.

19 BBY - Clash with Maul and Mother Talzin

Grievous leads Separatist forces against Maul's Shadow Collective. Dooku and Grievous kill Mother Talzin.

19 BBY - Battle of Coruscant

Grievous leads the raid on the Republic capital and captures Chancellor Palpatine. Kenobi and Skywalker rescue him from the Invisible Hand, Dooku is killed, and Grievous escapes in a pod.

19 BBY - Leader of the Confederacy

As acting head of the Separatists, Grievous retreats to Utapau. On Sidious's orders he sends the Separatist Council to Mustafar.

19 BBY - Death on Utapau

Kenobi confronts him, cuts off two of his arms and chases him across the sinkhole city. He kills Grievous by firing a blaster into his organic gut-sack, and the Clone Wars end soon after.