if you would join us hey everyone hope you're having a great
day so far now have you ever wondered where General Grievous was during the
Battle of Geonosis in episode 2 the melee that sparked the Clone Wars and
changed pretty much everything now it turns out that the cybernetic general
was actually at the arena the whole time keeping himself busy in the shadows
today we're gonna continue through labyrinth of evil by James Lucy no it's
the book that covers the events that take place right before episode 3 begins
or at least it did in the old you at any rate whether Disney keeps his Canon or
not I think the passage at least in my own mind is canon because it was during
the time when George still owned Lucasfilm and it was still his story now
I thought this passage that I'm gonna go over still provide some key insight into
how Grievous views himself and the Jedi as well as reveals where his hatred for
the order comes from now at this point in the book nute gunray's fleeing
towards general Grievous's flagship the invisible hand while being pursued by
Republic forces as Grievous awaits aboard for the Trade Federation Viceroy
the cyborgs thoughts take him back to the first encounter that he had with the
meek Namur diem from their first acquaintance Gunray had made the mistake
of treating Grievous as just another droid even though he had been told that
this was not the case perhaps Gunray had thought of him as
some mindless entity like the reawakened urge or Dooku's misguided apprentice
Asajj Ventress or the humanoid bounty hunter called or a Singh all three of
whom had been so driven my personal hatred of the Jedi that they had proved
worthless mere distractions while Grievous went about the real business of
the war the attitude of the nemedians had changed quickly enough in part
because they had been witness to Grievous's capabilities but more as a
result of what had occurred on genesis had it not been for Grievous Gunray and
the rest might have suffered the same fate as poggle the lessers lieutenant
soon fact Grievous's actions in the catacombs that
day with the Janoskians retreating by thousands from the arena and companies
of Clone commandos following them in had allowed gunnery to escape the planet
alive sometimes he wondered just how many clones he had killed or wounded
that day and Jedi of course though none had lived to speak of him the Jedi
corpses that were retrieved bespoke something atrocious that resided
those dark underground passages perhaps the Jedi believe that a rancor or a reek
had shredded the bodies of their forceful comrades or perhaps they
thought the damage had been done by Genoa and sonic weapons set to maximum
power either way they must have wondered what
became of the victims lightsabers Grievous regretted that he hadn't been
able to see the reactions but he too had been forced to flee as Genesis fell the
revelation of his existence had to wait until a handful of hapless Jedi had
arrived on The Foundry world of hitori by then Grievous had already amassed a
sizable collection of lightsabers but at hitori he had been able to add
several more - of which he wore inside his command cloak even now as trophies
there were superior to the pelts of hunted beings he knew some bounty
hunters to affect he admired the precision and care that had gone into
construction of the lightsabers more each seemed to retain a faint memory of
its wielder as a former sword master he could appreciate that each had been
handcrafted rather than turned out in quantity like blasters or pike weapons
he could respect the Jedi for that though he had nothing but hatred for
them as an order because of the remoteness of their homeworld his
species the kulish had had few dealings with the Jedi but then war had broken
out between the Kulish and their planetary neighbors a savage insectile
species known as the Huq Grievous had become infamous during the long conflict
conquering worlds defeating grand armies exterminating entire colonies of the Huq
but instead of surrendering as would have been the honorable course the Huq
had appealed to the public to intercede and the Jedi had arrived on Colley in
what passed for negotiations fifty Jedi Knights and masters ready to lose their
lightsabers on Grievous and his army the kulish were made to appear the
aggressors the reason was plain where Kali had little to offer in the way of
the trade the Huq worlds were rich in ore and other resources lusted after by
the Trade Federation and others chastised by the Republic the Kulish
foundered sanctions and reparations were imposed traders avoided the planet
Grievous's people starved and perished by the hundreds of thousands ultimately
the intergalactic banking clan had come to their rescue helping with funds
reinstating trade providing Grievous with a new direction so here we have it
Grievous's reasons for hating the Republic and the Jedi the death of
hundreds of thousands of his people through starvation and poverty or at
least that's what he believes are the reasons now I say that because his
memories aren't really reliable for reasons that have gone over in a past
video that covers how Grievous became a cyborg in the first place now I can't
say for certain that these events didn't happen either the Republic though it
could have been saved had become corrupt so it is possible they put devastating
sanctions on the kaleesh that would push them right into the waiting hands of the
Trade Federation probably through the Sith smash nations so what about Genesis
now I'd love to have seen Grievous they're taking on Jedi and clones
I think things would have turned out very differently what if he hadn't
remained hidden in the catacombs but came to Dooku's aid in his fight against
Yoda and what if he was there with Anakin no be one when they confronted
Dooku would Anakin have had more restraint against charging in like he
did now Dooku almost killed the two by
himself if Grievous was there would it have been the end of our dynamic duo as
I will explain in another video Dooku let Anakin live and the reasons
are very interesting and it's not the one where Yoda and obi-wan figure out
why he let them live it's actually revealed from Dooku's mouth which you'll
see in a video very soon so let me know your thoughts on what other what-ifs you
can think of maybe if Grievous revealed himself at Genesis so this could
actually happen because well it did he was just in the shadows until next time
remember the force will be with you always
you