but the loss of Count pool it was a necessary loss soon I will have a new
apprentice one far younger ah good old Grievous now this video is one that's
definitely going to pique your interests if you're a grievous fan all of the
information from this one comes from the labyrinth of evil book which takes place
just before episode three it is now unfortunately in legends but it's still
a really cool book and it kind of gives you a glimpse well it definitely gives
you a glimpse of what the story was like before the new Star Wars now general
grievous is a lot like Robocop which was a sci-fi film with some very dark satire
it's about a cop who's killed in the line of duty
only to be brought back as a cool cyborg now if you're thinking of Universal
Soldier as sort of a same storyline not really but at least they were human just
resurrected whereas here Grievous is literally 90% machine if not more now
one thing you can draw on with Robocop and grievous and why making the
connection is because it portrays a human dealing with his new nightmare
reality as a machine it's very deep for what should have been a b-movie popcorn
flick from the 80s but it's really a lot more than that you can feel the same
resonance when we read these pages here which we're gonna go into we're gonna
learn a little bit about who Grievous was before becoming a machine as well as
what it was like for him to transform into the cybernetic monstrosity now
having rescued the Trade Federation viceroy nute Gunray from the jedi
general Grievous's flagship the invisible hand is in bound for the Outer
Rim world of Bell de Rome where the Confederacy hopes to establish a new
stronghold for the separatist council as he waits for his fleet to exit
hyperspace General Grievous remembers his life as flesh and blood and the
circumstances that led him to decide to become more machine than a living being
here we go in dreams Grievous remembered his life his mortal life on Kelly and in
the aftermath of the Huq war after all the close calls on battlefields on his
home system worlds on Huk world's sowing destruction exterminating as many of
them as he could after all the times he returned home wounded bloodied to the
bone surrounded by his wives and offspring basking in their support
relying on it to recall him to life after all the brushes with death to be
fatally injured in a Shuttle crash the unfairness the indignity had cost him
more pain than the injuries themselves to be denied a Warrior's death as was
his due floating suspended in bacta keenly aware that no healing fluid or
gamma blade wielded by living being or droid could repair his body in moments
of consciousness seeing his wives and offspring gazing on his ravaged body
from the far side of the perma glass offering words of encouragement prayers
for his return to health he had asked himself could he be content to be a mind
in a body without feeling more could he abandon a life of combat for life in
which the only battles he fought were with himself the struggle to endure to
live another day no it was beyond him by then the Huq war had ended more
accurately had been ended by the Jedi and the kulish were still reaping the
whirlwind their world in ruins their Appeals for justice and fair play
ignored by the Republic ever on the alert for investment opportunities
members of the intergalactic banking clan had offered Kelly a dubious sort of
rescue they would support the planet financially assume its staggering debt
if Grievous would agree to serve the clan as an enforcer their herald fire
weapons were proficient at delivering payment reminders to delinquent clients
and their IG series assassin droids took care of the wet work but the Hale fires
had to be programmed the IGS were dangerously unpredictable an
assassination was bad for business the clan wanted someone with a talent for
intimidation both to save his world and to provide himself with a touch of the
life he had known as a warrior a strategist a leader of armies grievous
had accepted the offer IBC chairman Sandhill himself had
overseen the details of the arrangement still rebus wasn't entirely proud of his
decision debt-collection was a far cry from Warcraft an arena for beings
without principles for being so attached to
their possessions that they fear death but Kelly had profited from his work for
IVC and Grievous's previous notoriety was such that it could not be eclipsed
then the shuttle crash the accident the misfortune he told his would-be healers
to fish him from the back the tank he could bear to die an atmosphere or the
vacuum of deep space but not in liquid in the shadow of felled trees that would
fuel his funeral pyre he lapsed in and out of consciousness
that was when Sandhill had paid him a second visit something consequential in
mind obvious even to someone who could barely see straight we can keep you
alive rail-thin Hill had whispered into Grievous's unimpaired ear others had
promised as much he pictured breathing devices a hover platform a surround of
life-sustaining machines but Hill had said none of that you will walk he will
speak you will retain your memories your mind I have my mind gravis had said what
I lack is a body most of your internal organs are damaged
beyond the repair of the finest surgeons Hillard continued and he will have to
surrender even more than you already have you will no longer know the
pressures of flesh flesh of the weak you need only gaze on me to see that
encouraged by the remark Hill had talked in glowing terms of the schnozz eNOS how
they had raised cyborg technology to an art form and how the blending of living
and machine technology was the future considered the battle of droids of the
Trade Federation Hill had said they answer to a brain that is also nothing
more than a Droid protocol droids astromechs even assassin droids all
require programming and frequent maintenance two words had caught
Grievous's attention battle droids a war is brewing that will calm any droids to
the front Hill had said just loudly enough to be heard I'm not privy to when
it will begin but when that day does the entire galaxy will be involved his
interest piqued Grievous said a war begun by whom the banking clan the Trade
Federation someone more powerful who in time you will meet them and you will be
impressed then why does he need me in every war there are leaders and there
are come a commander of droids more precisely a
living commander of droids so he allowed the genovian to go to work on him
constructing a geranium and ceramic shell for what little of him remained
his recuperation had been long and difficult coming to terms with his new
and in many ways improved self even longer and more difficult
only then had he been presented to Count Dooku and only then had his real
training begun from the Janoskians and members of the techno Union he had
already come to understand the inner workings of droids but from Dooku Lord
tyrannous he came to understand the inner workings of the Sith tyrannous
himself had trained him in lightsaber technique in mere weeks he had surpassed
any of Terrence's previous students it helped of course to have an
indestructible body reminiscent of a craft war droid the ability to tower
over most sentient beings crystal circuitry for grasping appendages in
dreams he remembered his past life but in fact he was not dreaming for dreams
were a product of sleep and General Grievous did not sleep he endured
instead brief periods of stasis in a pod like chamber that had been created for
him by his body's builders while inside that chamber he could sometimes recall
what it had felt like to live he was not to be disturbed unless in the event of
inimical circumstances and that's where I'm gonna wrap this video for today but
what must it be like to be just a brain encased in a metal body unable to feel
pain or touch to not even feel the wind on your body numb to the world but
powerful practically indestructible with supernatural speed and abilities but of
course lacking the force would you continue with the path set before you
like Grievous and eventually Bader or would you try to choose another path if
you could thanks so much for watching today's video and I'll see you in the
next one until then remember the force will be with you always
but the loss of Count total it was a necessary loss soon I will have a new
apprentice one far younger and more powerful this it isn't me what dove no
of course it's not you you stupid asthmatic machine you can't even use the
force but but but I killed all those dear to hide without the force imagine
if we already tried to use a Jedi's blood in you - grunts the force power
you need the dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider
to be unnatural what is that supposed to mean
what could you give me everything
thank you serious can I have a red one this time now
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