General Grievous, the quadra-armed Jedi hunter that supposedly met his end in Revenge of the Sith by a precisely aimed shot by Obi-Wan Kenobi, could see a glorious and shocking return in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series set to debut on Disney+ on May 25, 2022. As reflected in Sony Entertainment's once-popular massively multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies, which is now considered Star Wars Legends, the droid general could find new life under a different and equally terrifying alias: N-K Necrosis.
The rebirth of Grievous began as a commissioned project by the Galactic Empire headed by cybernetic scientists Nycolai Kinesworthy and Treu Lorn, under the codename N-K. With the help of a Dathomirian Nightsister and trusted ally to Emperor Palpatine himself, Merili, the scientists and dark-side user were able to successfully recover the remnants of Grievous on his death planet of Utapau, in a similar fashion to the way Anakin's body was recovered on Mustafar.
The corpse of Grievous was then brought to an underground cybernetic laboratory in the Myyydril caverns on the planet Kashyyyk, where Merili happened to have complete control over the native Wookiees under brutal rule. And Grievous wasn’t alone -- the scientists additionally had hired IG-72, an assassin droid, to obtain IG-100 MagnaGuards, which previously served the late droid general, to serve as defenders for his reconstruction. This, combined with the fact that Kashyyyk was Empire-controlled, rendered the project top secret and well guarded.
Upon completion of his reconstruction, Grievous was transplanted with a new droid brain, and officially reborn as “N-K Necrosis.” With this, the MagnaGuards (now dubbed as NK-3s), would train their former commander to wield and fight with a double-bladed, red lightsaber. However, things went awry when one of the cybernetic scientists, Treu Lorn, stole the completed N-K Necrosis and NK-3 bodyguards from Nycolai Kinesworthy to perform his own experiments. Kinesworthy, desiring revenge, would task a group of mercenaries (the players in the game) to eliminate the droid. Eventually, the mercenaries would prove successful in the story, accomplishing Kinesworthy's goal.
While Star Wars Galaxies has been relegated to Star Wars Legends, it's entirely possible that the Obi-Wan Kenobi storyline could draw inspiration from content that is no longer canon. After all, Star Wars writers have already done so with Boba Fett in his series, The Book of Boba Fett, in a callback to how the bounty hunter lost his armor. And while Grievous's odds of survival after being disintegrated seemed pretty slim, Star Wars has been no stranger when it comes to bringing back characters that were previously thought to be deceased; particularly, as they relate to Obi-Wan. Darth Maul has already survived being cut in half and subsequently thrown down a chasm. Anakin survived after being dismembered and then incinerated by nearby lava. And somehow, Palpatine returned in The Rise of Skywalker.
With all of this, the possibility of Grievous's return becomes not so far-fetched. After all, he is a droid -- making his reconstruction all the more viable. Could General Grievous be next to join the trend of Obi-Wan's resurrected rivals? If Anakin and Maul can do it, so can Grievous.
Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres May 25 on Disney+.
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