Grievous's great-grandmother

A female was the great-grandmother of the Kaleesh Qymaen jai Sheelal. The female fought alongside the Kolkpravis, the united army of the Kaleesh of the planet Kalee in the Bitthævrian War in approximately 65 BBY. The war was instigated when corrupt Galactic Republic officials secretly trained the Kaleesh and armed them with Outland rifles made by Czerka Arms to fight the Bitthævrian species in the Kadok Regions, on which Kalee bordered.

The female fought against the advance by the Bitthævrians, and their great-grandson also participated in the storming of Guiteica, the Bitthævrian homeworld. Sheelal, who later changed his name to Grievous after becoming a warlord, inherited his great-grandmother's Outland rifle and was tought to use it by his father prior to turning eight years old. The rifle was either lost or destroyed when Grievous's shuttle, the Martyr, crashed by 29 BBY on Kalee.

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