Martyr

The Martyr was a shuttle used by the Kaleesh warlord Grievous. The gray shuttle had multiple laser cannons and also functioned as a troop carrier, able to accommodate Grievous and all eight members of his elite Izvoshra. By 29 BBY, Grievous and the Izvoshra took flight in the Martyr on Grievous's homeworld Kalee, planning to re-ignite the Huk War between the Kaleesh and the Yam'rii species.

However, the shuttle was destroyed through sabotage planned by InterGalactic Banking Clan Chairman San Hill, Archduke Poggle the Lesser, and the Sith Lord Count Dooku, who wanted to manipulate Grievous into the service of the growing Confederacy of Independent Systems. The severely injured Grievous was pulled from the Martyr wreckage in the Jenuwaa Sea and reconstructed as a cyborg at Hill's arrangement. Historians were later divided over whether the crash was the actual cause of Grievous's transformation, as he insisted that he had chosen to be upgraded.

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