KingInBlack posted...
Grievous was purposely made to show that not everything can be replaced, and their technology is flawed. Unless they've changed canon again, he was mangled in a ship crash and "re-built" as he is in the movies/TV show. They couldn't replace certain parts, like the lungs and head/brain, and they were really bad at keeping the lungs safe and healthy.
grievous was made because dooku was a fuckin freak and wanted something to lead a droid army, so he orchestrated a crash that caused the kaleesh male sheelal to essentially need to become a robot in order to survive, before this he was essentially programmed to just really, really, really fucking hate the jedi. originally it was because he saw them as so powerful but doing nothing with their skill. then after the dude went on a warpath, he eventually led a campaign against some other people, which then got help from the jedi, who then punished his entire race with embargos which caused a lot of his people to die of starvation.
then he like, joined some bank, and got command of some really dumb droids which he later, after consulting with dooku, got them to make the magnaguard droids
then dooku enacted his plan, and they kept everything that survived, which was just like his brains, and lungs, and intestines, the rest was droid'd and dooku having altered his brain and memories to make him hate the jedi even more.
KingInBlack posted...
While it was originally canon that Mace Windu crushed Grievous' chest and caused the wheezing, Lucas retconned it to show how flawed their technology was and connect Grievous' technology to Vader.
false. the literal first direction lucas gave to his team to develop a "droid general" was that it needed to be reminiscent of vader. the battle of boz pity, where windu crushed grievous, happened after the 2nd movie, where he already had the voice rasp (which is caused by his lungs being agitated over the implants), and i don't mean only the comic came after but it's set before, i mean that that whole storyline didn't come out until after the movie, and takes places after the events of the movie.
moreover, the battle of boz pity is still canon.