What Grievous Did With a Group of Jedi Younglings He Captured in Legends

In General Grievous (2005) comic, he was tearing through the Outer Rim with his droid armies when he hit a Republic cruiser carrying a whole clan of Jedi Initiates—kids still a couple of years away from becoming full Padawans. After cutting down the Jedi Master on board, Grievous found a room packed with young trainees. He killed the Padawans who stood in his way, took their lightsabers as trophies, and dragged the surviving younglings onto his flagship. His next target sat close by: the Ugnaught world of Gentes in the Anoat system.

Gentes Falls—and the Message He Sends

The assault on Gentes was quick. Grievous captured nearly the entire Ugnaught population and forced them into confinement under a massive dome. Once the Separatists declared victory, Count Dooku contacted Grievous to congratulate him. During their talk, Dooku asked about the younglings. Dooku wanted them for Sith experiments, but Grievous argued for another approach. Using Geonosian technology, he claimed he could push the children’s Dark Side potential and rebuild them with cybernetics, much like what had been done to him. Dooku allowed him to continue.

Grievous marched the younglings out onto a balcony overlooking the capital. He mocked them, telling them their lives would no longer follow the Jedi path. Instead, they would become soldiers under his command. One child refused and used the Force to grab a lightsaber from his belt. She destroyed two battle droids before Grievous caught her. To prove his control, he carried her to the edge and pointed at the dome full of captives below. With one command, he ordered an orbital strike that obliterated the dome and killed everyone inside. The younglings were then dragged back to their cells while preparations for their transformation began.

The Plan: Make Them Into Mini-Grievouses

In the foundries, engineers worked on cybernetic suits designed to remake the children in Grievous’s image. The masks resembled his own, and the frames would replace much of their bodies with machinery. The process meant removing organs and amputating limbs. Grievous intended to build a squad of child warriors turned into cyborg weapons, shaped through pain and technology.

The plan collapsed when Ugnaught resistance fighters broke into the cells from underground. They led the younglings through tunnels and shafts beneath the Separatist facilities on Belsus, a moon serving as a production site. Grievous quickly learned of the escape and ordered his droids to eliminate them. The chase ran through collapsing tunnels and hidden passages as the younglings struggled to stay ahead of their pursuers.

The Rescue Led to a Brutal Duel

While this unfolded, Padawan Flynn Kybo was moving on his own mission. After losing his Master to Grievous on Vandos, he proposed a direct strike to the Jedi Council. They refused, calling it murder. Kybo went rogue with Master B’dard Tone and Padawan Codi Ty. Together, they gathered support from miners at Banvhar Station, people who hated Grievous and the Confederacy. Tracking Separatist chatter, they discovered the younglings’ capture and set their course for Belsus.

Back on Belsus, Grievous found the escapees at an Ugnaught hideout. He cornered them and allowed one brave youngling to face him with a borrowed lightsaber. She charged. Two swift counters sent her flying. Grievous drew back for the finishing stroke.

At that moment, the rogue Jedi strike team arrived. One of them rushed the children back to the ship, while the others stayed behind to fight Grievous. The duel was brutal. Grievous cut one Jedi apart, leaving the last to make a desperate choice. He sacrificed himself by collapsing the entire refinery, bringing it down on both himself and the cyborg general. The younglings escaped with their escort and returned to Coruscant. They survived, scarred but alive, and continued their training at the Jedi Temple.

Aftermath

Grievous lived through the destruction, injured but not broken. The project to turn Jedi children into cybernetic warriors ended in failure, but his hatred of the Jedi grew deeper. Flynn Kybo and his allies left their mark on the conflict, though their defiance also set them apart from the Council. The war pressed on, with Grievous still hunting Jedi across the galaxy.