Abel G. Peña - Writer

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Please welcome Abel G. Peña to the Galactic Senate for a live chat on 02/20/06.

Abel is the author of a number of Insider articles, including Who's Who: The Imperial Grand Admirals in Insider 60, The History of the Mandalorians in Insider 80 and Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous in the current Insider (No 86) together with the soon-to-be-published-on-hyperspace supplement The Story of General Grievous II: Lord of War to be followed by Endnotes for the Story of General Grievous in his blog at the end of the month...

Some of his work can be read in these links:

Featured Blog: Only Sith Deal in Absolutes

The Dark Forces Saga

Droids, Technology and the Force: A Clash of Phenomena (Hyperspace only)

Abel posts over at TOS under the name "Halagad", particularly in these two threads:

The Story of General Grievous
and
The other Imperial Grand Admirals

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Hi Folks - we're going to get started in a few minutes here so hang tight and start sending me your questions via PM.

Thanks and have fun!

[Abel G. Pena]

Hey, folks! I'm all set.

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The GS would like to thank Abel for coming to hang out with us tonight. Remember to PM me or IM me any of your questions and I'll get them posted for you as soon as possible. We'll need lots of questions tonight to keep the man busy so get started.

Welcome everyone and here we go...

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JediFan421 asks:

Mr. Pena, I have a few questions on your story on General Grievous, Unknown Soldier.

First, what ever happened to General Grievous's lightsabers and mask?

[I'll post the second and third parts after this one is answered - T]

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[Abel G. Pena]

Hey JediFan! Thanks for swinging by.

Originally posted by T'bone@Feb 20 2006, 08:02 PM
JediFan421 asks:

Mr. Pena, I have a few questions on your story on General Grievous, Unknown Soldier.

First, what ever happened to General Grievous's lightsabers and mask?

Hopefully you enjoyed Unknown Soldier in Insider 86, the first part of the Story of General Grievous. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] As for Grievous' mask, he had at least two of them. The one he used while he was still flesh and blood, which he inherited from his dead pops, and the one armorplast one he carved to stick on the face of his cyborg body.

The original Kaleesh one ended up in the hands of Count Dooku, in the Visionaries comic story "Eyes of Revolution." It's possible Dooks got it back to Grievy, but the Sith Lord didn't really have such a hot opinion of the general, so he might have just trashed it because he could.

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[Abel G. Pena]

As for the mask Grievous carved himself for his droid body, that one has a bit of a story, which ties into the character N-K Necrosis (from the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies) as revealed in the second part of the Story of General Grievous, Lord of War. (You can access that if you have a Hyperspace subscription).

The N-K Necrosis experiment basically used Grievous' old cyborg body and recycled it to create a new, droid-killing machine. Obviously, Grievous second mask was still plastered to this droid's body. To make a long story short, Necrosis was defeated and dismantled, and Grievous' mask was illegally sold to a high-ranking Imperial admiral who likes to collect art... i.e. Grand Admiral Thrawn.

The idea was inspired by discussion with the fans on some message boards. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img] You can learn the story behind that on my blog here.

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JediFan421 asks:

Second, you said that Adi Gallia was killed by Grievous but in Revenge of the Sith, she is killed by clones on Salecumi?

Finally, will you do anymore articles for Insider?

Thanks for your time and May the Force be with You!

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* welcomes Joe Corroney while we're waiting.

Everyone say Hey Joe!