Grodin Tierce

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Grodin Tierce
Star Wars character

Position	stormtrooper, Imperial Royal Guard, Major
Homeworld	Original, unknown; clone, Wayland
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Height	??? (the clone's height was presumably equal to the original Grodin Tierce)
Affiliation	Galactic Empire
Portrayed by	N/A

In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Grodin Tierce was a human male who served as a Royal Guard to Emperor Palpatine, and later was the instigator of a plot to cripple the New Republic, and command the remains of the Empire.

[edit] Original's history

Tierce began his military career as a stormtrooper under the designation TR-889 and proved himself an exceptional soldier, which is was why he was chosen for training as a Royal Guard by Emperor Palpatine.

In 4 ABY, Tierce was embedded in a stormtrooper unit on Magagran battling one of the Rebel Alliance's cells. The periodic rotation of Royal Guards back into the Stormtrooper Corps proved vital to Tierce when a large number of Royal Guards perished in the destruction of the second Death Star.

After the death of Palpatine, Tierce came to serve as a stormtrooper under the command of Grand Admiral Thrawn onboard his flagship, the Chimaera.

[edit] Clone history

Thrawn, impressed with Tierce's fighting skills and physical ability, chose the former Royal Guardsman to take part in a new cloning procedure two months before the Battle of Bilbringi in 9 ABY. Thrawn made use of a technology discovered in Mount Tantiss to transfer his own strategic genius to the flash learning matrix. While he had hoped to create a powerful group of warlords that combine Stormtrooper strength with his own military brilliance, the Tierce clone proved to be little more than a "tactically brilliant Stormtrooper" and the program was cancelled. When Tierce died in one of Thrawn's Outer Rim campaigns, the clone stepped in and took over in place of the true Grodin Tierce. Like Thrawn, Tierce failed to anticipate Rukh's interference and murder of Thrawn, but Tierce personally killed the Noghri as he fled.

Some time later, Tierce had assumed the rank of Major, and became an aid to Moff Disra. Tierce used Disra and Flim, a con artist who could impersonate Thrawn, to try and overthrow the Republic in chaos (by use of the Caamaas issue) and stop the Empire from pursuing the peace treaty which Admiral Pellaeon, supreme commander of the Imperial fleet, wished.

In the end, Tierce’s incipient clone madness and megalomania was his own undoing. Pellaeon was able to uncover the truth of the clone Tierce’s origins, reveal Flim as an imposter and settle with the New Republic for a series of peace talks. Tierce himself found his death at the business end of Shada D'ukal’s zenji needle.