Grig Griez

Around the year 3024, Grig Griez was a crimelord within the Draconis Combine. Alledgedly operating from an uncharted periphery world off Land's End, he acted as a middle-man for Matabushi Incorporated during their Operation Inroad and worked with the notorious smuggler Kangaroo Jack. He was also well informed about the Dark Wing, and able to identify their crest to Gideon Braver. Subsequently, he employed Gideon Braver as a courier to "Brown", one of his agents on Dustball. Brown had orders to kill Gideon Braver but he survived because the delivery turned out to be a poisonous agent to kill Brown in turn. Upon realizing this, Brown tipped him off to Kangaroo Jack's JumpShip, the "Stone Arrow", instead of killing him.

The Kurita Ministry of Peaceful Order and Honor on Galedon V levied a bounty of 200,000 C-Bills against Grig Griez in 3024 for his numerous crimes of murder, rapine, destruction of personal property, arson, grand theft, assault of Draconis government officials, counterfeiting, forgery, piracy, and others.

It is possible for the player (as Gideon Braver) to collect the bounty after killing Griez later in the game, but re-visiting (and then killing) him is not required to successfully finish the game; Griez's death at the hands of Gideon Braver is therefore ambigous canon.

Griez was described as a bloated man with merciless black eyes and a think and sinister voice. He maintained a secret underground base outside a major city on a Draconis Combine world; the scenery in the base was reminiscent of an ancient Arabian Nights holovid.

The exact world on which his base is located is randomized among several worlds in the game; typical locations include Delacruz, Tabayama and New Samarkand.

Other Information

• Grig Griez was introduced as a villain in the 1989 Activision computer game MechWarrior, where the player takes the role of Gideon Braver in his quest to find out about and stall Operation Inroad, and reclaim the Chalice.