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| - They appear to be a type of mechanical based lifeform. (DS9 video game: The Fallen) It has been noted that no Grigari construct has been able to overcome a life or death situation without attempting to bargain for its life. (DS9 novel: The War of the Prophets) Nanotechnology was the secret of the success of Grigari medical technology. Their molecular assembly devices could expertly weave together flesh and steel, uniting living nervous systems directly with computer-control circuits. But it was not a static situation. The flesh of most life-forms would eventually reject the filaments of connection the Grigari devices wove. So the devices were programmed not to stop, in order to continually maintain the connection. Thus, as each layer of living cells became damaged, they were stripped away and replaced by more filaments of circuitry and steel. Eventually, the living body of a Grigari amalgam was completely discarded, replaced with an inexact, mechanical substitute. The nanocomponents of the Grigari were not strictly confined to the biological but were also capable of infiltrating computer systems. By sending strands of the nanotechnology into a system, they were capable of actually reconstructing themselves into duotronic circuitry allowing the nanocomponents to create worm programs with impunity. This made it appear that a network was compromised by insiders when in fact it was the computers themselves that were in control. (ST novel: Federation) This meant that the species were advanced with examples of their technology including nanospores, singularity bombs and flesh regenerators. (DS9 novel: The War of the Prophets) Their culture is based on piracy and, unlike the Ferengi, they will resort to unsavory tactics to make profit. (DS9 video game: The Fallen) The Grigari themselves often claimed themselves as being traders that had come to offer the secrets of eternal life to unsuspecting worlds. When their treatments were later investigated and found to be hideously flawed, the Grigari typically left as one where they moved to other uncharted sectors of space leaving behind the gruesome tales of the horrors their painful technology had wrought on those planets that had dealings with them. (ST novel: Federation)
- The Grigari are a highly-advanced technological civilization from the deep Beta Quadrant, whose territory spills into the Delta Quadrant. They were experts in the fields of nanotechnology and cybernetics, and developed advanced medical techniques from these disciplines. Despite the great distance from the Grigari core systems, they were known to trade with Alpha Quadrant powers. (ST novel: Federation; DS9 novel: War of the Prophets)
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