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| - Gringat's first home was on an island named Poliaz, where he worked as a general handyman and liked to tinker with machinery in his spare time. After a while he became incredibly skilled with machinery, and left to the island of Xia to ply his trade as a weapon and vehicle engineer. His GringatTronics line became fairly popular until he lost business to Nuparu's Vahki and the matoran Ferrum . Unbeknownst to him, many of his designs were also stolen by Makuta Raximoras. After what he deemed a "sucessful waste of a century", Gringat returned home to Poliaz to ply his trade there, instead. It is at this stage he bought a tatou runt he named Biza, to pull his cart. Unfortunately, he could not afford his old home, and had to settle for a small flat over a shop in a rather unfavourable area of the city. It is there that he became the victim of theft once again, this time by a gang of matoran that went by the name of the Black Delta. After Gringat had naiively been selling weapons to both sides, they stole what little blueprints and materials he had left. Furious, and stupidly, he swore revenge on them and joined the Black Deltas' rival, the Red Stars, in an attempt to get back at them. While in the Red Star gang, Gringat became addicted to Weld, a compund made of ground Morbuzakh berries. Fortunately, the gangs did not have long before most of their numbers were arrested by the City Guard after a large gang fight - Gringat included. In the struggle, a Red Star member had shot Gringat close to his heartlight with one of his own stolen weapons. Gringat had sold his weapons legally, and so had far fewer crimes to his name than the other gangmembers. The Guard captain, Xalos, offered him a way of redemtion - community service. From then on, Gringat focused on equipping the Guard and creating defenses for the island's coasts. Over time he made an uneasy friendship with Xalos, Gratigan (Xalos' deputy), Soleku and, through Soleku, Eki. Gringat fell in love with Soleku the moment he laid eyes on her, but never summoned the courage to tell her this while he was still a matoran. While the five were together, Makuta Gorast infiltrated the island and brainwashed one of their toa - Tolovan. Eki was also incapacitated by a shadowbolt at this time, and was taken to the island of Korrothis by Lord Nivorn. Their other toa, Lizena, died during a battle with a Kanohi Dragon three years later, in which the remaining four matoran were also involved, although Gringat himself merely remote-controlled his weaponry instead of getting close like the others. As both toa had then gone, Vanembar introduced a plan to get more toa to defend the island. Working with Lord Reglas, a project was set out to create a new toa team out of volunteers from Poliaz' population. The procedure was extremely dangerous, and many matoran died. Soleku, Gringat, Xalos, Gratigan and Orabmar survived, however, and joined the new team. Abarium and Brogas also joined the team, as they had heard about the plan and were already toa. Shortly after the formation of the Toa Vanembar, the Leage of Six Kingdoms collapsed. Gringat's mask as a matoran was a powerless green Kualsi.
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