Grell Panib, a "short, stiff-backed," mustachioed, Human male Bakuran who served with thinning red hair, was General of the Bakuran Defense Fleet during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Panib formerly served under Pter Thanas, where he first met Princess Leia Organa. Following the attempted Ssi-ruuvi invasion of Bakura in 28 ABY, Panib and Lwothin, leader of the P'w'eck Emancipation Movement, signed a treaty and entered into an alliance.