The "Grained One" is the alias given by Sadus the Guide to a largley unknown creature. He seems to be composed of separate particles of black sand, that together somehow produce a collective conciousness. The Jedi Master Vern breifly encountered one of this creature's particles. From the encounter, Vern has managed to conclude that the Grained One is alive in the same way a droid is alive; for, Vern saw, the "black sand" is really a swarm of nanobots - minute robots. These nanobots, acting together, give the Grained One some strange powers. For instance, sonic grenades to not effect him, although he can hear. His ability to "hear" is most likley drawn from the nanobot's ability to sense vibrations in the air, which are translated into sounds; however the nanobots can shut their receptors d