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So I am 99% sure the answer is no but I recall a LONG time ago someone noting that they put their grotesques in a raider with a Haemonculi so although I have been reading over the codex trying to figure this out I can't figure out how this would be possible besides cheating.

scratch that, just figured it out

yeah, but you've got to be really drunk....

yeah, but you've got to be really drunk....

Yeah, that's my answer to a lot of questions.

So what's the answer?
I don't have a DE codex handy.

The answer is: Who knows?

Grotesques can have Raider if they are accompanied by an Independant Character.

But... the only way they can be 'accompanied' by an Independant Character is for an IC to join them... which obviously can't happen until Deployment (at the very earliest).

What happens in an Escalation mission is anyone's guess.

Oh.

For what it's worth, I suspect that the intention was for you to attach the IC to the unit, in the same way as a Commissar or Warlock is attached to their unit. They simply neglected to include a rule that would actually let you do this...