Shamt Kithrai

Shamt Kithrai is a character written by Zahhak for The Long Miles of Night.

Early Life
Shamt Kithrai was born below-decks on the chzir explorator ship Impending Sunrise. She became an engineer at an early age and soon worked her way up the ranks, becoming a master engineer by the time she was an adult. She soon transferred to a larger ship and worked her way up the ranks there, until she made into the lead cadre of engineers in the chzir diaspora. Within a year she had been transferred from the engineering cadre to the Prometheus, also known as the All-Forge, where she became one of the lead forge-masters.

Physical description
The klashtu body follows sixfold symmetry rather than threefold, but are similar in structure to the threefold chzir. Each vertical segment has one leg, one arm, one eye, and one spike-toothed jaw, giving them a six-jawed mouth and twelve limbs in total. Kithrai in particular is about 7'10" tall. Their hands have six equidistant fingers tipped with thick, tough claws, and are able to rotate 540 degrees in each direction from the rest position. Their limbs are relatively short and thick compared to those of a chzir, and their bodies are more ovoid rather than cylindrical. Unlike the chzir, they communicate in aural languages, although they still have some chameleonic ability. The klashtu have heavy chitinous plates on their arms, legs, and body, fitting together into a natural armour plating that can withstand considerable temperatures and impacts. Even without their armour, the klashtu are extremely hardy and tough, perhaps more so than humans in some ways, and also have a centralised nervous system buried deep inside their body to prevent brain damage.

Kithrai has far more limbs than the typical klashtu, as she has been modified and augmented with extensive cybernetics over many years, and now has a full complement of cybernetic limbs, as well as cybernetic tentacles, pedipalps, arms, legs, and other limbs beyond counting, adorned with eyes, speakers, sensors, tools, manipulators, and more.

Kithrai has a kind of russet-brown carapace and lighter creamy-brown skin underneath, and ruby-red eyes with no significant variance.

Kithrai tends to wear heavy, steel-plated armour with tinted visors over her eyes, and ports that seal around her metal limbs.