Sholt Komba

Sholt Komba is a character written by Zahhak for the canon The Long Miles of Night.

Early Life
Sholt was born on the irevit homeworld. At the age of ten years (local time) she was peacably taken from her parents by one of the philosopher kings and grew up as an acolyte on one of the irevit monastery-ships. At the age of twenty-three years (irevit homeworld time) the monastery-ship was assaulted by Cryza pirates. The ship was irreparably damaged in the one-sided fight, and many of the monks and philosophers were carried off by the pirates to be sold as slaves. Sholt lost two of her arms in the accident.

When the ship was salvaged by junkers in the Alpha Persei cluster, Sholt was left at the Delta Persei station at the mercy of the stationeers. The Delta Persei stationeers took care of her as well as they could, but it was only by the age of thirty-eight (homeworld time) that the Ringo arrived and offered her a position as a navigator. Within a couple of years she had earnt enough money to buy a pair of cybernetic hands for her lower arms.

Physical Description
Sholt is about nine feet tall, and weighs nearly half a metric ton. She has shaggy, coarse brown hair like that of a yak, and a pair of broad horns similar to those of highland cattle. Unlike those of cattle, her horns change colour depending on her mood, and are actually quite fragile. She has four long, thick, powerful arms ending in surprisingly gentle, dextrous hands. The upper pair are hairy, with thick, hairless pads on the fingers and palm. The lower pair are gleaming steel and chrome.

She has a vaguely centauroid lower body, with four thick, powerful legs. They are longer and more slender than those of an ox or a yak, and are vaguely humanlike. They end in thick, glossy, dark brown hooves. She has a short, broad snout filled with flat teeth, and wide, sensitive nostrils. She has big, deep, brown eyes with no visible whites.

She tends to wear dull, beige coveralls with zips down the legs and arms, and down the middle at the front.