Krista

Krista facing the banished Varek.

**Krista** is the female main character and protagonist in the Samuel Kyber's Worlds Apart series.

## Personality

Though at times distrustful, Krista shows herself to be brave, intelligent, and determined. She is also very appreciative of other’s attempts to help her.

## Lore

Krista is a survivor of the Droug's takeover of her home, Alvatros. Once a thriving community, the city was attacked and occupied by the Droug, who began indoctrinating survivors and putting them into their army.

Somehow, Krista survived, escaping capture, and began trying to obtain a keystone to activate a portal, through which she could escape, causing grief to the Drougs in the process. This leads to the events of Worlds Apart.

## Story

### Worlds Apart 1

Krista is first seen stalking a Drougs officer called Varek, who had captured Sam and brought him to Alvatros. After shooting two Drougs guards, she attacks Varek in attempt to obtain his keystone, but her plasma gun shots succeed only in gaining his attention (because he has a force field).

The two then get into an extended fight. Krista manages to grab the keystone, but loses it in the ensring battle. Unknown to her at the time, Sam manages to gain possession of the keystone, right before the two escape on a passing train.

Despite her initial distrust (and dislike of being touched), Krista slowly warms up to Sam after he reveals that he had gotten the keystone for her (but at first pretends not to give it to her). Then two are then forced to flee as the train is halted, their presence discovered.

The pair then make their way to the remains of the city of Alvatros. There, they get in a brief skirmish with a small group of Drougs soldiers that were apprehending citizens. Sam takes Krista’s handgun and shoots two of them (though his accuracy was at first dismal), and Krista then stabs the third. Sam tried to hand her back her gun, but she indicates to him to keep it.

Eventually, the pair manage to make their way to a portal but are detected and come under heavy attack. Sam activates the portal with the keystone, but is hit by a plasma bullet and injured. Krista, who is about to go through, turns back to cover him. Sam gets through the portal, but not Krista - she gets captured by the Droug before she can get through. To Sam’s despair, the only thing that makes it through is the spent keystone.

Later, Sam manages to activate the keystone from the energy from the plasma gun he still had. He then went in the portal with his pals.

### Worlds Apart 2

In Episode 2, Krista is first seen hanging by her wrists, unconscious, on a conveyer belt in the ceiling of a Droug ‘captive conversion’ factory.

It is there that Sam finds her, managing to rescue her. The two then destroy the generator that powered the ‘converter’, disabling the factory and freeing the captives from the conveyor.

Sam and Krista hijack a Droug dropship and fly towards the portal. However, the Boss Box Droug changed the layout of the portal as they flew through it and they landed in a barren wasteland. There they saw the exiled Varek. The Droug forces used the portal to attack the city. The final scene shows the Droug mothership and the Droug forces preparing for their assault upon the city.

### Worlds Apart 3

Episode three starts with a scene of the Droug armies destroying the resistance. Despite fierce resistance from local military forces - including infantry, helicopters, and an armored counter advanced - the Droug managed to occupy the majority of the city. Still, the local forces were fighting with everything they had. Many citizens had boarded up their homes, preparing to defend themselves. Others had been killed or captured. Then the scene cuts to Krista and Sam confronting Varek, who walks away, signalling for them to follow him. They walk into what seems like a dilapidated, run-down version of the Droug mothership. There, Varek recharged the Keystone and showed Krista a map of all the planets the Droug had taken over. The trio then go back to the city. They witnessed many civilians killed, turned into soldiers or captured. They then stole a Droug carrier ship and headed to the mothership to take down the Boss Box. When trying to take down Boss Box, Krista gets severely wounded with a gash to her stomach after a blade hit her there. Sam then defeats the Box Boss and the humans who were converted to Drougs are normal again. Sam then carries Krista of the ship and lands hard onto a small area of land near the BPS HQ.

The scene later cuts to a few day later after the invasion. Krista appears when Sam was looking at a grave, which is later revealed to be Varek’s grave, as Krista then lays Varek’s plasma sword on the grave. They both felt sorrow for the Droug. The scene later cuts again back to the forest where the portal near the city. Krista is about to leave but Sam then gives his Keystone to her as a gift. Krista then hugs Sam and goes through the portal. Sam then takes the keystone on the pedestal and leaves.

## Appearance

Krista has blue hair, cat ears, and light-toned skin. Her clothing is a mix of black, brown, and white. She carries a plasma sword strapped to her back and a plasma handgun at her hip.

## Abilities

* Sword - Krista is skilled with her plasma sword, both in sword fighting and otherwise. She is capable of deflecting plasma bullets with it.

* Handgun - An excellent shot, Krista can make kill shots with her plasma handgun from a considerable distance, often in rapid succession.

## Gallery

Thumbnail for Worlds Apart Episode 3, showing Krista and Sam facing the Droug bossThumbnail for Worlds Apart Episode 1Sam and Krista towards the ending for worlds apart 3
## Trivia

* In the vision of her past, it is shown that her blue hair and cat ears are a prevalent trait among the female members of her species. Cat ears were also seen in males, but with brown or black hair.
* Krista’s plasma handgun and sword are very similar to their respective counterparts in the Drougs army, but with blue instead of red-orange plasma. They may be Drougs weapons but modified to use a different plasma. Or it could be loaded with a different kind of plasma. Or they may have belonged to the Alvatrites, the similarities being coincidental.
* The ‘cat ears’ trait is shared by other BPS characters, notably Naia and Niika, from the earlier BPS animations and Songs of War Series respectively, maybe suggesting they came from Alvatros or vise versa.

* Krista is the only major female character in the Worlds Apart series.
* In the beginning of Worlds Apart 3, Krista, Sam, and Varek enter what appears to be a run down Droug mothership. This could suggest that the place Krista, Sam, and Varek went to was the home planet of the Droug.

## Notes

1. ↑ A partisan is a civilian who clandestinely fights an enemy force that has occupied their country through warfare (an example is Tito’s Yugoslav partisans fighting the Nazies during World War Two).