Nikhh Torsk

(she/her), age unknown

Inside the less explored areas of Vohd lives a female Harch technician, just close enough from all urban development to stay communicated with others when she needs it while still living in isolation.

White-haired and quite tall, Nikhh Torsk landed on Vohd because of incorrect hyperspace calculations, crashing her ship in the middle of the fungal jungle. Then, she fell on one of the Fog Wardens' traps while wandering the planet. Pana K'tta, leader of the faction, saw that the Harch meant no harm and helped her get close to civilized areas and then left. The droid maker then moved on with her life but never forgot that moment of kindness and, now that she's become crazy and pun-obsessed, it's one of the things that helps her cling to reality.

Once she got adapted to life on Vohd, Nikhh decided to put her skills (and multiple arms) to use. She wasn't the best at repairing droids or creating gadgets because her education and training never finished; however, everything she built, she did with passion and quickly. After learning to survive in the mushroom forests, Torsk started scavenging all the broken-down droids she could find. She considered everything useful, from complete, almost functional droids, droids covered in fungal growth, or small droid parts to toolkits and pieces of "junk" like mere nuts, bolts, and cables. Nikhh keeps all of that in her broken-down ship, which she never found a way to repair.

One day, after years of solitude, a young boy came to her. Claiming that he had gotten lost in the forests, he chatted her up, admired her tech trove and work, and then left, decided to give her a new thing to focus her time on. When the boy came back after three days, he had brought two malfunctioning mouse droids and asked if Nikhh could repair them.

She did, gladly, and also gave the droids a paint job and renaming. The boy took one back with him and let the Harch keep the other one as a promise that he would return with more work for her. Slowly (and unknown by Nikhh Torsk), the hallways of UTiCo's headquarters filled with repainted and renamed mouse droids. Nobody knew where they were coming from, but no one ever questioned it.

The rendezvous with the young boy were the only times when Nikhh had contact with other beings and, though much appreciated by her, did not prevent her from developing a unique (and a little strange) personality.

Nikhh has been living on Vohd for longer than she would admit and, due to her reserved lifestyle, few people (the young boy, Madame Hirani, and Pana K'tta) know about her and what she does. The tech genius has designed a unique respirator to fit her chelicerae when she goes out to scavenge droid parts but isn't sure how effective it is. Although she has six eyes, the four smaller ones are always covered by her hair growing over them and by the helmets she wears when building droids or scavenging the mushroom forests (which are, actually, the only protective equipment she wears).

Nikhh's lifestyle could give the impression that part of her craziness comes from developing Funglung, although she shows no physical signs of addiction or sickness.

(NPC submitted by pavlogs\_)