Apex Orca

### **"The White and Black Attack... The Orca!"** ~ Narrator

Mahana, better known as Apex Orca or Apex Killer Whale, is a large, monstrous female orca, or killer whale, that lives in Caviar Keys of Port Clovis in the 2020 shark video game,
Maneater. She's the sixth of the seven Apex Predators living in Port Clovis.

## Characteristics

Measuring an estimated 10 m (32 ft) in length, Mahana's appearance is definitely quite extraordinary. At Level 40, she's the largest and most powerful of all orcas, or killer whales, in Port Clovis, which are level 30 for regular and 35 for hunted. Like all orcas, Mahana has black and white colors on her body, but they have been altered a bit to make her more terrifying. She has super sharp teeth that can allow better bite force on her prey and a dropped over dorsal fin which indicates her condition of living in captivity. Despite being a large orca, Mahana is incredibly agile than other marine animals. She can easily stun prey, and grab on to them to thrash around. Like all orcas or killer whales around Port Clovis, Mahana doesn't make clicks, whistles, and pulsed calls like real orcas. Instead, she makes roaring noises that make her sound more monstrous.

Some players think Mahana doesn't quite look like a real orca, since her design is different than regular orcas. Her head for example represents a Pilot Whale's head, like if she was the offspring of a female pilot whale and a male orca. Additionally, it is unknown how Mahana got as large as she did, as it would make more sense if she was a male orca since males are larger than females.

## Life In Caviar Keys

Mahana lives in a Marine Mammal Park Stunt Show in Port Clovis, located in the Caviar Keys. Her performance pool is likely referred to the Shamu Stadium in Seaworld, given how the audience seats and stage are set up. The pool is certainly much bigger to allow more swimming space. Underwater are three buoy balls that Mahana can play around with and exercise, and above are 3 hoops she can jump into. The bio in the interaction menu reveals that Mahana has been performing at the Marine Park for 8 years and the once gentle Orca has gained a whole lot of aggression and turning against her trainers, even other orcas.

It is very likely Mahana got the aggression after the main antagonist, Scaly Pete has been paid to catch an orca for the shows and she ended up as the chosen one. Despite this, over the years, Mahana became the apex predator of Caviar Keys, feeding on a diet of fish, seals, sharks, possibly other orcas, and her favorite prey: turtles.

## Fight against the MEGA Shark

After the female Bull Shark reaches to MEGA max level, she completes the main objectives of the Caviar Keys with population control and hunted animals. After completing the objectives, the last objective, "Killer Queen" will appear and the MEGA shark heads to the Marine Mammal Park. Upon enter the Marine Park, a cutscene plays showing Mahana twirling fast while hitting a large beach ball before staring viciously at the player in a freeze screen as the Narrator says, "The White and Black Attack... The Orca!" Then, Mahana swims out of view as the cutscene ends.

After the cutscene, the fight between Apex Orca and the MEGA shark begins. The shark has to be very careful about Mahana's attacks since she's incredibly agile and the fact she can inflict a lot of damage with the thrash. Also, attempting to perform a thrash attack on the orca is impossible since any animal at a higher level than MEGA (Level 30) can't be grabbed onto and thrashed. In order to beat the orca faster, the MEGA shark will have to drive it to the bottom of the pool where Mahana would be more vulnerable and stun it with the bone tail whip. After half of her health is gone, Mahana loses her flopped dorsal fin and slowly starts to weaken. After taking the last hits and bites from the MEGA shark, Mahana finally dies and her body floats in the water after a last whip from the shark. This also grants the female MEGA Shark the Bone Head evolution to provide plenty of protection when fighting very strong and hostile animals like other Orcas and Sperm Whales. Once bitten one more time, the Orca's body now becomes big meat chunks for the MEGA shark to eat and she swims out of the Marine Park into The Gulf to finish her mission of defeating Scaly Pete and the last Apex Predator, the Apex Sperm Whale.

## Gallery

* The White and Black Attack... The Orca!
* orca