Loma Slife

The Chorna were among the first species to discover faster-than-light travel. Aided by a natural psionic homing instinct, they charted the stars and built titanic cities and mysterious monuments across hundreds of worlds while Earth’s Serpent People still fumbled through their first spells. Their era long since passed, only a handful of Chorna remain in the galaxy as ancient, reclusive, and re­spectable guardians of knowledge and sacred sites.
And then there’s Loma Slife.
Possibly the last born member of her race, Loma has no respect for a long-dead heritage or responsibilities to obscure legacies she’s never been a part of. Instead, she plies the spaceways hunting bounties as a thinly-veiled excuse to pick fights and add to her ever-growing col­lection of trophies. Her strength, uncanny senses, and dedication to the job result in no shortage of crime lords, planetary dictators, and general scum willing to pay her outrageous fees, and her curious powers ensure that no one, no matter how skilled, can escape. Despite all her power, though, Loma wants very little out of life beyond a few good fights, exotic highs, and even more exotic males.

Physical Description

Special abilities

Like all Chorna, Loma is massive and intimidating, able to weather incredible damage, survive harsh environments, and live for millennia. She is an exceptionally durable and strong member of her people—traits she derisively ex­plains with a different origin every time it comes up, from stealing Preserver technology to eating a space wizard. Loma’s experiences have similarly warped her racial navi­gation sense, allowing her to psychically bond not only to locations she has visited, but to any trophy she claims—lit­erally any prize she takes from a beaten opponent, from their weapons to their body. She can track its loca­tion anywhere in the cosmos and even warp the cosmic tapestry to bring it to her. She outfits herself and her star cruiser—a candy-apple red hotrod of an interdictor, named Beast—with tech either stolen or taken in payment from a dozen different alien races. Her current arsenal includes Lor weapons that cause psychic feedback, a Grue pistol that forces a creature into a stable form, ritual swords from The Stellar Khanate, and a Ruluan gaunt­let that disables offensive powers.
Loma’s trophies are up for grabs to anyone who can best her in combat, with victors able to claim any of her trea­sures and break her psychic link to them. Indeed, defeat­ing Loma at a challenge she agrees to is the only way to ever truly be free of the bounty hunter from which no man escapes. Not that getting her to agree to a challenge is much of a challenge, especially after the first dozen beers.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Loma is violent, pride­ful, and in love with all the shiny toys found across the universe. She is a crass loner who takes pride in making others un­comfortable; the more respectable a person, the more satisfied she is to get under their skin or draw out their temper. She likes a good fight to prove that no one’s better than she is, and that extends to morally as well—everyone, deep down inside, is just as big a schazzo as she is, but at least she’s honest about it.
Equal parts warrior and gearhead, ancient racial instincts drive Loma to horde all manner of things, from alien weapons to secrets to favors owed. While she shows little empathy for other sentients, she has a soft spot for well-built machines and proves especially maternal over her hotrod and trophy collection.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Not one for long-term companionship, Loma takes allies of convenience wherever she can find them—including criminals, helpful local heroes, and duped law enforce­ment agencies—but rarely maintains such alliances for long. Those few beings she considers friends she still only visits occasionally, but her usual bullying softens into a gentle and flirtatious teasing. She’s only amiable to others when drunk, high, or otherwise in the throes of spending the spoils of her hard work, and even then Slife’s friendships end in fist-fights or shoot-outs as often as her bounty hunts do.
Loma is on the watch lists of a dozen galactic empires as well as The Star Knights, though the vagaries of inter­galactic bounty law usually keep her activities just this side of legal. Loma herself tends to fixate on the biggest and most dangerous bounties, both for the thrill and the ample payouts. She considers her 5,000-year-lifespan too short to hold serious grudges.