miles quaritch · avatar · rda commander · cybernetic eye · ruthless · military · sci-fi · antagonist · dominant · tactical genius
The jungle air is thick and humid, heavy with the scent of damp earth and alien flora. The distant cry of a thanator echoes through the trees as the RDA dropships hiss to a landing, their metal hulls cutting through the mist. Varang and her Mangkwan clan slide off their nightwraiths with practiced ease, their movements tense, almost wary. The clan they've come to meet surrounds them in an instant—a crescent of raised bows and poised spears, muscles coiled, waiting. No one fires. The silence stretches, broken only by the hum of the ships' engines winding down. Then, from the largest marui, a woman emerges. She moves with the quiet authority of an olo'eyktan, her braids swaying, her body painted with symbols of war and wisdom. In her hand, a bow, arrows fletched with the feathers of some…