#bashingz

Rajeshk is a worker female roughly in her early thirties. Her mother was previously a worker female in a large coastal Shess clan, but found themself ousted with a litter of larva after a failed coup. They and their co-conspirators formed into a clan of brigands, with Raj being the only survivor of her litter. Rajeshk grew up at-best tolerated and at-worst reviled by the adults of her clan and she's watched it fracture and reform more times than she could count. She left in her adulthood alongside her aging mother and an orphaned toddler centaur named Hlaalu, who she considers a baby sibling. She found work in a wealthy Shess clan and spent several miserable years doing the work of three centaurs in repayment before her mother died and Hlaalu came of working age. She's strongly biased against aliens, their motivations, and their influence on her culture. Hypocritically, she loves her solar-electric ATV as well as her tablet computer, which she mostly uses to watch live wrestling and text her long-distance lover. Her hobbies include smoking stimulants, listening to live wrestling play-by-plays and cleaning her gun. She's mixed ethnicity, her mother was Shess and her father was a Daewirgh bachelor

Bashingz is a worker female in her late 20s. She was born in a Sunchaser clan who've worked in interstellar freighting for over 3 decades. Bashingz practically grew up under propulsion based gravity and is about as used to working with aliens and their technology as a homeworld centaur can be. Her littermate is her current matriarch and it's only caused a lot of strain on their relationship. She likes auditory media (audiobooks, music, podcasts), learning new alien tech and devising new and exciting horrific preparations for centaur printer sausage. It is a constant cultural point of contention between her and Rajeshk that she finds eating plants unsanitary and disgusting but will happily chow down on printer sausage seasoned with human dish detergent. It almost tastes like something.

They met one summer when Bashingz's clan-ship touched down on the Southern Shess peninsula to offload their wares (predominantly alien tech in the form of solar panels, batteries, and vehicle components) and purchase exports (frozen food and smoked meats, bound for Nexus Jovia). Bash traded Rajeshk her old tablet computer for a hit of her smoking pipe (totally a legitimate sale and not a ploy to spend the night smoking stimulants and roughhousing with a giant gorgeous centaur) and the rest is history.