Hashori was a nine-foot female Yautja of the Widow Clan in Tim Lebbon's Rage War novels. She had no obvious breasts, and her build was as broad as any male. She captured the Rage android Liliya on the ship Zeere Za, tortured her for days, then took her off the ship when Alexander's army boarded, using a small cloaked craft Hashori had built herself. She later fought on the Rage flagship Macbeth, took a remaining Yautja ship, and left with Isa Palant and the Tanns after speaking of the pilgrimage adult Yautja make to the homeworld at least once.
Widow Clan And The Zeere Za
In August 2692 Liliya drifted an unarmed assault ship toward a larger Yautja hull and was taken aboard the Zeere Za. Hashori was already wounded in the left shoulder and blamed Liliya's drive technology for Rage attacks on Yautja habitats. She destroyed the small ship from a viewing window, then held Liliya for days of torture without asking questions. When Liliya asked whether a Widow Clan mate had died well, Hashori did not name the dead.
The torture chain used smooth oval links that hid spikes, each carrying a small yellow egg that hatched once it broke the skin. Hashori saw Liliya's thin white blood and tortured her harder after that, then used a sensor rod to keep the prisoner alive, a silver ball that ignored the ship's gravity, and a thin barbed creature with a mouth of tiny teeth. Two other Yautja looked in once, one taller and darker with a ruined face, the other smaller, yellow-speckled, and armed. Hashori did not ask about the data Liliya claimed to carry. She said many brothers and sisters had already fallen, that the survivors were ready for more conflict, and that Liliya would occupy her until the enemy arrived.
When Alexander's Xenomorphs boarded with regimental marks on their skulls, Hashori called those fire dragons an ancient subject of Yautja hunts and said the number of dead did not concern her. She freed Liliya, carried her under one arm, and fought in the corridors with a smoking shoulder blaster and a pike already deformed by Xenomorph blood. She pinned one Xenomorph to a wall, lost her mask and armor to the blood, and argued with two hunters who wanted the android left behind. After that exchange she pulled Liliya into a small hangar craft, and the Zeere Za was gone about an hour later. During the flight Hashori said a planet she had once called home had fallen, that Yautja treasured memory more than objects, and that every death erased centuries of story. She was taking Liliya into the Human Sphere, where many of her kind were regrouping, because the android's body held a way to fight the Rage.
Escape Into The Human Sphere
In October 2692, fifty-one days after they left the Zeere Za, Hashori closed on the independent station called Hell with Liliya, in Alien: Invasion. She spent most of those seven weeks in the flight seat, rarely eating or sleeping, with her helmet and armor off and a battle spear close at hand. The ship answered her directly, with controls rising from a silver panel and a second seat forming for Liliya when needed. Hashori spoke only Yautja, reported that habitats and ships had been destroyed, and said humans and Yautja had entered an uneasy peace after the hunters fled into the Sphere, then treated Liliya as cargo for the rest of the run.
On day fifty-two Hashori said Liliya's people had found them, that Alexander's force was closing, and that their only chance was a human drophole. They dropped through even after the hole could not be used cleanly, and Hashori reported no sign that the Rage had followed. At Hell Station she left the ship first in warrior garb, with a drooped shoulder blaster, blades on her belt, a heavy trident in one hand, and her helmet under the other arm, and told the mercenaries their station smelled of fear. The mercenaries locked her in a cell but left her weapons with her. She stood in a corner without expression, answered Jiango Tann with a human nod, and later lowered a leveled spear when Liliya asked her not to force a return to the ship.
Hell Station And Alexander
In November 2692, Hashori was on the mercenary ship Satan's Saviour with Liliya as Alexander closed on Hell Station, in Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon, and she asked to return to her own ship. When Yautja units struck Alexander's flagship she said, in her own tongue, that the Yautja were winning. After the wreck burned, Ware nodded at her and she did not return the gesture. On the run toward a Company drophole she took a comm station from the mercenary Robo, listened to a Yautja message, and had Liliya translate. Her people had captured a damaged Rage general. Yaquita of the Wounded Clan had pulled buried data from that android, and they now knew where the Rage mother ship sat. Isa Palant, the human who had sealed the peace with Kalakta, was working the same files.
A Yautja combat unit then found Satan's Saviour. Hashori identified the incoming ship as Yautja and offered to help fight it. A hit threw her across the cabin and left her spear stuck in a bulkhead. When Xenomorphs forced the reserve airlock she went first down the corridor, helmet on, spear up, and her shoulder laser lighting the passage, then drew a blade after acid burned her legs and tore through the first beasts while Hoot and Ware fired past her. A tail spike that cut Hoot's armor struck her back without stopping her. She stood wounded in the wrecked compartment, then followed the shooting deeper into the ship until other Yautja arrived and she greeted them.
Macbeth
Three uncloaked Yautja ships flew at Macbeth and docked one on another as a bridge. As the ships locked onto the outer hull, Hashori spoke Kalakta's name and went through the breach first with her spear. A turret killed one of those ships as the Tanns crossed. After Liliya burned the android net and the generals detonated, Hashori returned with a dozen wounds, no helmet, and a spear almost eaten by Xenomorph blood. She told Palant that other humans had lived and that they had proved tougher than expected. Two Yautja were dead, Hoot was dead, and Kalakta was not among the survivors they counted. Hashori spoke with the Yautja pilots still circling the wreck, then said the stern held the hyperdrive, that Rage ships elsewhere had also blown, and that the Yautja would keep what was left of Macbeth. Palant went with her, and the Tanns sat beside Palant on the ship Hashori took.
Human dropholes across the Sphere were already dead. From the pilot seat Hashori said the Yautja had dropholes of their own, and other secrets. When Palant asked if she would show them, Hashori said perhaps, then added that adult Yautja make a pilgrimage to the homeworld at least once and that it might be time she made that journey. She called the road far and long, then told them nothing more.
Appearance And Weapons
Hashori stood nine feet tall, with a broad build and no obvious breasts. On the flight to Hell Station she sat without helmet or armor.
Her fight kit was scarred personal armor, metal-strapped sandals, a drooped shoulder blaster, a wrist control panel, blades and guns at her hip, a bandolier, a spiked weapon on her back, and dried scraps on a neck wire. At Hell Station she also carried a heavy trident and held her helmet in one hand. Through the war she kept a battle spear close, and she left Macbeth helmetless with that spear almost eaten by acid.
Similar Predators
Hashori belonged with other named huntresses rather than with clan speakers. Yaquita fought the same war from a wheeled platform after losing both legs and pulled the Drukathi name from a damaged Rage android. Big Mama was another large female hunter from earlier AvP stories, built for the hunt rather than for a throne. Hashori's path through the Rage War ran from the Zeere Za through Hell Station and off Macbeth. She followed Kalakta into that last fight, and he was not among the survivors who left.
Conclusion
Hashori was the Widow Clan hunter who tortured Liliya on the Zeere Za and took her off that ship about an hour before it was destroyed. She reached Hell Station after a seven-week flight, fought Alexander's forces aboard Satan's Saviour, and left Macbeth helmetless with a ruined spear. She took Palant and the Tanns onto a remaining Yautja ship, said her people would keep the hull, and turned toward the homeworld pilgrimage she had not yet made.
Appearances
- Predator: Incursion (2015)
- Alien: Invasion (2016)
- Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon (2016)
Tag Categories: Individual Predators | Predators From The Novels | Predators Who Survived | Predator Lore
