Hishinde was a Yautja hunter in "A Place of No Honor," a short story by Sarah Gailey and Fran Galán in the first issue of Predator: Black, White & Blood, published by Marvel in 2025. Hidden by its cloak, it walked the floor of the annual weaponry conference of Bay-O-Net Inc., which the company advertised as the largest in the Western Hemisphere. A salesman's new tracking drone exposed the hunter during a live demonstration, and Hishinde killed him for aiming the weapon at it. It then killed the armed guests who fought back, judged none of them worthy, and left without a single trophy, carrying only a few conference badges as evidence.
Biography
Arrival At The Conference
Hishinde arrived at the annual weaponry conference of Bay-O-Net Inc. while its halls were crowded with buyers looking over rifles, pistols and other weapons on the display stands. The company promoted the event to passionate amateurs, dedicated hobbyists and seasoned professionals, and it promised its guests the newest defensive and offensive technology. Hidden by its cloak, the hunter moved among the badge-wearing guests without being seen. No other Yautja came to the conference with it, and none of the buyers or salesmen in the crowded halls noticed that it was there.
The Bay-O-Net Demonstration
On the main stage, a moustached salesman wearing a headset reminded the crowd of the company's classic MANTARAY device, which imitated a cell tower to collect the phone data of everyone nearby. He then introduced the latest product from Heiress, Inc., a drone called Bay-O-Net that combined that tracking system with new gamma-laser technology. According to his pitch, its GLS could lock onto any living creature, even one behind a barricade, and return the full biometrics of a target group. A single phone in a crowd was enough for it to identify a hundred people, and he promised that nobody in range could hide from it.
For the demonstration, the salesman locked the drone onto his own demo phone and read out the biometrics of everyone within 50 feet of it. The first reading matched a man in the crowd who stood five foot seven and weighed 231 pounds. The next reading was a target eight feet tall and about six hundred pounds, which the salesman laughed off as a joke by the programmers. The drone was tracking Hishinde, whose cloak then failed beside him in a crackle of green energy. The hunter repeated his reassurance, "Nothing to worry about, folks," back at him.
The Massacre
Hishinde judged the salesman at once. A man with a weapon like the Bay-O-Net drone should have been a great warrior, but he reacted with less tenacity than wild prey, and the hunter thought him no better than livestock. Hishinde killed him on the spot and left his body on the floor beneath the hovering drone. The salesman was not worthy of a warrior's death, and he would have lived if he had not targeted the hunter with his weapon. The killing sent the other guests running for the guns on the display stands, and one panicking guest described the hunter only as a huge thing that had slaughtered the salesman.
Hishinde followed a strict honor code in which an armed opponent was a threat, and a threat was an invitation to honorable combat. It expected the guests to be eager to fight, to kill and to die with their cheeks blooded. Instead, two men at a gun counter argued over skipping a background check for a rifle, and the hunter decided that neither was worthy of a true hunt. When one guest raised a rifle, Hishinde hoped he might show some valor. He did not, and the hunter killed him, then killed a man who grabbed a woman to use as a shield and a guest wearing a VR headset.
More guests took rifles, pistols and shotguns from the stands and opened fire, offering Hishinde combat over and over again. The hunter believed that a warrior must fight whenever combat presented itself, but none of the armed guests were worthy targets. Hishinde removed its mask, showing a green face with orange zigzag marks beneath the eyes, and accepted that the guests would have their fight but that there would be no victory that day. The shooters screamed and fired at the hunter as it moved through them, and the Bay-O-Net drone exploded over the hall during the fighting.
A Place Of No Honor
When the shooting stopped, Hishinde walked alone through a hall full of bodies. The conference was full of war but had not a single warrior, and its crowd was desperate for blood but afraid to bleed. The hunter had made a field of kills there but took no trophy from it, because none of the dead had earned a place in a trophy room. Instead it took only a fistful of Bay-O-Net conference badges as evidence, so that others would know not to waste their time on the conference. No human there learned the hunter's name, and it left the hall alive.
Weapons And Equipment
Hishinde relied on its cloak at the Bay-O-Net conference, and the device hid it in the crowded halls until the salesman's drone locked onto it. When the cloak failed, green energy crackled over its armor and the hunter became visible. Its pale mask carried three slash marks on one side of the brow and a small round mark on the other, and a thick fur mantle covered its shoulders above mesh netting and chest armor. Long dreadlocks hung below the mask, and a broad belt and a loincloth completed its outfit.
The hunter killed most of the guests at close range with its wristblades, and it had the blades extended as it walked through the hall at the end. It wore a gauntlet with a square keypad on one forearm, and during the shooting a red triangular targeting display appeared over one guest. Hishinde used none of the human weapons on display, even though the conference was full of rifles, pistols and shotguns. The only things it carried away were the conference badges it took as evidence, each with the Bay-O-Net name printed on it.
Conclusion
Hishinde was the Yautja hunter of "A Place of No Honor," Sarah Gailey and Fran Galán's story in the first issue of Predator: Black, White & Blood. Cloaked among the guests of the Bay-O-Net Inc. weaponry conference, it was exposed by a tracking drone during a sales demonstration and killed the salesman who had aimed it. It then killed the armed guests who fought back, found none of them worthy of a trophy, and walked out through the hall with only a handful of conference badges as evidence.
Appearances
- Predator: Black, White & Blood #1, "A Place of No Honor" by Sarah Gailey and Fran Galán (Marvel Comics, 9 July 2025)
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