khika's story

Khika was a slightly different matoran. even before it 
was striped, her mask was not deep blue, but a very pale 
translucent blue.

She worked as an apprentice to Marka in the shipyards,
always coming up with new ideas to make the boats faster,
lighter, or stronger. Marka wasn't exactly too grateful
for Khika's help, but humored her more or less anyway.

in her spare time, she was a true adrenaline junkie. her
engineering and hydrodynamics skills were not just lost
after she left the shipyard for the day. she would spend
countless hours of the night in her workshop next to her
hut, creating new land and water speeders that would 
later be very useful for messenger services during 
the bohrok attacks, rahkshi onslaught, and even through 
the exodus to metru-nui.

one day she was testing a new speeder prototype in the 
bay when she lost control of it and accidentally
crashed into the main column supporting turaga Nokama's
hut. the crash sent the entire lily pad structure into
roughly a 45-degree agle, and the column finally snapped
the next day, sinking the entire hut along with a few 
repair workers. Khika was immediately exiled for 
disrupting the unity and peace of the koro, and told
outright that Ga-koro would be better off without any of 
her outlandish new vehicles. her mask was striped with
the regular blue of normal ga-koronan kanohi, furtherly
reminding her of her difference from the others.

the normal exiling process is a two-day affair. the
unfortunate matoran is berated, striped and cast out
from the koro in front of all their former friends the
first day. on the evening of the second day, the exile's
posessions are sunk, buried, frozen, or burnt, and the
other matoran are ordered to immediately forget the
very existence of the exile. this is called "the great
forgettance." Khika was aware of this ceremony as 
she had seen it before multiple times. 
so on the eve of the first day of her exile, 
khika boldly crept back into the village under cover of 
night, detatched her hut and workshop from the rest of
the koro, hooked it up to her favorite speeder, and
shot off into the dark, giggling.

now in pei-wahi, Khika is welcomed for her innovative
ideas, and greatly treasured for her speeders, which
have helped the exiles keep better track of their 
roaming lands. she has also helped Mahana nuva, now
calling herself mahlani, improve her old chopper for
better speed and comfort.