Ta Kowasa

Stripped of his armor, Ta Kowasa looks like a little octopus whose mouth is formed from striped tentacles, the standard shape for his race. As with every Kur, he is seldom seen without the looming exosuit he needs to function off-world.

Ruthlessness runs through him. As Kur nature dictates, he holds no compassion for any living thing and acts with total brutality, working his suit's mechanical arms to crush Aja's head and seeking to hollow out Jiji by siphoning off every last bit of his ki.

During the Sumer campaign Ta Kowasa helped feed captured women to a Big Mama for exosuit production, one product even mirroring the Sumerians' god. He was afterward stationed over the male Sumerians herded together as offerings, and when Bamora, Banga, Tome, and Aja burst in toward the warp gate pyramid, he and Ta Komeshi held down Tome and Aja. Banga broke up the assault in the god exosuit, and Ta Kowasa later entered the pyramid to discover she had already warped Bamora to Earth.

On Earth the Advance Unit hit the Serpo and broke apart to ambush their targets one by one, with Ta Kowasa joining Hastur's group to chase Okarun. He pinned the boy's battered body so the jet-booster pilot could tear out his kintama, and meant to drag him off for dissection until Mantisian sliced through the arms holding him, after which the squad withdrew rather than fight. With the warp gate running, he kept watch in their Empty Space beside the rest of the unit, Suda Ko, Ta Komeshi, Takonoka Ru Patcho, and the mantis exosuit pilot among them.

Through the melee against Aira, Jiji, and Mantisian, his clamping arms kept teeing up rifle shots for Suda Ko, yet Aira's Acrobatic Silky hair repeatedly twisted his grip back on him. The end arrived when he latched onto Jiji to drain the boy's power into his suit. Jiji's flood of ki overheated the machine until it blew, and ditching the wrecked shell left him sidelined for the remainder of the fight. Nothing is recorded of him afterward, but since a Kur cannot last on an alien world without an exosuit, death under Earth's gravity is the probable outcome.