Disclaimer: I do not own any character in this story, except those not in the movie, Chronicles of Riddick. And Forcelances are from the TV show Andromeda.
Aerinha, first among warriors, daughter of Vacco and Dame Vacco, the only woman in the armada, the most decorated warrior in the armada besides her father, the only Necromunger without the mark, the only Necromunger ever born into the faith, and the most powerful one of them all.
Because she was born into the faith, she was afforded certain powers that the Lord Marshall could only dream of obtaining. Telekinesis, the power to move objects and people with the power of your mind, Levitation became apart of her abilities after she learned that she could make people and objects appear to float, and Telepathy, the power the read peoples minds, so she always seemed to know what was coming next and it made her move like the wind. Also, she has the ability to make her eyes change from a regular person's eyes to Riddick's night vision, even the color, plus she had a heightened sense of hearing so she could hear if people were trying to sneak up on her.
By the time that she and the Necromungers landed on Helion Prime, Aerinha was twenty years old, five foot nine inches tall, had long blonde hair, not being allowed to ever cut her hair by the rules of her faith, which always stayed in a braid for convenience, weighed around a hundred and fifty pounds with her specially made armor on, and had killed nearly two thousand men, women, and children, a hazard of being a Necromunger warrior. From every race of man that her and her people had decimated, she had learned a new method of fighting, since she had been doing it ever since she was a small child, learning new techniques came easily to her, and was one of the top three fighters in the faith.
The only person to have ever beaten her was her father, but that was because he was her teacher and she was never deemed worthy enough to fight against the Lord Marshall because she was a girl. Being born a female automatically made it to where she would never be allowed to take the thrown, even if she managed to kill the current Lord Marshall, or was named his successor. The most that she could ever hope for was that one day she would be named first among commanders, and was the one to bring glory to the Lord Marshall through her abilities.
While most of the men were trained to fight only as a last resort and were all given guns, Aerinha and a select few chose to fight first and kill with their hands, not a machine. Ioga, the one with the blade in his back, was Aerinha's friend and fighting partner when it came to training. They always had eachothers' backs, and that's why they had survived as long as they did.
Ioga had his two hammer axes which could rip a man in two in a minute flat, but they were far too heavy for Aerinha to attempt to train with, so she stuck to swords, blades, shivs, and forcelances. When she stepped onto a battle field, she looked like a walking armament. She had her two double edge swords on her back in their cross sheaths, two blades, one on each side, hanging on the outside of her thighs, two shivs tucked into her boot tops for just in case, and her two forcelances were hidden on her backside, just under her swords, so she could get to them when she needed them. She rarely ever used her forcelances because they doubled as guns and staves, plus she couldn't used both of them at the same time as was her style of fighting.
It was very strange, Aerinha's birth. Dame Vacco had been pregnant when she had been converted, but not even she had known, it wasn't until she had been converted and was too far along that anyone found out, and then she ended up giving birth to Aerinha. She was the first and only child ever born into this faith, so it was believed that she wouldn't need the mark to signify that she was a Necromunger, but as she grew older, she was able to blend in better with the humans more than her own people, and she wouldn't accept the mark, so she was never given it. None of the Necromungers could make her take the mark, many had tried, and even the Purifier decided after she had killed the tenth warrior that she didn't need it and she was a true Necromunger warrior without it.
That night when the armada landed on Helion Prime, Aerinha and Ioga were separated and so while he was focusing on killing Imam, Aerinha was across town filtering out shelters and bringing the captives to the meeting place to be converted or killed later. Riddick had no knowledge of her existence, or that the man that he now vowed to kill was her dearest friend. The blade that he used to kill Ioga with, was a blade that Aerinha had put there herself the day that she met him, when she was being forced to take the mark. It didn't kill him like she had planned, instead, it made them friends.