Chol Von

Chol Von is a T'vaoan Kig-Yar and mate to Vek.

Biography
During the Human-Covenant War, Chol Von served as shipmistress of the missionary ship Joyous Discovery, which she renamed Paragon at the first opportunity during the Great Schism. At some point she captured a Phantom, killing two Sangheili in the process. She would later use it as her personal transport. After the collapse of the Covenant she lost her ship. She has four sons; Hiiq, Gon, Kij, and Laik, whom she was forced to take care of herself since her mate, Vek, had gone to Reynes to find tantalum deposits, something she considered cowardly.

Following the end of the war, Chol Von sought to create a united naval force to defend the Kig-Yar from outside threats. Avu Med 'Telcam, the leader of the Servants of the Abiding Truth, contracted Von to track down the battlecruiser Pious Inquisitor, previously stolen by another Kig-Yar, Sav Fel, and return the ship to the Abiding Truth. However, Von intended to seize the battlecruiser for herself instead, and use it as the backbone of her planned Kig-Yar navy. After gathering a crew from the port of Ap'ot and questioning Huz Mor-Kha with her lieutenant, Zim, Chol Von traveled to the Station of Constant Sustenance where she tracked down Eith Mor, a known associate of Sav Fel. She learned that Pious Inquisitor was last seen over Shaps III and headed there.

Eventually, Von and her crew discovered Pious Inquisitor and forcibly cut their way inside. However, the ship's resident Huragok, Sometimes Sinks, was highly apprehensive of the Kig-Yar and hindered with their attempts to use the battlecruiser's systems, even transitioning the ship to a location designated by its current owner, Staffan Sentzke. The slipspace jump uncoupled Pious Inquisitor from Von's ship, killing several of the Kig-Yar in the process. With Von and her crew locked down in different compartments of the ship, Sometimes Sinks offered the Kig-Yar the chance to leave, opening passages to one of the shuttle bays. However, Chol was determined to keep the ship even as it was boarded by the human special forces team Kilo-Five. The humans having killed several of Von's crew and bearing down on the bridge, Von ordered her crew to detonate the ship's plasma torpedo reserves, choosing to destroy Pious Inquisitor over leaving it to the humans. She and her remaining crew then made their way for a shuttle bay in order to escape.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Mortal Dictata