Koichi
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Koichi is a young Hylotl usually found with all three eyes focused on a book. He's super-keen to learn everything he can; not just about Hylotl history, but about all the known species in the universe. This thirst for knowledge drives him to explore, often putting him unwittingly in harm's way as he finds himself crawling through some forgotten booby-trapped tomb because he was too busy staring at the heiroglyphs. And for a rather meek and mousy fellow whose idea of excitement is a trivia night, this is less than ideal. So far, someone's always come along to pull him out of danger.
He seems to get especially flustered around the Floran Nuru and tries in his own geeky way to impress them, no doubt having romantic feelings for Nuru.
Encounters
Grand Pagoda Library
The player first meets Koichi at the Grand Pagoda Library, as part of the "Fetch the Hylotl Artifact" quest. Koichi had been researching great Hylotl thinkers in the once lost library, but found himself in the crosshairs of a large force of Occasus Cult members led by Asra Nox. Koichi barricaded himself in the Library's deepest levels, holding off the Cult. When the player arrives, Koichi uses the Library's hologram systems to track and guide them, unlocking doorways and passages to help them through.
Once the player has made it past Asra Nox, they meet Koichi proper, who decides to tag along and set up shop in a more... safe environment.
Outpost
Once rescued from the Library, Koichi sets up camp at the Outpost just outside the Ark, where he plans his new passion: a museum dedicated to the many species of the cosmos. But being not exactly the adventuring type, especially so soon after fleeing for his life from a mob of homicidal Cultists, Koichi would rather the gathering of those last few objects be done by someone else. With a finder's fee offered, of course.
This begins a series of Quests that can be tackled relatively quickly, one after the other. If the player has been diligently scanning everything they encounter with the Matter Manipulator, simple access to a Pixel Printer could get several, if not all of them done in rapid succession.
Once the final piece is in place, Koichi rewards the player with the powerful Hokucide sword. Koichi's Museum is also made available to visit via the Teleporter at the 2 Stop Teleshop.
Codexes
Trivia
- Koichi's name is a compound of the japanese words "ko", meaning (among other things) "clear, bright, happiness, and light", and "ichi" which means "one". Therefore meaning that one possible interpretation of his name would be "bright one" or "light one".
- The amount of fins depicted on Koichi's head may be inconsistent. The shading of his sprites, portrait, and even his early high-res art imply that the two visible fins are coming out of the side of his head. It would make sense for the other fins to be poking out over the other side, but they are never seen in any of these depictions. It may just be that Koichi was intended to have only the two visible fins, as the official artwork by Lili Ibrahim ended up depicting him with just two lined down the middle of the back of his head.
- Several pieces of early concept art showed appendages coming from both sides of his head[1][2], so that is likely what was intended before they were seemingly forgotten by GeorgeV when he was creating the portrait sprite.[3] It seems that the missing fins were never noticed, and their continued absence eventually resulted in Lili Ibrahim drawing Koichi with only two fins instead of the four that the concept artists likely intended.
- Koichi wears headphones around his neck, but has no visible ears or other such organs on his head to put them over. This is likely because Hylotl are based on salamanders, which have no external structures for hearing.[4]
- Koichi is featured on the icon of the achievement titled "The Wise".
Gallery
Koichi's talking portrait
Koichi's idle animation
An early Koichi running animation[5]
Koichi's profile
- ↑ https://playstarbound.com/25-march-who-could-they-be/
- ↑ https://playstarbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/concept_collage_smaller.png
- ↑ https://playstarbound.com/10th-of-april-behold-a-blogpost/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander#Hearing
- ↑ https://playstarbound.com/9th-of-april-more-npcs-and-more-progress/
- ↑ https://playstarbound.com/17th-of-april-npc-art/
