Bayhas Mati

Bayhas Mati
General Information
Culture	Old Ones
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Affiliation(s)	Metallurgic International
Profession	Robot Maintenance
Status	Deceased
Biological Information
Death	Sometime between 2055 and 2064
Cause of death	Long term complications caused by exposure to LuBor-6 and adverse reactions to gene therapy and polymer vascular replacements
Relatives
Family Members	Aamaal Mati (first husband; deceased) Wyatt Mahante (second husband) Bashar Mati (son) Unnamed stepchild

"Onwards and upwards! The start of great things!"

―Bayhas's motto

Bayhas Mati was an employee at Metallurgic International and the mother of Bashar Mati.

History

2030s

In 2037, Bayhas was a refugee fleeing from Kolkata.

2040s

In 2042 to Bayhas had a son, Bashar Mati, with Aamaal Mati, a decorated combat flier. In 2045 or 2046, she took her son to see his father teach the history of human airpower at the Air Combat Academy.

Unfortunately, Aamaal died defending Metallurgic International's claim on a Tantalum mine on June 5th, 2048, leaving Bayhas a single parent. During the next few years, she struggled to provide for Bashar, as her job at M. Int servicing mining robots for 1.5 basic income couldn't always cover food and rent, forcing them further into debt and hunger. With his mother unable to provide care as she had to work when she could and unable to afford childcare, Bashar became truant, a thief and a drug addict while still in junior high.

When Bayhas' arm and clavicle were crushed by a Lifter in a mine at Bridal Veil Falls, the foreman, telemetry, and Bashar all blamed her for her injury, despite Bayhas' insistence that the telemetry had been tampered with. She pushed her grievance up the ladder, until she finally wound up in Wyatt Mahante's office. He ordered an investigation, which proved the telemetry had been tampered with and validated Bayhas' claim, allowing her to receive the implants and cybernetics she needed.

2050s

In 2055, Bayhas began dating Wyatt. Bashar hated everything about Wyatt, wanting him gone. As Wyatt served on the board of the Explorer Museum, Bashar and another troubled boy named Star broke into the museum by hacking the security systems and began vandalizing the exhibits as an attack on Wyatt. He was stopped by a police bot when he became trapped in a mound of expanding foam. Fines and damages came to eighteen months of basic income, which would've brought Bashar's family to financial catastrophe. Unfortunately for Bashar, Wyatt willingly paid the bill.

A few months later, Bayhas and Wyatt became engaged. Bashar was infuriated that Bayhas was willing to remarry, doing everything he could to make life as hard for his mother as possible, including accusing her of being a gold digger to her face. It was only years later that she did marry Wyatt for his money, not for her sake, but for Bashar's.

After Bashar attended a Grey Swarms concert was subdued during a drug-fueled rage and left in a coma. Bayhas was at his bedside when he woke up. As much as Bashar wanted to continue his defiance of her, he found himself unable to when she warmly took his hand into hers. She confided in Bashar that he was the only reason she continued living after the death of his father and asked why he was living like no one loved him, and pointed out that if Bashar died, all of her hopes and dreams, and those of his father, would die with him. Bashar broke down, agreeing to go into rehab.

After Bashed finished his course at rehab, Bayhas fought for his readmission into school, where he needed to attend eight weeks of summer school to make up for all the courses I'd flunked. Bashar didn't mind this, welcoming the newfound structure in his life. Three months post-rehab, Bashar had aced summer school and was soon to enter the tenth grade. As a reward for his studies and sobriety, Bayhas and Wyatt gave him a Fullerton Labs AstroProdigy and took him on a camping trip in Monument Valley. While Wyatt slept, Bashar and his mother watched the Perseids overhead. When his mother asked him to teach you the constellations, Bashar launched the AstroProdigy and pretended to be a professor, explaining each star group as the drone magnified them. Later, he had it zoom in on the Odyssey, allowing them to see the robots building it in orbit. Bashar then spoke about the spaceship, which led him onto the robots that Faro, Metallurgic and other corporations had begun sending up to mine helium-3 from the moon and metals from the asteroid belt. Bashar later proclaimed that he wanted to be an aerospace engineer, to make the sorts of machines we'd been talking about: robots to gather resources in the solar system, maybe even ones that could travel to other stars and colonize new worlds. Bayhas told her son that that was what he will do, that "[You] will write the story of [their] family across the stars."

Bashar attended and graduated from Stanford University, going straight into a job as an Aerospace Control Engineer at Faro Automated Solutions. He waited until graduation day to tell his mother in person, who was extremely proud of him. Bashar would call his mother once or twice a week, enthusing about his latest project or to complain about workplace politics. Unbeknownst to Bashar, Bayhas had been diagnosed a year after the incident at Bridal Veil Falls, the exposure to LuBor-6 from the solvents she used to keep robot joints clear had poisoned her, leading to long-term complications, and that she had experienced adverse reactions to gene therapy and polymer vascular replacements, as well as six months of mobile dialysis. Wyatt kept all this secret from her son in order to not distract him from his work. Regardless, Bayhas and Wyatt joined Bashar as they watched his first payloud, a seeker/extractor with an upgraded propulsion system he'd designed, was launched from Bryce Orbital, destined for M89282, an asteroid rich in ruthenium and tungsten. As they watched it rise into the sky, Bayhas took her son's hand and said, "You have written the story of our family across the stars."

Bayhas was later rushed to Denver General. Wyatt made a call to Bashar, informing him of the situation. By the time Bashar arrived, Bayhas had already fallen into a coma by his arrival. A holo-doc informed Bashar about his mother's condition. Wyatt insisted that Bashar return to work, as that's what his mother would've wanted, and that he would keep him informed. However, Bashar refused, staying at his mother's bedside just as she had done for him years before. Unfortunately, after eight days in a coma, Bayhas was pronounced dead.

Legacy

Following his mother's funeral, Bashar returned to work at FAS, but his results fell. When his supervisor called him in for an emergency disciplinary review, Bashar snapped and shouted at him, then broke down, sobbing uncontrollably. Having been escorted outside by sec-drones, an alert on his Focus indicated that he should go home for the day, then report for a disciplinary review on Monday. Instead, Bashar took a LifeSpin to Pioneer Park, where he purchased many drugs, including Duster, Snake, Skydive, and Overcast, but no Razorwing. As he was ignoring calls and missed his disciplinary review, a friend came to Bashar's home and saw what was happening, where he staged a one-man intervention. Bashar agreed to return to treatment.

After learning about the Faro Plague and how the world would soon end, Bashar traveled to Wyatt's cottage at Lake Powell with a duffle full of drugs, planning to overdose and leave his corpse to rot and for Wyatt to find. However, after a change of heart, Bashar chose to use the Eternity technology he had access to in order to tell his story, even if no one would be around to appreciate it. He planned that after his tour was finished, he would return to Wyatt's cottage to commit suicide as intended. However, on the second to last day of his tour, he returned to the cottage and immediately incinerated the drugs, as he knew how his mother felt about him and drugs, promising her that he would die clean. Having no reason to believe that his story will ever be read, he took comfort in the truth of the story remaining: That once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there lived a boy named Bashar who loved his mother very, very much.

Despite Bashar's doubt that anyone would ever be able to read his Vantage Points and about Bayhas, they were discovered by Aloy after nearly 1,000 years.